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1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became inaugural woman to walk in space. 
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1986 Theodore H "Ted" Lyons, pitcher (Chic White Sox), dies at 85
1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1987 Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries.
1990 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at San Diego Padre game.
1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute.
1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (Los Angeles).
1991 Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70.
1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain.
1992 Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 78.
1993 Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday.
1994 John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67.
1995 Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62.
1996 Raymond O'Malley, teacher, dies at 87
1997 Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies at 84
2010 Wikileaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics begin.
2014 Israeli airstrike results in the deaths of leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing, Salah Abu Hassanein
2017 Sperm counts have halved in last 40 years says research published in "Human Reproduction Update" journal.
2017 167 African migrants rescued by NGO Proactiva Open Arms off the coast of Libya, 13 perish
2017 Wildfires on France's Mediterranean coast near Bormes-les-Mimosas prompts evacuation of 12000 people.
2017 Israeli authorities remove new metal detectors from Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif after Palestinian protests amid rising tensions in Jerusalem.
2017 Ram Nath Kovind is recorded as becoming 14th President of India
2018 Liquid lake are discovered on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science"
2018 Georgian representative James Spencer steps down after being fooled into saying racial slurs on Sacha Baron Cohen 's "Who is America" programe
2018 Multiple suicide bombings and attacks by the Islamic State in Sweida and surrounding areas of Syria kill more than 200
2018 Somalia’s attorney general announces country's inaugural prosecution of female genital mutilation after death of a 10-year-old girl
2018 In this year, Pakistan general election: former cricketer Imran Khan claims most votes but not majority after vote marred by violence and bomb that results in the deaths of 31 people
2018 Scientists report the presence of a subglacial lake on Mars, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) below the southern polar ice cap and extending sideways about 20 km (12 mi), the inaugural known body of water on the planet
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] North Korean leader Kim Jong-un convenes an emergency meeting, declares a state of emergency, and orders the lockdown of Kaesong after a person suspected of having COVID-19 returned from South Korea. If confirmed, it would be the inaugural case to be officially acknowledged by North Korea
2021 Tunisian president Kais Saied formally takes power in the country, suspending the parliament and sacking the prime minister.
2023 US President Joe Biden signs proclamation establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located at two sites in Mississippi and one in Illinois; Emmett was a Black teen abducted and murdered in 1955 while vacationing in Mississippi, his mother Mamie pushed for civil rights legislation after his death [1] [2]
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