1962 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi

1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)

1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station

1967 USSR's Kosmos 186 and 188 complete the first automatic docking

1968 First Boeing 747 rolls out

1968 Supremes release "Love Child"

1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)

1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)

1977 Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album

1980 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

1981 Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics

1986 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov

1988 Andrei A Gromyko retires

1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer

1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension

1991 Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide is ousted

1928 Discovery of penicillin announced by Alexander Fleming

1990 The USSR and Israel resume diplomatic relations

1923 The birth of Deborah Kerr, English born film actress

2005 The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".

2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

2006 West Coast Eagles win the Australian Football League Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

2006 Nangpa La shootings

2007 Parliamentary re-elections occur in Ukraine after Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko dismisses Parliament.

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