1926 – KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1954 – Andrew Schwartz and Dorothy Fields’ musical “By the Beautiful Sea”, starring Shirley Booth, closes at the Theatre, NYC, after 270 performances
1977 – CFL Grey Cup, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Montreal Alouettes beat Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6; record Grey Cup crowd 68,318; game referred to as the ‘Ice Bowl’; Dan Sweet record 23 points
1978 – San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White at City Hall
1982 – Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1986 – Europa TV, a project of five European public service broadcasters ceases operations after exhausting its budget
1991 – Cuban poet and journalist María Elena Cruz Varela is sentenced to two years in prison for calling for the democratization of Fidel Castro’s regime as leader of the group Critirio Alternativo (Alternative Criteria)
2000 – Norway opens the Laerdal Tunnel, linking Oslo and Bergen, the world’s longest road tunnel at 15.3 miles (24.6 kilometers)