1. 1666 - The Great Fire of London is finally put out
2. 1901 - President McKinley is shot and fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz
3. 1915 - A prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. The British developed the tank in response to the trench warfare of World War I.
4. 1941 - Jews are ordered to wear the Yellow Star of David in Germany
5. 1943 - A new high-speed train traveling between New York City and Washington, D.C., derails killing 79 people
6. 1966 - South Africa Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting in Cape Town
7. 1970 - Four New York-bound airliners are hijacked over western Europe in an operation carried out by a militant Palestinian group
8. 1976 – Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States
9. 1988 - 11 year old Thomas Gregory becomes the youngest person to swim the English channel, taking nearly 12 hours
10. 1997 - Princess Diana's funeral is held
11. 2007 - Luciano Pavarotti dies
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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