Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin (1959- ) Rapper Pepa (Salt-NPepa) Comic actor Art Carney dies in Chester, Connecticut, at age 85.Ģ012: Retired four-star Army General David Petraeus resigns as CIA director after an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, was revealed by an FBI investigation. The Beatles' future manager, Brian Epstein, first sees the group perform at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.ġ963: Twin disasters strike Japan as some 450 miners are killed in a coal-dust explosion, and about 160 people die in a train crash.ġ965: The great north-east blackout occurs, as a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours leave 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.ġ967: A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasts off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.ġ970: Former French President Charles de Gaulle dies at age 79.ġ989: Communist East Germany throws open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.Ģ003: Three-time Top Fuel champion Shirley Muldowney, 63, ends her 30-year racing career with a loss in the second round of the Auto Club NHRA Finals at Pomona Raceway in California.

There are 52 days left in the year.ġ976: The UN General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterising the white-ruled Government as 'illegitimate'.ġ620: The passengers and crew of the Mayflower sight Cape Cod.ġ872: Fire destroy nearly 800 buildings in Boston.ġ952: Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, dies.ġ961: US Air Force Major Robert M White becomes the first pilot to fly an X-15 rocket plane at six times the speed of sound. Musicians Donnie McClurkin, Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa), Sisqo andScarface (Geto Boys) all celebrate their birthday today.

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