1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel

1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"

1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner

1985 Eli Hosen is born

1989 Calgary Flames become first NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2

1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii) crowned Miss America 1992

1996 York - Durham Heritage Railway commences operation over the former CN line between Uxbridge and Stouffville, Ont.

1812 Napoleon enters Moscow, during his invasion of Russia

1886 Typewriter ribbons patented in the United States

1992 UN troops land in Somalia, Africa, to stabalise the country and provide aid

1769 The birth of Baron von Humboldt, German naturalist

1909 The birth of Peter Scott, British naturalist and artist

2005 September 16 - Largest UN World Summit in history, held in New York City.

2005 Death of Robert Wise, American film director (b. 1914)

2007 The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program."

2007 Viktor Zubkov is approved as the new Prime Minister of Russia after a vote in the Duma.

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