- 1962] One picture is worth a thousand words: Reconnaissance photos reveal missile bases in Cuba...
- 1963] Curtains: The last edition of The New York Daily Mirror hits the newstands...
- 1969] Truly Amazin': The New York Mets win their 1st World Series as a harmless fly ball hit by future Mets manager Davey Johnson drops into Cleon Jones' glove: I watched all the action in VP/GM Perry S. Ury's office at WRKO...
- 1978] The Pope of all Popes: Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope, taking the name John Paul II...
- 1987] Baby Jessica: Rescuers free 'Baby Jessica' (McClure) from the Midland (TX) well she fell in. Jessica, 18-months old, was trapped for 58 hours yet survived...
- 1995] Worth a million?: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan leads the "Million Man March" in Washington, D.C...
- 1997] "Happy Trails": Author James Michener dies of kidney failure at 90...2004] Pierre Salinger, former journalist and JFK press secretary dies of heart failure at 79...2007] Actress Deborah Kerr dies from the complications of Parkinson's disease at 86...
- 2000] Wedding Bells: Chevron announces that it's buying Texaco for $35 billion...
- 2000] Senate Tragedy: Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan and his son are killed in a plane crash south of St. Louis...
- 2002] Something else to worry about: The White House announces that North Korea has disclosed it has a nuclear weapons program...
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