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1965  Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana results in the deaths of 75.   

1966  "The Monkees,"premier on NBC   

1966  Gemini XI launched for 71-hour flight   

1970  USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility.   

1971  Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63.   

1972  Two British trawlers sunk by Icelandic gunboats during the 'cod war'   

1972  William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77   

1973  Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77   

1974  Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)   

1977  Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60).   

1978  Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69.   

1979  Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935), dies.   

1980  Military coup in Turkey.   

1980  Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65.   

1982  Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89.   

1983  Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million   

1983  USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane.   

1984  Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident   

1985  Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds   

1986  240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange.   

1986  US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut.   

1986  Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75.   

1987  John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies   

1988  Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica.   

1988  Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74), dies at 78   

1989  Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37   

1990  Full sovereignity handed back to the newly unified German state   

1990  US, England, France, USSR, East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing the 2 Germanys to merge.   

1990  Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101   

1991  Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched.   

1991  Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies   

1992  Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60.   

1993  Charles Lamont, actor/director (Abbott and Costello movies), dies at 95   

1994  Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56.   

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1492  Lorenzo ii de' medici: Duke of urbino   

1494  Francois i of valois-angouleme: King of france (1515-47)   

1494  King francis i of france: King francis i of france (d. 1547)   

1559  Lodovico cardi da cigoli: Italian painter/architect   

1575  Henry hudson: England, navigator/explorer (hudson river)   

1605  William dugdale: English antiquarian   

1655  Sebastien de brossard: Composer   

1688  Ferdinand brokoff: Czech sculptor   

0352  Maximinus van trier: Bishop of trier/saint,   

0413  Death of Marcellinus of carthage: Christian saint   

1012  Guido van anderlecht: Flemish pilgrim/saint,   

1015  Lambert i with the beard: Count of leuven,   

1185  Andronicus i comnenus: Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched   

1213  Pedro ii: [el catolico], king of aragon,   

1362  Death of Innocent vi: [etienne aubert], pope (1352-62),   

1369  Blanche of lancaster: Wife of john of gaunt (b. 1345)