1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" published by Ticknor‚ Reed and Fields in Boston 1896 - Gustav Mahler' conducts premiere of his "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" (Songs of a Wayfarer)‚ leading the Berlin Philharmonic and Dutch baritone Anton Sistermans as soloist 1946 - "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances 1949 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego‚ CA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1971 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British PM Edward Heath to discuss the security situation in Northern Ireland 1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces his resignation 1978 - Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy‚ 5 killed 1988 - Chemical attack on Kurdish town of Halabja by Iraqi forces kills 5000 civilians - largest ever chemical weapons attack 2012 - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul‚ Afghanistan 2013 - 24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed in Rawalpindi after their bus falls down a ravine More Historical Events »