Want To Know More About July 4th?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The WorldJust visit Wikipedia’s page on the 4th:
- 1984 – NASCAR driver Richard Petty wins his 200th career victory at the Firecracker 400 race in Daytona, Florida, in front of a record crowd that included NASCAR’s first presidential patron, Ronald Reagan.
- 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the “Butcher of Lyon”) is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1989 – 14-year-old actress Drew Barrymore attempts suicide.
- 1993 – The Argentine national football team wins the Copa América 1993 championship game 2-1 against Jorge Campos’ Mexico national football team in Guayaquil.
- 1997 – NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
- 1998 – Lin “Spit” Newborn and Daniel Shersty are murdered by neonazis in the desert just outside Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- 2002 – Three people are shot at the El Al check-in booth at Los Angeles International Airport. The gunman is shot and killed by a security officer.
- 2002 – A Prestige Airlines cargo Boeing 707 crashes just short of the runway in Bangui, Central African Republic killing 25.
- 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks).
- 2005-The Deep Impact (space mission) collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
Well…how about that?
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