the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in ), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix. 1972 – Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day. 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. 1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft. 1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland. 1980 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at stretching from Göschenen to Airolo. 1981 – The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK. 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage. 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport. 1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians. 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force. 1996 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people. 2012 – An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others. 2021 – The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état. 2022 – Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak 2022 – At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China. Births Pre-1600 989 – Fan Zhongyan, Chinese chancellor (d. 1052) 1187 – Louis VIII, king of France (d. 1226) 1201 – Alix of Thouars, duchess of Brittany (d. 1221) 1319 – Peter IV, king of Aragon (d. 1387) 1451 – Isabel Neville, daughter of Richard Neville (d. 1476) 1500 – Maria of Jever, ruler of the Lordship of Jever (d. 1575) 1533 – Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher and logician (d. 1589) 1540 – Magnus of Holstein, prince of Denmark