1989 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy.

1987 - Rock band U2 release the album The Joshua Tree.

The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.

1986 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

The hostage situation ends two days later.

1977 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages.

1976 - 42 people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.

1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

1967 - Josef Stalin 's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

1964 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.

1957 - Aleutian Islands register a 9.1 magnitude earthquake.

1954 - McCarthyism : CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, 'A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy ,' produced by Edward R.

The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.

1945 - World War II : Bombing of Tokyo - American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs.

Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. On 2003, an academic group called 'march 9' was established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence. Taha Hussein without the University permission.

1932 - The Egyptian University rector 'Ahmed Lotfy El-Said' resigned to protest against the transfer of Dr.

1916 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.

1862 - American Civil War : The first battle between two ironclad warships - In a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia the USS Monitor fights the CSS Virginia to a draw.

1847 - Mexican-American War : United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.

1842 - Giuseppe Verdi 's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

1841 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.

1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.

1765 - After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son.

1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.

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