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2005 - A mandatory evacuation is ordered by New Orleans, Louisiana mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco as Hurricane Katrina moved nearer to Louisiana.
1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
1993 - A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
1993 - Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore
1990 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1988 - At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
1986 - Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
1972 - During the Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.

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Today's Birthdays

1982 - LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1979 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1971 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
1969 - Jason Priestley, Canadian actor
1966 - René Higuita, Colombian football goalkeeper
1961 - Kim Appleby, British singer
1958 - Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1957 - Daniel Stern, American actor
1944 - Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1943 - David Soul, American actor

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Today's Deaths

2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician
1993 - William Stafford, American writer (b. 1914)
1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)

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