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1963  Jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies   

1965  Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74   

1966  USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum   

1967  Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55   

1968  Launch of Apollo 8 with Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. as Command Module Pilot. During the mission Lovell was one of the inaugural two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasted 6 days and 3 hours, and included 10 moon orbits. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10)   

1968  Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage   

1969  Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show).   

1970  WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting   

1971  UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general.   

1972  Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany   

1972  Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70.   

1973  Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US and USSR meet in Geneva   

1974  Richard Long, actor (Nanny and Professor), dies at 47.   

1975  inaugural New York Jet to gain 1000 yards rushing (John Riggins).   

1975  "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances.   

1975  William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61   

1976  UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child.   

1976  20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins   

1976  Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies.   

1978  Police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder.   

1979  Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game.   

1979  Bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five and one), dies.   

1980  Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90   

1983  Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan.   

1983  Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73   

1984  USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come   

1985  ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA   

1986  Over 50000 students demonstrate in Shanghai's Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China.   

1987  3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man.   

1987  Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir   

1987  Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies.   

1988  After a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut return to Earth.   

1988  Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine   

1988  Pan Am "Flight 103" explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270.   

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1117  Thomas becket: Archbishop of canterbury   

1401  Tommaso masaccio: Italian painter   

1518  Mark van vaernewijck: Flemish nobleman/politician   

1537  Johan iii: King of sweden (1569-92)   

1596  Petro mohyla: Moldovan orthodox metropolitan bishop of kiev and galicia   

1603  Roger williams: English theologian and colonist   

1616  Pietro andrea ziani: Composer   

1628  Samuel friedrich capricornus: Composer   

0072  Death of Thomas the apostle: Thomas the apostle   

0918  Conrad i: Duke of franconia/german king (911-918),   

1295  Marguerite berenger of provence: Wife of louis ix of france (bc. 1221)   

1308  Henry i: The child, 1st landgrave of hessen (1256-1308),   

1375  Giovanni boccaccio: Italian poet (vita di dante),   

1504  Death of Bertold von henneberg-römhild: German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)   

1549  Marguerite of navarre: Wife of henry ii of navarre (b. 1492)   

1579  Vicente masip: Spanish painter