1919-Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1￠ per gallon)
1945-U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1986-Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines; Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos flees in defeat
1986-Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1988-South Korea revises constitution
1989-1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989-Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
1990-On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man
can stand her for long
1993-"Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
1995-Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
1998-40th Grammy Awards
1998-Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges