...Date... AGE Event
1946/--/-- -1 - American author Robert Penn Warren publishes All the King's Men.
1946/--/-- -1 - Communists abolish the monarchy in Bulgaria; Georgi Dimitrov becomes premier.
1946/--/-- -1 - Dr. Spock publishes The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care.
1946/--/-- -1 - ELAS communist forces begin a civil war in Greece.
1946/--/-- -1 - ENIAC, the first successful electronic digital computer, becomes operational.
1946/--/-- -1 - Elections in Italy abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1946/--/-- -1 - General De Gaulle resigns as president of France; the Fourth Republic is formed.
1946/--/-- -1 - Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis publishes Zorba the Greek.
1946/--/-- -1 - Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina.
1946/--/-- -1 - MacArthur promotes Japanese democracy with the emperor as constitutional monarch.
1946/--/-- -1 - Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.
1946/--/-- -1 - Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier designs Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles.
1946/--/-- -1 - Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy is produced.
1946/--/-- -1 - The Philippines are granted independence with Manuel Roxas y Acuna as president.
1946/--/-- -1 - The Viet Minh begin a guerrilla war against the French in Indochina (Vietnam).
1946/--/-- -1 - Winston Churchill describes the Iron Curtain created in Europe by the Soviets.
1946/10/-- -1 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1946/11/23 0 *** Thompson, Gayle (Dalton) - Born Bell County Kentucky
1947/--/-- 0 - American pilot Kenneth Arnold makes the first alleged sighting of flying saucers.
1947/--/-- 0 - Artist Jackson Pollock produces Full Fathom Five using drip paint techniques.
1947/--/-- 0 - Artist Mark Rothko begins experimenting with Color-field painting.
1947/--/-- 0 - Baseball player Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues.
1947/--/-- 0 - British & French Empires fracture into new 3rd world nations
1947/--/-- 0 - British India becomes Pakistan & India
1947/--/-- 0 - British atomic bomb scientist Klaus Fuchs is arrested for giving information to the USSR.
1947/--/-- 0 - Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in an X-1 rocket plane.
1947/--/-- 0 - Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham forms the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
1947/--/-- 0 - Dennis Gabor invents holography, a means of producing a three-dimensional image.
1947/--/-- 0 - Edwin Land demonstrates the single-step Polaroid Land Camera.
1947/--/-- 0 - English composer Benjamin Britten writes the opera Peter Grimes.
1947/--/-- 0 - French fashion designer Christian Dior opens his own couture house.
1947/--/-- 0 - French literary figure Andre Gide wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1947/--/-- 0 - Gheorghiu-Dej heads the Romanian Communist party; King Michael abdicates.
1947/--/-- 0 - India becomes independent and is divided into the nations of India and Pakistan.
1947/--/-- 0 - Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first prime minister of India.
1947/--/-- 0 - Marshall Plan
1947/--/-- 0 - Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails on the balsa raft Kon Tiki from Peru to Polynesia.
1947/--/-- 0 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire is produced.
1947/--/-- 0 - The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient Hebrew documents, are discovered.
1947/--/-- 0 - The U.S. Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe is established.
1947/--/-- 0 - The United Nations elect to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
1947/--/-- 0 - The first India-Pakistan War begins when Pakistani tribesmen invade Kashmir.
1947/--/-- 0 - The story of a Jewish victim of the Nazis, The Diary of Anne Frank, is published.
1947/--/-- 0 - Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, captured from Japan, administered by U.S.
1947/--/-- 0 - U.S. contains spread of communism
1947/10/-- 0 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1948/--/-- 1 - Alec Guinness stars as Fagin in the film of Dicken's Oliver Twist.
1948/--/-- 1 - Alfred Kinsey publishes his report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
1948/--/-- 1 - American opera singer Beverly Sills debuts in Bizet's Carmen.
1948/--/-- 1 - American writer Norman Mailer publishes the war novel The Naked and the Dead.
1948/--/-- 1 - Arab armies invade Israel in the first Arab-Israeli War.
1948/--/-- 1 - Bell Labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 1 - Britain grants independence to Burma.
1948/--/-- 1 - Communism quashed in US
1948/--/-- 1 - Communist leader Kim Il Sung establishes the People's Republic of Korea (N. Korea).
1948/--/-- 1 - Dutch track star Fanny Blankers-Koen wins four gold medals in the Olympic Games.
1948/--/-- 1 - George Balanchine's Ballet Society is renamed the New York City Ballet.
1948/--/-- 1 - Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 1 - Israel created
1948/--/-- 1 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs The Bicycle Thieves.
1948/--/-- 1 - NATO formed; Cold War begins
1948/--/-- 1 - Palestinian Jews proclaim the independent state of Israel.
1948/--/-- 1 - Stalin expels Yugoslavia from the Communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 1 - The Communist party assumes power in Hungary under Matyas Rakosi.
1948/--/-- 1 - The Malayan Communist party begins an insurrection against British rule.
1948/--/-- 1 - The Republic of Korea (S. Korea) is inaugurated, Syngman Rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 1 - The Soviets blockade West Berlin; Britain and the U.S. begin the Berlin Airlift.
1948/--/-- 1 - The U.S. Air Force begins the Project Blue Book study of the UFO phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 1 - The apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in South Africa.
1948/--/-- 1 - The transistor is invented at Bell Laboratories in the U.S.
1948/10/-- 1 - World Series NL BOSTON (2) AL CLEVELAND (4)
1949/--/-- 2 - Abstract artist Robert Motherwell begins his series Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
1949/--/-- 2 - Abstract-Expressionism breaks out in NYC
1949/--/-- 2 - Architect Philip Johnson designs the Glass House in New Caanan, Conn.
1949/--/-- 2 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 2 - British abstract sculptor Henry Moore completes the bronze Family Group.
1949/--/-- 2 - British author George Orwell publishes the futuristic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
1949/--/-- 2 - Civil war ends in Greece with the defeat of the Communist forces.
1949/--/-- 2 - Communists under Mao defeat the Nationalists and form the People's Republic of China.
1949/--/-- 2 - Konrad Adenauer becomes the first chancellor of West Germany.
1949/--/-- 2 - Kurchatov develops first Soviet A-bomb
1949/--/-- 2 - Miles Davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 2 - Nationalist Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-shek flee to the island of Taiwan.
1949/--/-- 2 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical South Pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 2 - The Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan is renamed as Jordan.
1949/--/-- 2 - The Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies).
1949/--/-- 2 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed to deter Soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 2 - The Republic of Germany (West Germany) is established by the Western powers.
