In History...

* 1945, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell and five neighborhood children were killed
in Lakeview, Ore., when a Japanese balloon they had found in the woods
exploded. They were listed as the only known World War II civilian
fatalities in the continental United States.

* 1980, a siege at the Iranian embassy in London by armed practitioners
of that "religion pf peace" demanding the release of political prisoners
in Iran ended as British commandos and police stormed the building.
Nineteen hostages were rescued; two others had
already been killed by their captors; four of the five hostage-takers
were also killed.