1012 Chronicle 3

1976: The Communist Party of China announces Hua Guofeng as the successor leader. 1979: The Joint Typhoon Warning Center assesses Typhoon Tip to have reached a sea level pressure of 870 hectopascals, becoming the tropical cyclone with the lowest central pressure in recorded meteorological history. 1980: Sadaharu Oh, a player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japanese professional baseball, hits his final career home run, becoming the world record holder for most career home runs in professional baseball with 868, a record that still stands today. 1982: China successfully launches its first submarine-launched ballistic missile. 1983: Former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is sentenced to four years in prison for bribery (Lockheed Scandal). 1984: The Irish Republican Army detonates a large bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, East Sussex, during the Conservative Party conference, narrowly failing in an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. 1986: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visits China, marking the first visit to China by a reigning British monarch. 1991: Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport officially opens for operation. 1999: The United Nations designates this day as the "World 6 Billion People Day." 2000: The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is attacked by Al-Qaeda in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 people.