1949/--/-- 2 - The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 2 - The Soviets establish the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1949/--/-- 2 - The first India-Pakistan War ends with the partition of Kashmir.
1949/10/-- 2 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1950/--/-- 3 - Adnan Menderes replaces Ismet Inonu as prime minister of Turkey.
1950/--/-- 3 - Bette Davis stars in the film All About Eve.
1950/--/-- 3 - Cartoonist Charles Schulz creates the Peanuts comic strip.
1950/--/-- 3 - Chinese forces invade Tibet, which is officially annexed in 1951.
1950/--/-- 3 - Communist North Korean forces invade South Korea.
1950/--/-- 3 - George Burns and Gracie Allen star in The Burns and Allen Show television series.
1950/--/-- 3 - Isaac Asimov publishes the science-fiction classic I Robot.
1950/--/-- 3 - Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa achieves recognition with Rashomon.
1950/--/-- 3 - Korean "engagement"
1950/--/-- 3 - President Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1950/--/-- 3 - Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his inquiry into un-American activities.
1950/--/-- 3 - The UN sanctions military aid for South Korea; MacArthur is appointed commander.
1950/--/-- 3 - U.S. official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury for denying that he knew a Soviet agent.
1950/--/-- 3 - UN forces cross into North Korea but are repulsed by the Chinese army.
1950/--/-- 3 - UN forces land at Inchon and drive the North Koreans out of South Korea.
1950/10/-- 3 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1951/--/-- 4 - A frontline is stabilized at the 38th parallel in Korea; peace negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1951/--/-- 4 - American novelist Kurt Vonnegut publishes Player Piano.
1951/--/-- 4 - American poet Marianne Moore publishes her Collected Poems.
1951/--/-- 4 - American writer J.D. Salinger publishes The Catcher in the Rye.
1951/--/-- 4 - American writer James Jones publishes the war novel From Here to Eternity.
1951/--/-- 4 - Artist Stuart Davis uses words to function as abstract shapes in his painting Visa.
1951/--/-- 4 - Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. sign the mutual defense Anzus Treaty.
1951/--/-- 4 - Auto racer Juan Fangio wins the world driving championship for the first time.
1951/--/-- 4 - Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake La Motta for the middleweight title.
1951/--/-- 4 - British Conservatives win a general election with Winston Churchill as leader.
1951/--/-- 4 - British spies Burgess and Maclean escape to the Soviet Union.
1951/--/-- 4 - Comedian Lucille Ball stars in the television series I Love Lucy.
1951/--/-- 4 - Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress is premiered.
1951/--/-- 4 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the U.S.
1951/--/-- 4 - King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian nationalist.
1951/--/-- 4 - Leopold III of Belgium is forced to abdicate because of his wartime conduct.
1951/--/-- 4 - President Truman dismisses MacArthur as commander in Korea.
1951/--/-- 4 - Prime minister Muhammad Mosaddeq nationalizes Iran's oil resources.
1951/--/-- 4 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The King and I is produced.
1951/--/-- 4 - Teller tests H-bomb
1951/--/-- 4 - Ten million television receivers have been installed in U.S. homes.
1951/--/-- 4 - The 22nd Amendment restricts U.S. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
1951/--/-- 4 - The UN General Assembly brands Communist China an aggressor in the Korean War.
1951/--/-- 4 - The first successful videotape for recording television images is demonstrated.
1951/--/-- 4 - UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, is accepted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
1951/10/-- 4 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1952/--/-- 5 - A bloodless coup returns Fulgencio Batista to power in Cuba.
1952/--/-- 5 - Agatha Christie's record-breaking play The Mouse Trap opens in London.
1952/--/-- 5 - American sculptor Isamu Noguchi designs two bridges for the Peace Park at Hiroshima.
1952/--/-- 5 - American writer E.B. White publishes the children's book Charlotte's Web.
1952/--/-- 5 - British architect Michael Ventris deciphers the ancient Greek Linear B script.
1952/--/-- 5 - Chuck Yaeger sets a new air speed record of 1,650 mph in the X-1A research plane.
1952/--/-- 5 - Communist POW riots in South Korea delay peace negotiations.
1952/--/-- 5 - Czech runner Emil Zatopek wins 3 gold medals in the Helsinki Olympic Games.
1952/--/-- 5 - Dancer Gene Kelly stars in the film Singin' in the Rain.
1952/--/-- 5 - Eva Peron, popularly known as Evita, dies in Argentina.
1952/--/-- 5 - Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly star in the Western film High Noon.
1952/--/-- 5 - Gordon Bunshaft designs the Lever House, an early International Style building.
1952/--/-- 5 - Hostilities continue in Korea with increased UN air strikes against the north.
1952/--/-- 5 - King Farouk of Egypt is overthrown in a revolution led by Gen. Muhammad Naguib.
1952/--/-- 5 - Kwame Nkrumah is elected prime minister of the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1952/--/-- 5 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1952/--/-- 5 - Opera singer Maria Callas debuts at London's Covent Garden.
1952/--/-- 5 - Queen Elizabeth II ascends to the British throne on the death of her father George VI.
1952/--/-- 5 - Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot is produced in Paris.
1952/--/-- 5 - The British de Havilland Comet becomes the first jet airliner to enter service.
1952/--/-- 5 - The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is formed with Luis Munoz Marin as governor.
1952/--/-- 5 - The Mau Mau uprising begins in Kenya; Jomo Kenyatta is imprisoned.
1952/--/-- 5 - The U.S. tests the first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific.
1952/--/-- 5 - The first automatic pinsetter is installed in a bowling alley in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1952/--/-- 5 - Turkey joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1952/--/-- 5 - Vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon makes his Checkers speech.
1952/02/-- 5 - Elizabeth II succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1952/10/-- 5 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1953/--/-- 6 - A Redstone rocket (based on the German V-2) is tested at Cape Canaveral.
1953/--/-- 6 - American physicist Charles H. Townes invents the maser.
1953/--/-- 6 - American tennis player Maureen Connolly (Little Mo) wins the Grand Slam.
1953/--/-- 6 - American writer Saul Bellow publishes The Adventures of Augie March.
1953/--/-- 6 - An armistice ends the Korean War; the country remains divided into North and South.
1953/--/-- 6 - Arthur Miller writes The Crucible, a play about the Salem Witch Trials.
1953/--/-- 6 - Black writer James Baldwin publishes his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain.
1953/--/-- 6 - Communist statesman Imre Nagy becomes premier of Hungary.
1953/--/-- 6 - Dag Hammarskjold succeeds Trygve Lie as secretary-general of the UN.
1953/--/-- 6 - Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1953/--/-- 6 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to climb Mount Everest.
1953/--/-- 6 - Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th U.S. president; Nixon becomes vice-president.
1953/--/-- 6 - Fidel Castro leads an attack on an army barracks in Cuba; he is captured and imprisoned.
1953/--/-- 6 - Golfer Ben Hogan wins the U.S. Open, Masters, and British Open tournaments.
1953/--/-- 6 - Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy magazine.
1953/--/-- 6 - Hussein I succeeds his father as king of Jordan.
1953/--/-- 6 - Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion retires; he is succeeded by Moshe Sharett.
1953/--/-- 6 - Jacques Piccard's bathyscaphe the Trieste descends to a depth of 10,330 ft.
1953/--/-- 6 - James Watson and Francis Crick propose the double helix structure of DNA.
1953/--/-- 6 - John Foster Dulles is selected as the U.S. secretary of state.
1953/--/-- 6 - Laos, formerly a part of French Indochina, is granted independence.
1953/--/-- 6 - Lavrenti Beria, head of the Soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
1953/--/-- 6 - Marilyn Monroe stars in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
1953/--/-- 6 - Murray Gell-Mann proposes the strangeness property of some subatomic particles.
1953/--/-- 6 - Physicist Donald Glaser invents the bubble chamber to detect subnuclear particles.
1953/--/-- 6 - Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies; Georgy M. Malenkov becomes the new premier.
1953/--/-- 6 - The first heart-lung machine is developed by Dr. John Gibbon.
1953/--/-- 6 - The fossil remains of Piltdown man are proved a hoax 41 years after their discovery.
1953/--/-- 6 - Watson & Crick DNA=double helix
1953/06/-- 6 - Elizabeth II crowned Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at Westminster
1953/10/-- 6 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1954/--/-- 7 - A Supreme Court decision prohibits racial segregation in U.S. public schools.
1954/--/-- 7 - American novelist Evan Hunter publishes The Blackboard Jungle.
1954/--/-- 7 - British artist Francis Bacon begins his Portrait of Pope Innocent X series.
1954/--/-- 7 - British novelist William Golding publishes Lord of the Flies.
1954/--/-- 7 - Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- 7 - English runner Roger Bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- 7 - French forces are defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam.
1954/--/-- 7 - Gamal Abdel Nasser ousts Gen. Muhammad Naguib as president of Egypt.
1954/--/-- 7 - Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond thriller Casino Royale.
1954/--/-- 7 - Italian film-maker Federico Fellini directs La Strada.
1954/--/-- 7 - Kingsley Amis, one of England's angry young men, publishes Lucky Jim.
1954/--/-- 7 - Marlon Brando stars in Elia Kazan's film On the Waterfront.
1954/--/-- 7 - National Liberation Front (FLN) raids on French property spark the Algerian War.
1954/--/-- 7 - Senator McCarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- 7 - Television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- 7 - The Geneva Conference establishes the partition of Vietnam into North and South.
1954/--/-- 7 - The U.S. and Canada begin construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1954/--/-- 7 - The U.S. nuclear submarine the Nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- 7 - U.S. "Nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/10/-- 7 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL CLEVELAND (0)
1955/--/-- 8 - A military coup in Argentina deposes president Juan Peron.
1955/--/-- 8 - AFL and CIO merge
1955/--/-- 8 - American artist Jasper Johns begins his paintings of American flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 8 - American artist Larry Rivers paints Double Portrait of Birdie.
1955/--/-- 8 - American rock 'n' roll musician Bill Haley records Rock Around the Clock.
1955/--/-- 8 - Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain.
1955/--/-- 8 - Austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 8 - Blacks boycott buses in Montgomery
1955/--/-- 8 - British writer Graham Greene publishes The Quiet American.
1955/--/-- 8 - British writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien completes The Lord of the Rings.
1955/--/-- 8 - David Ben-Gurion returns as prime minister of Israel.
1955/--/-- 8 - Film star James Dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 8 - Jonas Salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 8 - Marian Anderson becomes the first black to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1955/--/-- 8 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 8 - Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov publishes the novel Lolita.
1955/--/-- 8 - Satyajit Ray directs Pather Panchali, the first film in a trilogy on Bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 8 - Supreme Court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 8 - The Federal Republic of Germany joins NATO.
1955/--/-- 8 - The Warsaw Pact establishes a military alliance of European Communist nations.
1955/--/-- 8 - Theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin publishes The Phenomenon of Man.
1955/10/-- 8 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1956/--/-- 9 - American beat poet Allen Ginsberg publishes Howl and Other Poems.
1956/--/-- 9 - American television news show The Huntley-Brinkley Report begins.
1956/--/-- 9 - American writer Grace Metalious publishes Peyton Place.
1956/--/-- 9 - Anglo-French forces invade Egypt but withdraw after protests from the U.S.
1956/--/-- 9 - Archbishop Makarios III is deported from Cyprus by the British.
1956/--/-- 9 - Brendan Behan's play The Quare Fellow opens in London.
1956/--/-- 9 - Britain, France and Israel agree on a secret joint action against Egypt.
1956/--/-- 9 - British artist Richard Hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 9 - David Niven stars in the film Around the World in Eighty Days.
1956/--/-- 9 - Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night is produced.
1956/--/-- 9 - Fidel Castro and Che Guevara land in Cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 9 - Film actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1956/--/-- 9 - Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 9 - Israeli forces under Moshe Dayan seize the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
1956/--/-- 9 - John Osborne's first play Look Back In Anger is produced in London.
1956/--/-- 9 - Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady opens in New York.
1956/--/-- 9 - President Anastasio Somoza Garcia is assassinated in Nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 9 - President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal before the British lease expires.
1956/--/-- 9 - President Ngo Dinh Diem refuses to hold elections in South Vietnam.
1956/--/-- 9 - Rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley records his first hit Heartbreak Hotel.
1956/--/-- 9 - Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounces the crimes of the Stalin era.
1956/--/-- 9 - Sudan gains independence from Anglo-Egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 9 - The Hungarian Uprising is suppressed by Soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 9 - The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sinks off the U.S. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 9 - Tunisia and Morocco are granted independence by France.
1956/10/-- 9 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1957/--/-- 10 - Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac publishes On The Road.
1957/--/-- 10 - Black tennis player Althea Gibson wins the U.S. Open and Wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 10 - British philosopher A.J. Ayer publishes The Problem of Knowledge.
1957/--/-- 10 - British prime minister Anthony Eden resigns; is succeeded by Harold Macmillan.
1957/--/-- 10 - Dr. Seuss publishes the children's book The Cat in the Hat.
