On this date in...

1970...One year after a Rolling Stones fan is killed by Hells Angels during the band's Altamont Speedway concert near San Francisco, the documentary "Gimme Shelter," which chronicles the ill-fated concert, makes its debuts in Manhattan.

1988...Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in New York for a two-day visit – the last by a Soviet leader before the Soviet Union dissolves in 1991.