1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station

1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon

1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere

1984 Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic

1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico

1990 A 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC

1990 Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics

1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands

1999 Trillium Rail takes over operation of 41 miles of industrial trackage in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula comprising sections of the Cayuga sub. and the Thorold, Canal, Grantham, Fonthill, Town Line and West Welland spurs. The lines will be operated by a Trillium subsidiary, the Port Colborne Terminal Railway.

1851 New York Times publishes for the first time

1927 The American CBS broacasting organisation is created

1934 Soviet Union admitted to the League of Nations

1989 Hungary begins transition to a Western style democracy

1993 Australian PM announces plans to make Australia a republic by 2001

1905 The birth of Greta Garbo, Swedish born film actress

2005 Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union and Gerhard Schröder of the Social Democratic Party both claim victory in the German federal election.

2005 Afghan parliamentary election

2007 The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates in the U.S by half a point (0.5%) for the first time since 2006 to ease the on-going panic in the financial markets due to the subprime crisis.

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