1944-Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1944-Jean-Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris France
1951-Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1964-"From Russia With Love" premieres in U.S.
1969-Walt Disney World construction begins
1977-2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1977-NYC fines George Willig 1¢ for each of 110 stories of the World Trade Center he climbed
1980-South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1984-Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
1985-Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1986-President Reagan orders 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
1990-Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1994-Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1997-First all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997-Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO