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*[[1960]] - [[Senegal]] breaks from the [[Mali]] federation, declaring independence.

*[[1968]] - 200,000 [[Warsaw Pact]] troops and 5,000 [[tank]]s invade [[Czechoslovakia]] to end the "[[Prague Spring]]" of political liberalization.

*[[1975]] - [[VickingViking program]]: [[NASA]] launches the [[Viking 1]] planetary probe toward [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].

*[[1977]] - [[Voyager program]]: The [[United States]] launches the [[Voyager 2]] spacecraft.

*[[1982]] - [[Lebanese Civil War]]: A multinational force lands in [[Beirut]] to oversee the [[Palestine | Palestinian]] withdrawal from [[Lebanon]].

*[[1986]] - In [[Edmon, Oklahoma]], [[United States Postal Service|US Postal]] employee [[Patrick Henry Sherrill]] guns down 14 of his co-workers and then comits [[suicide]].

*[[1989]]- In [[Beverly Hills, California]], [[Lyle and Erik Menendez]] shoot their wealthy parents to death in their family's den.

*[[1991]] - [[Collapse of the Soviet Union]]: [[Estonia]] declares its independence from the [[Soviet Union]].

*[[ 1991]] - [[Collapse of the Soviet Union]]: More thatthan 100,000 people rally outside the [[Soviet Union]]'s parliament building protesting the [[coup]] that deposed President [[Mikhail Gorbachev]].

*[[1998]] - The [[Supreme Court of Canada]] states [[Quebec]] can not legally secede from [[Canada]] without the federal government's approval.

*[[ 1998]] - [[1998 U.S. embassy bombings]]: The [[United States military]] launches [[cruise missile]] attacks against alleged [[al-Quaida]] camps in [[Afghanistan]] and a suspected chemical plant in [[Sudan]] in retaliation for the [[August 7]] bombings of American embassies in [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]]. The [[al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory]] in [[Khartoum]] is destroyed in the attack.

==Births==