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• In 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 3, a space probe which transmitted images of the far side of the moon.
• In 1960, an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-188A Electra crashed on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing all but 10 of the 72 people on board.
• In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room.
• In 1976, agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over a joke he'd made about blacks.
• In 1980, fire broke out aboard the Dutch cruise vessel Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska, forcing the 520 people aboard to abandon ship; no deaths or serious injury resulted. (The ship capsized and sank a week later.)
• In 1991, 26 nations, including the United States, signed the Madrid Protocol, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica.
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• Ten years ago: A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.
• Five years ago: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in New Delhi, where they lauded but did not sign a new agreement opening up U.S. nuclear trade with India. The U.S. military said it had killed an al-Qaida in Iraq leader (Mahir Ahmad Mahmud al-Zubaydi) suspected of masterminding one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad, several other recent bombings and the 2006 videotaped killing of a Russian official. A North Korean news agency reported on leader Kim Jong Il's first public appearance in nearly two months.
• One year ago: A day after his first debate with Mitt Romney, which had been widely seen as a victory for Romney, President Barack Obama suggested that his Republican rival hadn't been candid about his policy positions during the faceoff. The Nielsen company said an estimated 67.2 million people had watched the debate; it was the biggest TV audience for a presidential debate since 1992.
• Today's Birthdays: Country singer Leroy Van Dyke is 84. Actress Felicia Farr is 81. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Sam Huff is 79. Actor Eddie Applegate is 78. Author Jackie Collins is 76. Author Roy Blount Jr. is 72. Author Anne Rice is 72. Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 72. Baseball manager Tony La Russa is 69. Actor Clifton Davis is 68. The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, is 67. Actress Susan Sarandon is 67. Blues musician Duke Robillard is 65. Playwright Lee Blessing is 64. Actor Armand Assante is 64. Actor

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