LOOKING BACK

1958: Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.

1972: 118 people died after fire broke out at the Sennichi Department Store in Osaka, Japan.

1981: Pope John

Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in

St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.