1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm

1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match

1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women

1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion

1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

1979 Bloodless coup in Central African Rep overthrows Emperor Bokassa I

1984 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut

1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players

1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest

1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification

1990 Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message

1997 RaiLink Southern Ontario takes over the operation of the former CN Hagersville subdivision between Nanticoke and Brantford including the Burford Spur. On December 15 the company took over the former CN Northern and Northwestern Spur.

1999 In Taiwan a 7.7 quake resulted in at least 2,297 people killed, 8,700 injured, 600,000 people left homeless and about 82,000 housing units damaged by the earthquake and larger aftershocks

2000 Terrorists launch a small missile at Britain's MI6 intelligence headquarters in London.

1519 Ferdinand Magellan left Spain on his around the world voyage

1946 First ever Cannes film festival

1967 Queen Elizabeth II (aka QE2) launched

1878 The birth of Upton Sinclair, American novelist

1934 The birth of Sophia Loren, Italian born film actress

2005 Death of Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908)

2006 The CW Television Network (a merger of The WB and UPN) officially begins operations.

2007 Opening of the 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures, in the city of Monterrey, Mexico.

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