1957/--/-- 10 - Francois Duvalier (known as Papa Doc) is elected president of Haiti.
1957/--/-- 10 - Ghana gains independence; Kwame Nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 10 - Jack Kerouac "On the Road"
1957/--/-- 10 - Jerome Robbins is director-choreographer of the musical West Side Story.
1957/--/-- 10 - John G. Diefenbaker succeeds Louis St. Laurent as prime minister of Canada.
1957/--/-- 10 - Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of The Alexandria Quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 10 - Scientists from 67 nations work together during the International Geophysical Year.
1957/--/-- 10 - Soviet leaders Malenkov and Molotov fail in an attempt to oust Khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 10 - Soviets launch "Sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 10 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs The Seventh Seal.
1957/--/-- 10 - The Israeli army withdraws from Egypt; the Gaza Strip is policed by UN forces.
1957/--/-- 10 - The USSR launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 10 - The Viet Cong begin acts of rebellion in South Vietnam.
1957/--/-- 10 - Tunku Abdul Rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent Malaya (Malaysia).
1957/10/-- 10 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1958/--/-- 11 - American economist J.K. Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society.
1958/--/-- 11 - American golfer Arnold Palmer wins the Masters tournament for the first time.
1958/--/-- 11 - American playwright Edward Albee writes The Zoo Story.
1958/--/-- 11 - American writer Truman Capote publishes the novella Breakfast At Tiffany's.
1958/--/-- 11 - Bertrand Russell founds the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain.
1958/--/-- 11 - Civil war breaks out in Lebanon; it is ended when U.S. Marines land at Beirut.
1958/--/-- 11 - Egypt and Syria form the United Arab Republic.
1958/--/-- 11 - Gen. Muhammad Ayub Khan seizes control in Pakistan.
1958/--/-- 11 - Leonard Bernstein becomes the conductor of the New York Philharmonic orchestra.
1958/--/-- 11 - Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as Soviet premier.
1958/--/-- 11 - Prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd extends South Africa's apartheid laws.
1958/--/-- 11 - Russian writer Boris Pasternak publishes the novel Doctor Zhivago.
1958/--/-- 11 - Soccer player Pele leads Brazil to victory in the World Cup.
1958/--/-- 11 - The Algerian crisis prompts the recall of Charles de Gaulle as president of France.
1958/--/-- 11 - The European Economic Community (EEC) is established.
1958/--/-- 11 - The French army and settlers in Algiers revolt over the Algerian War stalemate.
1958/--/-- 11 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is founded.
1958/--/-- 11 - The U.S. launches the Explorer I and Vanguard I scientific satellites.
1958/--/-- 11 - The first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is launched in the U.S.
1958/--/-- 11 - The nuclear submarine Nautilus reaches the North Pole under the Polar ice cap.
1958/--/-- 11 - Wilson Greatbatch invents an artificial pacemaker to control heartbeats.
1958/10/-- 11 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1959/--/-- 12 - Alaska is inaugurated as the 49th state of the Union.
1959/--/-- 12 - American writer Leon Uris publishes Exodus, a novel on the founding of Israel.
1959/--/-- 12 - American writer William Burroughs publishes The Naked Lunch.
1959/--/-- 12 - Anthropologists Richard and Mary Leakey discover an Australopithecus skull in Africa.
1959/--/-- 12 - Artist Robert Rauschenberg creates the three-dimensional collage Monogram.
1959/--/-- 12 - Cyprus gains independence from Britain; Archbishop Makarios becomes president.
1959/--/-- 12 - Fidel Castro ousts Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista in a communist revolution.
1959/--/-- 12 - Film actor Charlton Heston wins the Academy Award for his role in Ben-Hur.
1959/--/-- 12 - French New Wave filmmaker Jean Luc Godard directs Breathless.
1959/--/-- 12 - French filmmaker Alain Resnais directs Hiroshima Mon Amour.
1959/--/-- 12 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut directs The 400 Blows.
1959/--/-- 12 - German writer Gunter Grass publishes his first novel The Tin Drum.
1959/--/-- 12 - Hawaii is inaugurated as the 50th state of the Union.
1959/--/-- 12 - Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe star in the film Some Like it Hot.
1959/--/-- 12 - Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave "Breathless"
1959/--/-- 12 - Lee Kuan Yew becomes prime minister of Singapore.
1959/--/-- 12 - Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is the first Broadway play by a black woman.
1959/--/-- 12 - NASA selects the first seven U.S. astronauts.
1959/--/-- 12 - Rock 'n roll star Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash.
1959/--/-- 12 - Rod Serling hosts the Twilight Zone television series.
1959/--/-- 12 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The Sound of Music is produced.
1959/--/-- 12 - Sir Christopher Cockerell tests the first air-cushion vehicle.
1959/--/-- 12 - The Boeing 707 jet airliner enters service.
1959/--/-- 12 - The Dalai Lama flees to India after China crushes an uprising in Tibet.
1959/--/-- 12 - The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York City.
1959/--/-- 12 - The Soviet Union sends a series of Luna space probes to the Moon.
1959/--/-- 12 - The first flight is made by the X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
1959/10/-- 12 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL CHICAGO (2)
1960/--/-- 13 - 69 Africans are killed in the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.
1960/--/-- 13 - A military coup takes place in Turkey; prime minister Adnan Menderes is executed (1961).
1960/--/-- 13 - A student uprising forces the resignation of Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea.
1960/--/-- 13 - American author John Updike publishes the novel Rabbit Run.
1960/--/-- 13 - American physicist Theodore H. Maiman demonstrates the first successful laser.
1960/--/-- 13 - American track star Wilma Rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the Rome Olympic Games.
1960/--/-- 13 - An earthquake kills 15,000 at Agadir in Morocco.
1960/--/-- 13 - Belgium grants independence to the Congo (Zaire); Patrice Lumumba becomes premier.
1960/--/-- 13 - Britain grants independence to Nigeria; Abubakar Balewa continues as prime minister.
1960/--/-- 13 - Civil Rights movement
1960/--/-- 13 - Congo (Zaire) premier Patrice Lumumba is ousted by Joseph Mobutu and murdered.
1960/--/-- 13 - Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directs the suspense thriller Psycho.
1960/--/-- 13 - Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is abducted to Israel.
1960/--/-- 13 - France grants independence to the Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, and Gabon.
1960/--/-- 13 - Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker is produced.
1960/--/-- 13 - Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni directs La Notte (The Night).
1960/--/-- 13 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend to 35,800 ft in the bathyscaphe Trieste.
1960/--/-- 13 - Maiman makes first laser
1960/--/-- 13 - NASA launches the first TIROS weather satellite.
