1994 Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum, Sudan

1991 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park

1989 U.S. Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle

1971 President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents

1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair starts at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, NY.

1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule

1914 The Panama Canal opened to traffic, providing a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Isthmus of Panama.

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