On this day in 1957, U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond began a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
On this day in 1963, Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie were murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights.
On this day in 1988, three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collided and the wreckage fell into the crowd in the U.S. Ramstein Air Space. Seventy-five were killed and 346 seriously injured.
On this day in 1998, Pakistan's National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.