| 1999 | A federal judge orders American Airlines pilots back to work after their sickout grounds 2500 flights, stranding 200,000 travelers and crippling cargo carriers.
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| 1992 | Roots author Alex Haley dies in Seattle at age 71.
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| 1990 | South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela, the black activist imprisoned for 27 years, will be released the next day.
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| 1989 | The Democratic National Committee elects Ron Brown as chair, making him the first African-American to head a major political party.
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| 1981 | A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton claims eight lives, and injures nearly 200, at this popular hotel-casino. |
1967 | 
The Beatles invite 40 studio musicians to record the orchestra track for A Day In The Life, a song that will ultimately appear on their Sergeant Pepper album, at EMI Studios in London.
(photo credit: Capitol Records)
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| 1962 | Captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the USSR in exchange for a Soviet spy held by the US.
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| 1949 | The Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, starring Lee J. Cobb and Arthur Kennedy, makes its Broadway debut.
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| 1933 | Singing telegrams were introduced in the US by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York.
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| 1899 | Herbert Hoover (31st US president, 1929-33), marries Lou Henry.
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| 1840 | Queen Victoria of England marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
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| 1763 | The French and Indian War ends with signing of the Treaty of Paris. As part of the treaty, Canada is ceded to England by the French.
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