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1980  US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships   

1980  Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies   

1982  Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93.   

1983  STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad   

1983  US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination.   

1985  5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo   

1985  NASA launches space vehicle S-209   

1985  Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79.   

1986  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts).   

1986  Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies.   

1987  Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1336 yds 1'3")   

1987  Michael Andretti runs quickest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH).   

1987  Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79.   

1988  Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo.   

1988  System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC).   

1988  Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50.   

1989  NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24.   

1990  Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait.   

1990  Iraq invades Kuwait   

1990  Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm   

1991  Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges.   

1991  Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA.   

1991  Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera and Richard Cohen   

1992  Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies   

2005  Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive   

2012  23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan   

2013  40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria   

2017  inaugural successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature"   

2017  US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them.   

2017  Great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements.   

2017  New larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created   

2018  Apple is recorded as becoming the inaugural American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.   

2018  Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh   

2018  Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church.   

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1455  Johan cicero: Elect of brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  Theodor zwinger: Swiss scholar   

1627  Samuel dircksz van hoogstraten: Dutch painter   

1632  Kaspar von stieler: German poet (teutsche wolredner)   

1672  Johann jakob scheuchzer: Swiss scholar   

1674  Philip ii: Duke of orléans, regent of france   

1696  Mahmud i: Sultan of ottoman (turkey) (1730-54)/fought austria & russia   

1703  Lorenzo ricci: Italian jesuit leader   

0257  Stefanus i: Bishop of rome (254-57)/heretic fighter,   

0640  Death of Severinus: Italian pope (640),   

0686  Death of John v: 1st greeks-syrian pope (685-86),   

0924  Death of Ælfweard of wessex: Ælfweard of wessex   

1002  Death of Abu amir mohammed ibn abd allah ibn mohammed ibn abi amir:   

1075  Death of John viii xiphilinus: Theologian/patriarch of constantinople,   

1100  Death of William ii: [rufus], king of england, shot in new forest at 44   

1222  Death of Count raymond vi of toulouse: Count raymond vi of toulouse (b. 1156)