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TODAY IN HISTORY

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HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2022

Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of three people, including the perpetrator.

2
2017

China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.

3
2016

The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.

4
2009

NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.

5
2003

In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.

6
1999

The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.

7
1998

Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

8
1998

Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

9
1996

Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.

10
1993

NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine)

born in Newark

1971 Janet Evans

American swimmer (Olympic gold 400m

1971 Raul Marquez

Mexican-American boxer (Olympic-92)

1971 Shane Andrews

infielder (Montreal Expos)

1970 Rick Recht

Jewish-American rock singer-songwriter ("Tear Down The Walls")

1969 Jack Black

American actor (High Fidelity; Kung Fu Panda)

1969 Jason Priestley

Canadian-American actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)

1969 Mary McCartney

British photographer and daughter of Beatle Paul and Linda McCartney

1968 Billy Boyd

Scottish actor (Seed of Chucky)

1968 Tom Fitzgerald

American ice hockey right wing (NY Islanders

1967 Frederick Kesner

Philippine-born Australian poet

1966 Jerry Fehily

Irish drummer (Hothouse Flowers - "Don't Go"; "Thing Of Beauty")

1966 Priya Dutt

Indian social worker and politician

1965 Satoshi Tajiri

Japanese video game designer (Game Freak

1964 Lee Janzen

American golfer (US Open 1993

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