2126 End of the World? Swift-Tuttle comet approaches Earth. It has a 1 in 10,000 chance of colliding. If this were to occur it would probably end civilization.

1984 IBM introduces the Personal Computer AT (Advanced Technologies). It is approximately three to five times faster than the IBM XT.

1975 Rocky Horror Picture Show The cult classic, starring Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Tim Curry, and Meat Loaf, premiers in the UK.

1974 U.S. ban on private possession of gold is lifted when Pres. Ford signs a bill to take effect December 31. The 41-year-old ban had allowed only industrial and numismatic purchases.

1965 First black page for the U.S. House of Representatives 15-year-old Frank Mitchell is appointed by Republican Representative Paul Findley of Illinois.

1962 Record robbery A mail truck in Massachusetts is robbed of $1,551,227 in cash.

1959 First photograph of Earth taken from space The U.S. satellite Explorer VI takes its historic photo, showing a sun-lighted area of the Central Pacific ocean and its cloud cover.

1956 Royal Air Force UFO sighting A RAF fighter is followed by a UFO traveling at speeds of 600 m.p.h. The object was tracked by three separate ground radars. Source: Above Top Secret

1950 First Korean War hero buried in Arlington National Cemetery 2nd Lt. Howell Garrone Thomas, Jr. is buried.

1947 Pakistan Pakistan gains its independence from Britain..

1945 World War II - V-J Day Japan surrenders ending the war.

1941 Atlantic Charter Pres. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign an agreement outlining their hopes for a better future for the world.

1936 First Olympic basketball championship The U.S. defeats Canada 19-8 to win the gold in Berlin.

1935 Social Security Act is signed into law by Pres. Roosevelt.

1933 First successful national radio soap opera Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins debuts on Cincinnati's WLW. It began airing coast-to-coast on NBC the following December.

1914 First airplane battle A French pilot fires at a German pilot, who escapes.

1901 First manned heavier-than-air flight Gustave A. Whitehead claims to have made a ½-mile flight in a his aircraft on this date - two years before the Wright brothers' first flight.

1901 First Flight Gustave Whitehead makes the first publicized account of a powered-heavier-than-air flight. Reports were published in the New York Herald, and the Bridgeport Herald and was witnessed by several people, including a reporter for the Bridgeport Herald. Children and youngsters who were present signed affidavits about 30 years later about what they saw. Reports said he started on the wheels from a flat surface, flew 800 meters at 15 meter height, and landed softly on the wheels. This was two years before the Wright Brothers.

1880 The Cologne Cathedral is completed It is the largest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Europe. Its reconstruction had begun August 14, 1248.

1866 First Queen to Visit the US Former Queen Emma of Hawaii (1855-63) is received by Pres. Andrew Johnson. She had arrived in New York six days earlier.

1843 The Second Seminole War After eight years of fighting the war is declared ended. The Seminole Indians - led by Osceola - were fighting their forced removal from Florida.

1816 World's remotest inhabited island Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha. It is 1,320 miles from the nearest inhabited land.

1959 Earvin "Magic" Johson American basketball player, in 1991 he announced he was infected with the AIDS virus.

1950 Gary Larson American cartoonist, creator of The Far Side.

1947 Danielle Steel American romance novelist. Writings: Jewels and Heartbeat.

1946 Susan Saint James (Susan Miller), American actress, Mrs. McMillan of McMillan and Wife and Kate of Kate & Allie.

1945 Steve Martin (Stephen Glenn Martin), American Emmy-Grammy-winning comic, a wild and crazy guy. Film: The Jerk (1979, Navin Johnson), Plains Trains & Automobiles (1987), Bowfinger (1999), and The Pink Panther (2006, Inspector Clouseau)

1941 David Crosby (David Van Cortland), American singer, with The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

1926 Buddy Greco (Armando Greco), American composer, singer, I Ran All The Way Home (1951).

1926 Alice Ghostley American actress. TV: Designing Women (Berniece).

1876 Alexander I d. 1903 King of Serbia (1889-1903), an unpopular king, he and Queen Draga were assassinated by a military conspiracy.

1867 John Galsworthy d. 1933 British Nobel-winning novelist. Writings: The Forsyte Saga (1922).

1863 Ernest Thayer d. 1940 American journalist, author of the poem Casey at the Bat (1888).

1840 Baron Richard von Krafft-Ebing d. 1902 German physician, neurologist, pioneer in clinical psychology. His Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) became a standard text and has been translated into seven languages.

1740 Pius VII d. 1823 Italian religious leader, 251st Pope (1800-23).

1988 Roy Buchanan b. 1939 American guitarist, one of the world's greatest rock guitarists.

1988 Enzo Ferrari b. 1898 Italian sports car maker, racer. His cars established numerous racing records.

1951 William Randolph Hearst b. 1863 American newspaper publisher, political figure.

1932 Rin Tin Tin b. 1916 German-born American dog actor, won the Most Popular Film Performer of the Year award (1926).

1870 David Glasgow Farragut b. 1801 American naval officer, made his famous proclamation in 1864 during the Battle of Mobile Bay: "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead." In 1866 he became the first U.S. admiral.

1464 Pius II b. 1405 Italian poet, religious leader, 210th Pope (1458-64). Wrote The Tale of the Two Lovers (c1442), for which he later apologized.

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