1960/--/-- 13 - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson founds the Christian Broadcasting Network.
1960/--/-- 13 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world's first woman prime minister in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
1960/--/-- 13 - South African civil rights leader Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1960/--/-- 13 - The Congo crisis begins with the secession of Katanga province under Moise Tshombe.
1960/--/-- 13 - The Echo 1 experimental communications satellite is launched.
1960/--/-- 13 - The Motown record company is founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy.
1960/--/-- 13 - The South African government bans the African National Congress (ANC).
1960/--/-- 13 - The Soviets shoot down a U-2 spy plane; U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.
1960/--/-- 13 - The first quasars, the most luminous known objects in the universe, are discovered.
1960/--/-- 13 - The first submerged firing is made of a Polaris submarine-launched missile.
1960/--/-- 13 - The planned city of Brasilia becomes the new capital of Brazil.
1960/--/-- 13 - The presidential debates of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon are televised.
1960/--/-- 13 - Viet Cong groups unite into the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLFSV).
1960/--/-- 13 - Walter Ulbricht becomes head of East Germany.
1960/10/-- 13 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1961/--/-- 14 - Agostinho Neto and Holden Roberto lead insurrections in Portuguese Angola.
1961/--/-- 14 - American writer Joseph Heller publishes the anti-war novel Catch-22.
1961/--/-- 14 - American-aided Cuban exiles attempt the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion.
1961/--/-- 14 - Astronaut Alan Shepard makes the first U.S. suborbital space flight.
1961/--/-- 14 - Britain grants independence to Tanganyika (Tanzania) with Julius Nyerere as prime minister.
1961/--/-- 14 - British novelist Iris Murdoch publishes A Severed Head.
1961/--/-- 14 - English writer Muriel Spark publishes The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
1961/--/-- 14 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut directs Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim.
1961/--/-- 14 - India annexes the Portugese territories of Goa, Daman, and Diu.
1961/--/-- 14 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs Sophia Loren in Alberto Moravia's Two Women.
1961/--/-- 14 - Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti debuts in Puccini's La Boheme.
1961/--/-- 14 - John F. Kennedy (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1961/--/-- 14 - Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1961/--/-- 14 - Kennedy launches "Apollo" project; man lands on the moon
1961/--/-- 14 - Peace Corps
1961/--/-- 14 - President Kennedy begins to increase the U.S. military presence in Vietnam.
1961/--/-- 14 - President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961/--/-- 14 - President Kennedy sets a goal for landing a man on the Moon within the decade.
1961/--/-- 14 - President Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in the Dominican Republic.
1961/--/-- 14 - Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home-run baseball record with a season total of 61.
1961/--/-- 14 - Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein publishes Stranger in a Strange Land.
1961/--/-- 14 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West.
1961/--/-- 14 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth.
1961/--/-- 14 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs Max Von Sydow in Through a Glass Darkly.
1961/--/-- 14 - The Berlin Wall is constructed, separating East and West Berlin.
1961/--/-- 14 - The Kurds begin a guerrilla war against Iraq to gain independence for Kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 14 - The Kurds begin a guerrilla war against Iraq to gain independence for Kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 14 - The drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
1961/--/-- 14 - UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the Congo (Zaire).
1961/--/-- 14 - V.S. Naipaul writes about West Indian life in A House for Mr. Biswas.
1961/10/-- 14 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1962/--/-- 15 - Actor Laurence Olivier becomes the first director of the National Theatre in London.
1962/--/-- 15 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
1962/--/-- 15 - Algeria gains independence from France; Ahmed ben Bella becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 15 - American artist Jim Dine paints the pop art subject Black Saw.
1962/--/-- 15 - American film actress Marilyn Monroe dies from a drug overdose.
1962/--/-- 15 - American historian Barbara Tuchman publishes The Guns of August.
1962/--/-- 15 - American writer Katherine Anne Porter publishes the novel Ship of Fools.
1962/--/-- 15 - American writer Ken Kesey publishes One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
1962/--/-- 15 - Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
1962/--/-- 15 - Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores a record 100 points in one game.
1962/--/-- 15 - Britain grants independence to Trinidad and Tobago with Eric Williams as chief minister.
1962/--/-- 15 - Britain grants independence to Uganda; Milton Obote becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 15 - British filmmaker David Lean directs Lawrence of Arabia.
1962/--/-- 15 - British writer Anthony Burgess publishes the futuristic novel A Clockwork Orange.
1962/--/-- 15 - Burmese diplomat U Thant becomes the first Asian secretary general of the UN.
1962/--/-- 15 - Cuban missile crisis
1962/--/-- 15 - Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is produced on Broadway.
1962/--/-- 15 - Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent opens his Parisian fashion house.
1962/--/-- 15 - Folk-rock singer and composer Bob Dylan writes Blowin' in the Wind.
1962/--/-- 15 - Georges Pompidou becomes premier of France's Fifth Republic.
1962/--/-- 15 - Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski directs his first film Knife in the Water.
1962/--/-- 15 - Pop Art
1962/--/-- 15 - Pop artist Andy Warhol begins making silk screen prints of mass-media images.
1962/--/-- 15 - Rachel Carson criticizes indiscriminate use of pesticides in her book Silent Spring.
1962/--/-- 15 - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star in Cleopatra, the most expensive film to date.
1962/--/-- 15 - Science fiction writer J.G. Ballard publishes The Drowned World.
1962/--/-- 15 - Sonny Liston defeats Floyd Patterson to become heavyweight boxing champion.
1962/--/-- 15 - Television journalist Walter Cronkite is made anchorman of CBS Evening News.
1962/--/-- 15 - The British pop group The Beatles make their first recordings.
1962/--/-- 15 - The Cuban Missile Crisis begins; Soviet missiles are withdrawn from Cuba.
1962/--/-- 15 - The Mariner 2 spacecraft passes within 21,598 miles of Venus.
1962/--/-- 15 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that school prayers are a violation of the 1st Amendment.
1962/--/-- 15 - The U.S. launches Telstar, the first commercial communications satellite.
1962/--/-- 15 - The University of Mississippi is forced to admit black student James Meredith.
1962/10/-- 15 - World Series NL SAN FRANCISCO (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1963/--/-- 16 - A UN peace keeping force ends the secession attempt of Katanga province (Shaba).
1963/--/-- 16 - A limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is signed by Britain, the U.S., and the USSR.
1963/--/-- 16 - American pop vocal group the Beach Boys release the record Surfin' U.S.A.
1963/--/-- 16 - American writer Mary McCarthy publishes The Group.
1963/--/-- 16 - Arecibo Observatory begins observations with a 1,000-ft wide radio telescope.
