Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Flight 688 (PK688, PIA688) was a Fokker F27, operated by Pakistan's flag carrier Pakistan International Airlines scheduled to operate as a domestic passenger flight from Multan to Lahore and Islamabad. At 12:05 pm on 10 July 2006.[1] It crashed into a field[2] after one of its two engines failed shortly before takeoff[3] from Multan International Airport. All 41 passengers and four crewmembers on board were killed.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIA_Flight_688
Friday 12 July 1996, when the formal announcement of the Prince of Wales's divorce was made, will rank as a day of ill omen when the history of the House of Windsor comes to be written. By an odd coincidence, I spent the day at Fort Belvedere, the castellated folly which was Edward VIII's favourite retreat and where, on 10 December 1936, another day of ill omen for the Windsors, he signed the Instrument of Abdication.
1981 England riots: A race riot began in Southall, London, as a group of white "skinheads" clashed with British Asians. The next day, black British youths in the Toxteth section of Liverpool fought with police, and within a week, disturbances broke out in other English cities.[9]
1981 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles: Chris Evert Lloyd defeated Hana Mandlíková in straight sets, becoming the first woman in 14 years to win the tournament without losing a single set. In seven matches, she lost only 26 games.[10]
The New York Times became the first major newspaper to report on the existence of AIDS, with a report on page 20, headlined "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals". Initially referred to as "GRID" (for "Gay Related Immune Disorder"), the illness would later be named Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.[11] The news, picked up by CNN the next day, was based on an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, entitled "Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocystis Pneumonia Among Homosexual Men- New York City and California".[12]
Sara Alpysqyzy Nazarbayeva (Kazakh: Сара Алпысқызы Назарбаева) (born 12 February 1941, in Kzyl-Zhar, Kazakhstan) is the First Lady of Kazakhstan and wife of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. She married Nursultan in 1962 after her graduation. They have three daughters — Dariga, Dinara and Aliya — and as well as six grandchildren and a great granddaughter.
