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1967  Nat Pendleton, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless), dies at 72   

1968  19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City.   

1968  Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is inaugural woman to light Olympic flame.   

1969  Soyuz 7 is launched   

1969  Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage   

1969  Serge Poliakoff, Russ/French painter, dies   

1971  Dean G Acheson, US foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78   

1972  46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk   

1972  Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole.   

1973  Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP   

1974  Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74   

1976  4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight   

1976  Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party.   

1977  4th test of the space shuttle Enterprise.   

1977  US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to U of Calif Med School   

1977  Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81   

1978  Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington   

1979  Celia Lovsky, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek), dies at 82   

1980  Ships of the Amphibious Force, Sixth Fleet, including Guadalcanal, began assisting the victims of the massive earthquake which devastated the Algerian city of Al Asnam.   

1982  38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon, Alaska (state record).   

1982  Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer, dies at 73   

1983  Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61.   

1984  IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying.   

1985  Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission.   

1985  Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.   

1985  Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75.   

1986  Queen Elizabeth II became the inaugural British monarch to visit China   

1987  Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100.   

1988  Ken Murray, actor (Bill and Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85   

1989  Franco, [Francis Luambo/"Makiadi"], Zaire composer/music, dies at 51.   

1990  Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies   

1991  Aline MacMahon, US actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92   

1992  Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain   

1992  Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], actor/writer (Farce Major), dies   

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1350  Dimitri "donskoi" ivanovitch: Great monarch of vladimir-soezdal   

1350  Dmitry donskoy: Grand prince of moscovy   

1490  Bernardo pisano: Composer   

1537  Edward vi: Tudor, king of england (1547-53)   

1558  Jacques sirmond: French scholar and jesuit   

1558  Archduke maximilian iii of austria: Archduke maximilian iii of austria (d. 1618)   

1576  Thomas dudley: English-born american colonial magistrate   

1602  William chillingworth: English religious leader   

0632  Death of Edwin of deira: King of northumbria and bretwalda   

0638  Death of Honorius i: [dux plebis], italian pope,   

0642  Johannes iv: Dalmatisch pope (640-42),   

1093  Death of Robrecht de fries: Earl of flanders (1071-93),   

1095  Margrave leopold ii of austria: Margrave leopold ii of austria (b. 1050)   

1176  William d'aubigny: 1st earl of arundel, english politician   

1320  Death of Michael ix paleologi: Emperor of byzantine (1295-1320),   

1343  Death of Reinald ii: Duke of gelre,