Pan Am ceases operations
The Pan American World Airways, the largest airline in the United States began operations in October 1927.
China adopts its current constitution
The Constitution of the People’s Republic of China replaced the Constitutions of 1954, 1975, and 1978.
Led Zeppelin disbands
The British rock band announced that it was disbanding 12 years after coming on the music scene after the death of drummer John Bonham.
Dianne Feinstein became the first female mayor of San Francisco
A United States Senator from California, Feinstein became the 38th mayor of San Francisco after the murder of George Moscone.
First Sunday paper published
The Observer, a British newspaper became the first newspaper in the world to be published and read on a Sunday.
- 1969 Jay-Z
American rapper, producer, actor, co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records - 1964 Marisa Tomei
American actress - 1949 Jeff Bridges
American actor, singer, producer - 1923 Charles Keating
American lawyer, businessman - 1892 Francisco Franco
Spanish general, politician, Caudillo of Spain
- 1993 Frank Zappa
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer - 1976 Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, pianist - 1975 Hannah Arendt
German/American theorist, philosopher - 1893 John Tyndall
British physicist - 1123 Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician, astronomer, poet