1963/--/-- 16 - Black nationalist Joshua Nkomo is imprisoned in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
1963/--/-- 16 - Britain's entry to the European Economic Community is blocked by France.
1963/--/-- 16 - British filmmaker Joseph Losey directs The Servant.
1963/--/-- 16 - British spy Harold (Kim) Philby defects to the USSR.
1963/--/-- 16 - Czech dissident playwright Vaclav Havel writes The Garden Party.
1963/--/-- 16 - English writer John Le Carre publishes The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
1963/--/-- 16 - Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick directs the anti-war film Dr. Strangelove.
1963/--/-- 16 - Football running back Jim Brown sets a record for rushes of 1,863 yards.
1963/--/-- 16 - Jack Nicklaus becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
1963/--/-- 16 - John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
1963/--/-- 16 - Kennedy assassinated
1963/--/-- 16 - Kenya gains independence from Britain; Jomo Kenyatta becomes prime minister.
1963/--/-- 16 - Levi Eshkol succeeds David Ben-Gurion as prime minister of Israel.
1963/--/-- 16 - Ludwig Erhard succeeds Konrad Adenauer as chancellor of West Germany.
1963/--/-- 16 - Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1963/--/-- 16 - Lyndon B. Johnson is inaugurated as the 36th President of the U.S.
1963/--/-- 16 - Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah form the Federation of Malaysia.
1963/--/-- 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.
1963/--/-- 16 - Peter Sellers stars as Inspector Clouseau in the film The Pink Panther.
1963/--/-- 16 - Pop artist Claes Oldenburg creates the kapok-filled sculpture Soft Typewriter.
1963/--/-- 16 - Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein completes the comic strip painting Whaam.
1963/--/-- 16 - President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
1963/--/-- 16 - President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is assassinated.
1963/--/-- 16 - Race-car driver Jim Clark wins seven Grand Prix events and the world title.
1963/--/-- 16 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as British prime minister.
1963/--/-- 16 - Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1963/--/-- 16 - Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar is published in the year of her death.
1963/--/-- 16 - The American X-15 research aircraft establishes an altitude record of 67 miles.
1963/--/-- 16 - The Organization of African Unity (OAU) is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1963/--/-- 16 - The Profumo sex scandal undermines the Conservative government in Britain.
1963/--/-- 16 - The Rolling Stones rock band is formed in Britain.
1963/--/-- 16 - The first James Bond film Dr. No is produced.
1963/10/-- 16 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1964/--/-- 17 - ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa.
1964/--/-- 17 - An earthquake in Alaska causes extensive damage and 114 fatalities.
1964/--/-- 17 - Architect Eero Saarinen's St. Louis Arch memorial is completed.
1964/--/-- 17 - Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover the existence of background radiation.
1964/--/-- 17 - Beatlemania develops during the first U.S. tour of the Beatles pop group.
1964/--/-- 17 - Black female group the Supremes record the hit song Where Did Our Love Go.
1964/--/-- 17 - Britain grants independence to Malawi; H. Kamuzu Banda becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 17 - Britain grants independence to Zambia; Kenneth D. Kaunda becomes president.
1964/--/-- 17 - Britain grants independence to Zanzibar.
1964/--/-- 17 - Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti western" A Fistful of Dollars.
1964/--/-- 17 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted for giving an obscene performance.
1964/--/-- 17 - Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600 mph in a jet-powered vehicle.
1964/--/-- 17 - FRELIMO begins a war of independence against the Portuguese in Mozambique.
1964/--/-- 17 - Faisal succeeds his brother Saud as king of Saudi Arabia.
1964/--/-- 17 - Fighting breaks out on Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
1964/--/-- 17 - General Westmoreland is appointed to command the U.S. forces in South Vietnam.
1964/--/-- 17 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident
1964/--/-- 17 - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz becomes president of Mexico.
1964/--/-- 17 - Ian Smith becomes prime minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
1964/--/-- 17 - Illustrator Maurice Sendak wins a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are.
1964/--/-- 17 - Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
1964/--/-- 17 - Johnson is reeelected as U.S. president; Humphrey becomes vice-president (1965).
1964/--/-- 17 - Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke star in the film Mary Poppins.
1964/--/-- 17 - Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing championship.
1964/--/-- 17 - North Vietnam allegedly attacks U.S. vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1964/--/-- 17 - Peter Weiss' play Marat/ Sade is produced by British director Peter Brook.
1964/--/-- 17 - Physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig propose the quark theory.
1964/--/-- 17 - Soviet leader NikitaKhrushchev is forced from office; Aleksei Kosygin becomes premier.
1964/--/-- 17 - Tanganyika joins with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1964/--/-- 17 - The American Ranger 7 spacecraft transmits photos of the surface of the Moon.
1964/--/-- 17 - The Labour party is elected to power in Britain; Harold Wilson becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 17 - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed to represent Palestinians.
1964/--/-- 17 - The SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft is flown for the first time.
1964/--/-- 17 - The Soviet Voskhod 1 spacecraft is launched with a three-man crew.
1964/--/-- 17 - The Tonkin Gulf Resolution escalates the use of U.S. personnel in Vietnam.
1964/--/-- 17 - The U.S. Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in employment.
1964/--/-- 17 - The U.S. Surgeon General reports that cigarette smoking is a health hazard.
1964/--/-- 17 - The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens in New York.
1964/--/-- 17 - The Warren Commission decides that Oswald was the sole assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1964/10/-- 17 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1965/--/-- 18 - Actress and singer Barbara Streisand stars in the Broadway musical Funny Girl.
1965/--/-- 18 - American pop artist James Rosenquist paints F-111.
1965/--/-- 18 - American writer Norman Mailer publishes An American Dream.
1965/--/-- 18 - An attempted communist coup leads to military rule in Indonesia under Suharto.
1965/--/-- 18 - An electrical blackout in the northeastern U.S. affects 30 million people.
1965/--/-- 18 - Astronaut Edward H. White becomes the first American to walk in space.
1965/--/-- 18 - Astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young orbit the Earth in the first Gemini spacecraft.
1965/--/-- 18 - Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965/--/-- 18 - British fashion designer Mary Quant introduces the miniskirt.
1965/--/-- 18 - Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic; U.S. troops restore order.
1965/--/-- 18 - Demonstrations against Vietnam War
1965/--/-- 18 - Gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft make the first rendezvous in space.
1965/--/-- 18 - Houari Boumedienne deposes President Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria.
1965/--/-- 18 - Irish writer Edna O'Brien publishes August Is a Wicked Month.
