1915-Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1954-IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1957-Anti American riots break out in Taipei, Taiwan
1957-Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia
1964-Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1975-Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1986-Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
1989-French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1993-Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993-Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4 million settlement
1997-STS 84 (Atlantis 19), lands
1997-Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful