Tuesday, September 4, 2012

This Day in History: September 4

1971 - An Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 jet crashed into Chilkoot Mountain near Juneau, Alaska. 111 people were killed.

1972 - Swimmer Mark Spitz captured his seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter medley relay event at Munich, Germany. Spitz became the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.

1973 - William E. Colby, became the tenth director of the CIA. He was sworn in at a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.

1982 - After six weeks, Eye of the Tiger, by Survivor, dropped out of the top spot on the music charts. The song, from the movie, Rocky III, dropped all the way to number 2 (for two weeks), then to number 3 for one week and to number 4 for two weeks before starting to fade. That’s what we call a hit, folks! It was the group’s biggest, earning them a platinum record.

1984 - Canada’s Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, won a landslide victory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime Minister John N. Turner.

1989 - The U.S. Air Force launched its last Titan 3 rocket (carrying a military reconnaissance satellite). Between 1964 and 1989, the Titan 3 had boosted more than 200 satellites into space.



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