On this day :
1988 Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland, 1761 Patriot Robert Barnwell is born, 1967 The Graduate opens in New York makes Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider famous, 1861 Trent crisis escalates, 1991 Soviet republics proclaim the Commonwealth of Independent States, 1980 Sunny von Bulow is found comatose, 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie Scotland, 1946 Earthquake sends tsunami toward Japan, 1958 De Gaulle elected, 1968 Apollo 8 departs for moons orbit, 1975 Carlos the Jackal attacks OPEC headquarters, 2001 Russell Crowe stars in A Beautiful Mind, 1799 William Wordsworth moves into Dove Cottage, 1996 Curious George cocreator Margret Rey dies, 1985 Harry Chapin earns a 1 hit with Cats In The Cradle, 1866 Indians massacre Fetterman and eighty soldiers, 1970 Nixon meets Elvis Presley, 1918 Hobey Baker killed in plane crash, 1969 Thailand announces plans to withdraw troops, 1972 Defense Department reports eight B52s lost during Linebacker II, 1915 Sir William Robertson is appointed chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945 Old Blood and Guts dies,
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