1965/--/-- 18 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1965/--/-- 18 - Mobutu Sese Seko seizes control in the Congo (Zaire) for the second time.
1965/--/-- 18 - More than 180,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Vietnam by the end of the year.
1965/--/-- 18 - Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple opens on Broadway starring Walter Matthau.
1965/--/-- 18 - Nicolae Ceausescu succeeds Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej as Romanian leader.
1965/--/-- 18 - North Vietnamese army units are in action in South Vietnam for the first time.
1965/--/-- 18 - Race riots begin in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
1965/--/-- 18 - Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) makes a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain.
1965/--/-- 18 - Singapore secedes from Malaysia; Lee Kuan Yew remains as prime minister.
1965/--/-- 18 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov makes the first space walk.
1965/--/-- 18 - The Black Muslim leader Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City.
1965/--/-- 18 - The Houston Astrodome, the first covered stadium, is completed in Texas.
1965/--/-- 18 - The Mariner 4 spacecraft passes within 6,118 miles of the planet Mars.
1965/--/-- 18 - The Second India-Pakistan War begins in Kashmir.
1965/--/-- 18 - The U.S. government establishes Medicare and Medicaid health programs.
1965/--/-- 18 - The Vietnam War escalates as the U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam.
1965/10/-- 18 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL MINNESOTA (3)
1966/--/-- 19 - American writer Bernard Malamud publishes The Fixer.
1966/--/-- 19 - American writer Truman Capote publishes In Cold Blood.
1966/--/-- 19 - Art treasures are ruined during severe floods in Florence, Italy.
1966/--/-- 19 - Gen. Yakubu Gowon heads a military government after a countercoup in Nigeria.
1966/--/-- 19 - Hippie movement
1966/--/-- 19 - Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies; he is succeeded by Indira Gandhi.
1966/--/-- 19 - John Jack Lynch becomes prime minister of Ireland.
1966/--/-- 19 - John V. Lindsay becomes mayor of New York City.
1966/--/-- 19 - Mao Tse-tung begins China's Cultural Revolution.
1966/--/-- 19 - Nigerian prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in a military coup.
1966/--/-- 19 - President De Gaulle withdraws French forces from NATO.
1966/--/-- 19 - President Kwame Nkrumah is ousted in a military coup in Ghana.
1966/--/-- 19 - Realist sculptor George Segal completes the direct-cast plaster group The Diner.
1966/--/-- 19 - South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd is assassinated.
1966/--/-- 19 - The American Surveyor 1 spacecraft achieves the first soft-landing on the Moon.
1966/--/-- 19 - The British Hawker Harrier becomes the first VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft.
1966/--/-- 19 - The Soviet Luna 9 space probe makes the first landing on the Moon.
1966/--/-- 19 - The Soviets mediate to end the India-Pakistan War.
1966/--/-- 19 - The first major rally against the Vietnam War takes place in Washington, D.C.
1966/--/-- 19 - Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is produced.
1966/10/-- 19 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (0) AL BALTIMORE (4)
1967/--/-- 20 - A civil war breaks out in Nigeria after the secession of the state of Biafra.
1967/--/-- 20 - A fire kills U.S. astronauts White, Grissom and Chaffee during a launch test.
1967/--/-- 20 - A military junta seizes control in Greece; King Constantine II is exiled.
1967/--/-- 20 - American writer Joyce Carol Oates publishes A Garden of Earthly Delights.
1967/--/-- 20 - Britain grants Aden independence as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
1967/--/-- 20 - Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude.
1967/--/-- 20 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful human heart transplant.
1967/--/-- 20 - Dustin Hoffman stars in Mike Nichols' film The Graduate.
1967/--/-- 20 - Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle is elected president of Nicaragua.
1967/--/-- 20 - Israeli 6-day war
1967/--/-- 20 - Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia.
1967/--/-- 20 - Nguyen Van Thieu becomes president of South Vietnam.
1967/--/-- 20 - Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper star in the motorcycle film Easy Rider.
1967/--/-- 20 - Quarterback Joe Namath sets a one-season record by passing for 4,007 yards.
1967/--/-- 20 - R. Buckminster Fuller designs a geodesic dome for the U.S. Pavilion at Expo '67.
1967/--/-- 20 - Radio astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discover the first pulsar.
1967/--/-- 20 - Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger star in the film In the Heat of the Night.
1967/--/-- 20 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1.
1967/--/-- 20 - Tennis player Billie Jean King wins the U.S. Open championship for the first time.
1967/--/-- 20 - The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper"
1967/--/-- 20 - The North American Soccer League (NASL) is formed.
1967/--/-- 20 - The Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab states ends with Israeli victory.
1967/--/-- 20 - The X-15 research aircraft establishes a speed record of Mach 6.7 (4,520 mph).
1967/--/-- 20 - The hippie musical revue Hair is produced.
1967/--/-- 20 - The residents of Gibraltar vote to remain a British crown colony.
1967/--/-- 20 - Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1967/--/-- 20 - Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway star in Arthur Penn's film Bonnie and Clyde.
1967/--/-- 20 - Yachtsman Francis Chichester completes the first solo voyage around the world.
1967/10/-- 20 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1968/--/-- 21 - American skater Peggy Fleming wins the singles title at the winter Olympic Games.
1968/--/-- 21 - American track star Bob Beamon beats the Olympic long jump record by almost 2 feet.
1968/--/-- 21 - American writer Tom Wolfe publishes The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
1968/--/-- 21 - Anti-war demonstrators clash with police at the Democratic convention in Chicago.
1968/--/-- 21 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black player to win a major men's tennis title.
1968/--/-- 21 - Carlos Castaneda publishes The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
1968/--/-- 21 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 21 - Dick Fosbury uses the Fosbury flop to win the Olympic gold medal for the high jump.
1968/--/-- 21 - Filmmaker Mel Brooks directs, produces and appears in The Producers.
1968/--/-- 21 - Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick directs 2001: A Space Odyssey.
1968/--/-- 21 - French downhill skier Jean Claude Killy wins three Olympic gold medals.
1968/--/-- 21 - French filmmaker Henri Costa-Gavras directs Z.
1968/--/-- 21 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries the Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis.
1968/--/-- 21 - Kubrick "2001"
1968/--/-- 21 - May Days mini-revolution
1968/--/-- 21 - More than 500,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Vietnam.
1968/--/-- 21 - Oceanographic ship Glomar Challenger begins the Deep-Sea Drilling Project.
1968/--/-- 21 - Omar Torrijos Herrera overthrows the government of Arnulfo Arias in Panama.
