1901 The Mercedes is introduced by Daimler at the five-day "Week of Nice" in Nice, France.

1915 The first submarine disaster in history occurs when a U.S. F-4 sinks off the Hawaiian coast. Twenty-one people are killed.

1947 John D. Rockefeller presents a check for $8.5 million to the United Nations for the purchase of land to build the U.N. center upon.

1954 RCA manufactures its first color television set and begins mass production of their product.

1966 The United States Supreme Court rules that the "poll tax," a tax that is levied on an individual as a prerequisite for voting, is unconstitutional.

1970 The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.

1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes the first player in NHL history to score 200 points in a season.

1988 Robert Chambers Jr. pleads guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18 year-old Jennifer Levin in what came to be known as the "preppy murder case."

1989 In Paris, the Louvre reopened with I.M. Pei's new courtyard pyramid.

1990 A fire in Happy Land, an illegal New York City social club, killed 87 people.

1990 Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.

1991 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched a major counter-offensive to recapture key towns from Kurds in northern Iraq.

1992 Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth after spending 10 months aboard the orbiting Mir space station.

1993 President de Klerk admitted that South Africa had built six nuclear bombs, but said that they had since been dismantled.

1994 United States troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.

1995 Boxer Mike Tyson was released from jail after serving 3 years.

1996 An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, MT.

1996 The U.S. issued a newly redesigned $100 bill for circulation.

1998 A cancer patient was the first known to die under Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide law.

1998 The FCC nets $578.6 million at auction for licenses for new wireless technology.

1998 Quinn Pletcher was found guilty on charges of extortion. He had threatened to kill Bill Gates unless he was paid $5
million.

2002 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) dismissed complaints against Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network broadcast of a Victoria's Secret fashion show in November 2001.

2004 The U.S. Senate voted (61-38) on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997) to make it a separate crime to harm a fetus during the commission of a violent federal crime.

Famous Birthdays:
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker born 1965
Actor John Stockwell born 1961
Actress Bonnie Bedelia born 1946
Actor Paul Michael Glaser born 1943
Journalist Gloria Steinem born 1934

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