Famous Events
- 1964 - The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, touching off rock n rolls British invasion.
- 1944 - Germany launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
- 1812 - Author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.
- 1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
- 1974 - The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain.
- 1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk.
- 1986 - Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of family rule.
- 1990 - The Soviet Unions Communist Party agreed to let other political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power.
- 1991 - The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haitis first democratically elected president.
- 1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 1998 - It was announced that Carl Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, had died from complications of lung cancer at age 51.
- 1999 - Jordans King Hussein died of cancer at age 63.