Today in History

NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Tiger Woods wins golf’s PGA Championship, the first golfer to win 3 majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953.

The new Globe theater opens in England.

Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexico’s presidential election.

Communist hardliners’ coup is crushed in USSR after just 2 days; Latvia declares independence from USSR.

Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune.

Ceasefire in the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq.

In Cameroon 2,000 die from poison gas from a volcanic eruption.

Operation Paul Bunyan: after North Korean guards killed two American officers sent to trim a poplar tree along the DMZ on Aug. 18, US and ROK soldiers with heavy support chopped down the tree.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.

US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched.

Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia because of the country’s experiments with a more liberal government.

The South Vietnamese Army arrests over 100 Buddhist monks in Saigon.

Stephen Hillenburg, animator and cartoonist; created character of Spongebob Squarepants.