1971 Police storm the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, ending a four-day siege that killed 43 people.

1971 The World Hockey Association is founded.

1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for the 1976 Olympics

1976 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight (5m28s)

1977 2nd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise

1977 Leopold Stokowski symphonic conductor, dies in England, at 95

1977 Symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski dies in Hampshire, England, at age 95.

1977 The first TV viewer discretion warning-Soap

1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr)

1981 33rd Emmy Awards (Hill Street Blues big winner)

1981 John McEnroe beats Bj”rn B”rg for US Open title

1981 William Loeb publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75

1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain

1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game

1982 Philip Ober actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80

1983 US mint strikes first gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)

1984 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad

1985 John Williams introduces the new Today Show theme

1986 Kellye Cash (Miss Tennessee) crowned Miss America

1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours

1988 Hurricane Gilbert becomes strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere

1989 Fay Vincent succeeds the late A. Bartlett Giamatti as commissioner of Major League Baseball.

1990 Iraqi troops storm the residence of French ambassador in Kuwait

1990 Law and Order debuts on NBC-TV.

1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter

1991 A 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium

1998 Former Alabama Governor George Wallace dies at age 79.

1759 British defeat French forces at the Battle of Quebec, Canada

1788 New York becomes the capital of the United States (later replaced by Washington)

1942 German forces begin attack on Stalingrad

1993 Israel and the PLO sign historic peace agreement at the White House, USA

1905 The birth of Claudette Colbert, French actress

1944 The birth of Jacqueline Bisset, English actress

2006 The Dawson College Shooting occurs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, leaving one student dead and 19 others injured.

2006 The solar system's largest dwarf planet, designated until now as 2003 UB313, is officially named "Eris"; its satellite is now known as "Dysnomia".

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