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Sunday, 21 June 2026
Aug 11 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz 
Aug 12 Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
Aug 12 Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86
Aug 13 Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67.
Aug 14 Gale Sondergaard, actress (Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86.
Aug 15 Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68.
Aug 16 Singer Madonna weds actor Sean Penn
Aug 17 Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR.
Aug 17 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
Aug 19 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei.
Aug 20 Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
Aug 20 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US.
Aug 21 Near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area.
Aug 21 Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.
Aug 22 Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies
Aug 23 In the Southern Xinjiang, China region a 7.3 quake killed at least 71, 162 injured, about 15000 homeless and about 85 percent of the buildings destroyed in the Wuqia-Shufu area.
Aug 23 Paul Hornung awarded $1160000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
Aug 23 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3 29.46) in Berlin
Aug 24 Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], US composer, dies at 78
Aug 24 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
Aug 25 Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13
Aug 25 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
Aug 26 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76
Aug 26 Ryan White, the 13-year-old AIDS patient barred from attending school in Kokomo, Indiana, begins attending middle school via computer.
Aug 27 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
Aug 28 Launch of Aussat, Australia's inaugural domestic communications satellite.
Aug 28 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
Aug 29 Alexander Abramsky, composer, dies at 87.
Aug 29 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission.
Aug 31 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA
Sep 01 After 73 years the wreck of the 'Titanic' is are discovered by Dr Robert Ballard
Sep 01 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
Sep 02 A joint US-French expedition locates the wreckage of the ill-fated HMS Titanic.
Sep 02 Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star, dies at 64.
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