- 1789] The crew of the British ship Bounty set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific...
- 1914] W.H. Carrier patents the design of his air conditioner...
- 1947] A 6-man expedition sails from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named Kon-Tiki on a 101 day journey across the Pacific to Polynesia...
- 1959] "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" fades to black on CBS-TV. The show started on TV in 1949...
- 1965] The "My Name is Barbra" special scores huge numbers for CBS-TV...
- 1965] Lindsey Nelson does the Mets game from a gondola, hanging 208 feet above the field, from the roof of the Astrodome...
- 1975] Two Beatles on the tube this night: Ringo Starr on "The Smothers Brothers" and John Lennon on "The Tonight Show"...
- 1985] Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager for the 4th time (do you see a pattern developing?)...
- 1994] Former CIA operative Aldrich Ames, a double-spy for the Soviets is sentenced to life in prison without parole...
- 2004] The 1st photos of Abu Ghraib are shown on "60 Minutes"...
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