On this day

1580 - Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, in the Golden Hind, becoming the first British navigator to circumnavigate the earth.

1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.

1934 - The liner Queen Mary was launched at Clydebank, Scotland, by Queen Mary.

1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

1973 - Concorde made its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time cutting the previous record in half, and flying at an average speed of 954 mph.

1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.

1984 - Great Britain formally agreed to honor the expiration of its 99-year lease on the island of Hong Kong. The agreement was signed in Peking.

1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

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Doctor in Brazil sends patient to morgue a bit too soon

A Brazilian woman in her 60s being treated in hospital for pneumonia was given up for dead by her attending physician, and sent to the morgue too soon, O Globo newspaper reported Sunday.

The doctor felt no vital signs, ran tests and pronounced her dead. She was sent to the morgue and spent at least two hours in a plastic body bag.

"I went to give my mom one last hug, and I could feel that she was breathing. I screamed out -- my mom is alive! And they all looked at me like I was crazy," Rosangela Celestrino, the patient's daughter, told the paper.

"Not only did I have to go collect my mom from a cold storage drawer at the morgue, but when I got there, I find her still breathing," Celestrino went on.

Hospital officials said the patient, Rosa Celestrino de Assis, had two strokes and had been on assisted breathing. At 7:30 pm local time Friday, a nurse phoned the attending doctor because she did not show vital signs. The doctor confirmed her death and sent her to the morgue.

Hospital director Manoel Moreira Filho said the mistake was identified at about 10:00 pm, and the patient was immediately intubated and put back on life support.

Births:

1939 – Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
1943 – Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and broadcaster
1944 – Anne Robinson, English television host
1948 – Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress
1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress
1961 – Will Self, English author
1968 – James Caviezel, American actor
1969 – Paul Warhurst, English footballer
1972 – Shawn Stockman, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1976 – Michael Ballack, German footballer
1977 – Kaylynn, American porn star
1979 – Jon Harley, English footballer
1981 – Christina Milian, American actress and singer
1981 – Serena Williams, American tennis player
1982 – Jon Richardson, British comedian
1983 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
1989 – Emma Rigby, English actress

Deaths:

2008 – Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
2010 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)

1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia (on the island of Crete) to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege.

1791 - Jews in France were granted French citizenship.

1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.

1822 – Jean-Francois Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.

1888 - The name 'Jack the Ripper' was used for the first time in an anonymous letter to the Central News Agency. He went on to kill five women and it's believed he may have been responsible for the deaths of four more.

1937 – The Balinese Tiger is declared extinct.

1938 - The 83,000 ton liner 'Queen Elizabeth' was launched at John Brown's Yard on Clydebank in Scotland by the Queen Mother.

1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.

1991 - The first Scrabble Championship was held in London, with 20 countries competing.

Births:

1947 – Meat Loaf, American singer
1948 – Duncan Fletcher, Rhodesian-born Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1953 – Diane Julie Abbott, British politician
1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
1981 – Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer
1981 – Cytherea, American adult actress
1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper
1984 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter

1964: Kennedy murder was 'no conspiracy'
There was no conspiracy surrounding the death of President Kennedy but there were serious failures by those responsible for his protection, according to a government report.
The 300,000-word document, prepared by a special commission set up by President Johnson to investigate the assassination, ends months of speculation about the death of the president on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

The commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court, concludes in its report that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he fired three rifle shots at the president from the Texas School Book Depository.

Security services criticised

It rules out suggestions that Oswald, 24, had an accomplice and that shots were fired from an overpass situated in front of the president's car.

It states that Oswald was also to blame for shooting a police officer with a revolver approximately three-quarters of an hour later on a Dallas street.

Ballistics analysis revealed both guns were owned by Oswald.

The report also found that Jack Ruby, 53, who shot Oswald dead two days after the president's death at a Dallas police station also acted on his own initiative.

But the security services responsible for protecting the president were severely criticised by the report.

The Secret Service was criticised for not taking adequate safety precautions prior to the trip and for not liaising enough with other government departments.

It is understood the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Office of Naval Intelligence all had dossiers on Oswald prior to the shooting following his defection from Russia to America in 1961.

The Secret Service, however, was unaware of his existence, the report stated.

The FBI was criticised for taking "an unduly restrictive view of its responsibilities in preventive intelligence work prior to the assassination."

The press and the media were also criticised for turning Dallas police station into "bedlam" after the assassination and the police officers themselves were condemned for not following correct interviewing procedures when quizzing Oswald about the shooting.


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The Kennedys drive through the streets of Dallas moments before his death


BBC Panorama looks at footage of the Kennedy shooting







In Context
President Johnson immediately appointed a committee to look into the recommendations in the report.
In the years since the assassination there has been much debate about who actually killed JFK.

In 1979 the US Congress House Select Committee on Assassinations said four shots could be heard on audio tape of the assassination, and they appeared to come from two different locations.

The committee concluded Oswald probably did not act alone.

However, the sound of shots cannot be distinguished as such by the ear and the committee's report was later described as "seriously flawed" by the US National Academy of Sciences.

US scientists are in the process of digitising the original tape, never heard by the Warren Commission, and which is now too fragile to be played.

A number of conspiracy theories ranging from an elaborately staged suicide to a right-wing government conspiracy have been suggested.

Oliver Stone's 1992 movie "JFK" supported the conspiracy theorists however an official government review in 1998 again concluded there had been no conspiracy.

The debate still continues with strong opinions on both sides.

Fact Box
The commission made four recommendations in its report:
That assassination of a president should be made a federal offence.
The work of the Secret Service should be overseen by a cabinet committee.
The Secret Service should improve its monitoring of dangerous characters by installing automatic data processing machines.
The president's doctor should travel with him at all times.


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1066 - Claiming his right to the English throne, William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy began his invasion of England, due to his success he became known as William the Conqueror.

1542 - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived at what is now San Diego. He was the first European to see California.

1865 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first qualified woman physician in Britain.

1894 - Simon Marks, a Polish immigrant and Yorkshireman Tom Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in Manchester, setting the foundations for the Marks and Spencer chain.

1959 - Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, took the first video pictures of Earth.

2000 - After a 12-year battle, the U.S. government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486.

Births:

1963 – Steve Blackman, American professional wrestler
1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
1964 – Paul Jewell, English football manager
1968 – Naomi Watts, English-born Australian actress
1972 – Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer
1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer.....and all round hottie

1916 - American John D Rockefeller became the one of the world's first billionaires.

1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

1961 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev performed with the Paris Opera after he was granted asylum in France.

1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.

1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.

1996 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 in North America.

2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.

2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.

Births:

1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
1941 – Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
1942 – Ian McShane, British actor
1956 – Sebastian Coe, British athlete
1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and match referee
1957 – Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sports presenter (legend)
1970 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 – Russell Peters, Canadian stand-up comedian
1971 – Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
1972 – Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
1976 – Darren Byfield, English footballer
1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor
1982 – Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
1982 – Matt Giteau, Australian rugby union player
1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor

Deaths:

2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
2010 – Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)