The Country of Netherlands Antilles is Dissolved
The Caribbean Dutch dependency, also sometimes known as the Dutch Antilles, was formed in 1954.
Fijian Independence
The South Pacific Ocean island country had been ruled by the British since 1874.
Outer Space Treaty is Enforced
The third president of Egypt, Sadat was killed by members of the terrorist group Takfir Wal-Hajira during a parade held to commemorate the 8th anniversary of Operation Badr. The assassination is thought to be a result of
The Tokyo Summer Olympics Begin
93 countries participated in the first Olympics to be held in Asia. As a tribute to the horrors of the Second World War, Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb destroyed the city, was chosen as the torchbearer to light the Olympic flame during the opening. T
United Airlines Boeing 247 explosion
In one of the oldest unsolved cases in aviation history, the airplane which was flying from Newark, New Jersey to Oakland California exploded mid-air and crashed near Chesterton, Indiana.
- 1979 Mýa
American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, actress
- 1969 Brett Favre
American football player
- 1930 Harold Pinter
English playwright, screenwriter, director, actor, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1861 Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1813 Giuseppe Verdi Italian composer
- 2010 Solomon Burke American singer-songwriter
- 2009 Stephen Gately
Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, actor
- 2004 Christopher Reeve
American actor
- 1985 Orson Welles
American actor, director, producer, screenwriter
- 1875 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Russian poet, author, playwright
