Page 7: Historical Events In August - 05

1965  Cook Islands in South Pacific granted internal self-government by New Zealand   

1965  Linda McGill is recorded as becoming inaugural Australian woman to swim the English Channel.   

1966  Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march   

1966  Austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies.   

1968  Luther Perkins American guitarist.   

1969  Mariner 7 flies past Mars.   

1971  Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74.   

1972  Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71   

1973  USSR launches Mars 6   

1974  Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways.   

1976  Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88.   

1977  Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87.   

1978  Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79.   

1981  Pres Regan fires 11500 air traffic controllers on strike   

1982  Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72.   

1983  Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66   

1984  Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66.   

1985  Flexible-wing glider altitude record set.   

1985  Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67   

1987  Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79   

1988  Mario Biaggi politician convicted of racketeering   

1989  Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68.   

1990  Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies   

1991  Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record in Malmo Sweden   

1991  Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82.   

1992  Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38.   

1994  Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39   

1995  Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73   

1996  Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72   

1997  Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61   

2000  Sir Alec Guinness, revered as one of Britain's most versatile actors, dies at 86   

2011  Juno, the inaugural solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station   

2011  NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons   

2011  Svalbard Polar Bear Attack (2011)   

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1301  Edmund of woodstock: 1st earl of kent, english politician   

1397  Guillaume dufay: Franco-flemish composer and theorist   

1461  Alexander jagiellon: Grand duke of lithuania   

1540  Joseph justice scaliger: Proposed julian dating   

1604  John eliot: "apostle to indians," bible translator, baptized   

1607  Philipp friedrich boddecker: Composer   

1623  Antonio cesti: Composer   

1624  William: Jamestown va, 1st black child born in english america   

0882  Death of King louis iii of france: King louis iii of france (b. 863)   

1063  Death of Gruffydd ap llywelyn: King of gwynedd   

1157  Dirk vi: Count of holland,   

1364  Emperor kogon of japan: Emperor kogon of japan (b. 1313)   

1572  Death of Isaac luria: Palestinian-born kabbalist (b. 1534)   

1579  Death of Stanislaus hosius: Polish catholic cardinal (b. 1504)   

1610  Death of Alonso garcía de ramón: Spanish soldier and twice royal governor of chile   

1644  Death of J henry alting: Theologist (statenvertaling),