1968/--/-- 21 - Pierre Trudeau succeeds Lester Pearson as prime minister of Canada.
1968/--/-- 21 - Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski directs Rosemary's Baby.
1968/--/-- 21 - Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is succeeded by Marcello Caetano.
1968/--/-- 21 - President Johnson announces he will not seek a second term of office.
1968/--/-- 21 - Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 21 - Spain grants independence to Equatorial Guinea.
1968/--/-- 21 - Spanish operatic tenor Placido Domingo debuts at the Metropolitan Opera.
1968/--/-- 21 - Student-worker revolts almost topple the goverment of Charles de Gaulle in France.
1968/--/-- 21 - The Apollo 8 spacecraft makes the first manned orbit of the Moon.
1968/--/-- 21 - The Catholic minority in Northern Ireland demonstrate for British rights.
1968/--/-- 21 - The Federal Gun Control Act regulates the interstate commerce in firearms.
1968/--/-- 21 - The Saturn rocket lifts the Apollo 7 spacecraft into low Earth orbit.
1968/--/-- 21 - The U.S. Navy intelligence gathering ship Pueblo is seized by North Korea.
1968/--/-- 21 - The Viet Cong launch the Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
1968/--/-- 21 - U.S. troops massacre Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
1968/--/-- 21 - Vietnam War begins
1968/--/-- 21 - Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia to counter increasing liberalization.
1968/10/-- 21 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (3) AL DETROIT (4)
1969/--/-- 22 - A rock-music festival at Woodstock, N.Y, attracts a crowd of 500,000.
1969/--/-- 22 - American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon.
1969/--/-- 22 - American writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. publishes Slaughterhouse-Five.
1969/--/-- 22 - Australian Rod Laver becomes the only tennis player to win the Grand Slam twice.
1969/--/-- 22 - British filmmaker Ken Russell directs Glenda Jackson in Women in Love.
1969/--/-- 22 - British writer John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman.
1969/--/-- 22 - Catholics and Protestants clash in Northern Ireland; British troops restore order.
1969/--/-- 22 - Charles Manson and his followers kill actress Sharon Tate and six of her friends.
1969/--/-- 22 - Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi seizes control in Libya; King Idris is deposed.
1969/--/-- 22 - Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight star in John Schlesinger's film Midnight Cowboy.
1969/--/-- 22 - Edward Kennedy's female companion dies in a car accident off the Chappaquiddick bridge.
1969/--/-- 22 - Gen. Gaafar al-Nimeiry seizes power in Sudan.
1969/--/-- 22 - General de Gaulle resigns; Georges Pompidou becomes president of France.
1969/--/-- 22 - Golda Meir becomes prime minister of Israel after the death of Levi Eshkol.
1969/--/-- 22 - IRA provisionals launch a terrorist campaign against British troops in Ireland.
1969/--/-- 22 - Liberal Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is replaced by Gustav Husak.
1969/--/-- 22 - Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th U.S. president; Agnew becomes vice-president.
1969/--/-- 22 - Nudity shocks audiences in Kenneth Tynan's Broadway revue Oh! Calcutta!.
1969/--/-- 22 - Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
1969/--/-- 22 - President Ayub Khan is deposed by Gen. Muhammad Yahya Khan in Pakistan.
1969/--/-- 22 - President Nixon begins to withdraw U.S. forces from Vietnam.
1969/--/-- 22 - Richard M. Nixon (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1969/--/-- 22 - The Anglo-French supersonic transport Concorde makes its first flight.
1969/--/-- 22 - The Children's Television Workshop series Sesame Street is first shown.
1969/--/-- 22 - The Monty Python's Flying Circus television program premiers in Britain.
1969/--/-- 22 - The immigration of Salvadorans into Honduras leads to a brief border war.
1969/--/-- 22 - Willy Brandt succeeds Kurt Kiesinger as chancellor of West Germany.
1969/--/-- 22 - Yasir Arafat becomes chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
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1969/10/-- 22 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL BALTIMORE (1)
1970/--/-- 23 - American writer Maya Angelou publishes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
1970/--/-- 23 - Australian tennis player Margaret Smith Court wins the Grand Slam.
1970/--/-- 23 - Britain grants independence to Fiji.
1970/--/-- 23 - Bruno Kreisky succeeds Josef Klaus as chancellor of Austria.
1970/--/-- 23 - Cartoonist Garry Trudeau begins satirizing public figures and politics in Doonesbury.
1970/--/-- 23 - Civil war begins in Jordan between government forces and Palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 23 - Civil war begins in Jordan between government forces and Palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 23 - Donald Sutherland stars in Robert Altman's anti-war film M*A*S*H.
1970/--/-- 23 - EPA established to enforce Clean Air Act
1970/--/-- 23 - Edward Heath becomes Conservative prime minister of Britain.
1970/--/-- 23 - Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser dies; he is succeeded by Anwar al-Sadat.
1970/--/-- 23 - Former defense minister Hafez al-Assad seizes power in Syria.
1970/--/-- 23 - French filmmaker Eric Rohmer directs Claire's Knee.
1970/--/-- 23 - George C. Scott stars in the Academy Award winning film Patton.
1970/--/-- 23 - Marxist leader Salvadore Allende is elected president of Chile.
1970/--/-- 23 - Norman Borlaug wins the Nobel Peace Prize for breeding miracle wheat strains.
1970/--/-- 23 - Ohio national guardsmen kill four Kent State students during an anti-war protest.
1970/--/-- 23 - President Nixon orders an incursion into Cambodia to combat the Khmer Rouge.
1970/--/-- 23 - Riots in Poland force Wladyslaw Gomulka to resign in favor of Edward Gierek.
1970/--/-- 23 - Rock music guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies from a drug overdose.
1970/--/-- 23 - Sihanouk is deposed in Cambodia; Khmer Rouge seize the western provinces.
1970/--/-- 23 - Sixties energy wins smaller battles: feminism, ecology...
1970/--/-- 23 - Songwriting duo Simon and Garfunkel record Bridge Over Troubled Water.
1970/--/-- 23 - The Amtrak intercity rail passenger service is created by Act of Congress.
1970/--/-- 23 - The Apollo 13 crew return to earth after an explosion aboard their command module.
1970/--/-- 23 - The Beatles pop group is disbanded.
1970/--/-- 23 - The Boeing 747 Jumbo jet airliner enters service.
1970/--/-- 23 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is established in the U.S.
1970/--/-- 23 - The Soviet space probe Venera 7 transmits the first data from the surface of Venus.
1970/--/-- 23 - The building of the Aswan High Dam is completed in Egypt.
1970/--/-- 23 - The civil war ends between Nigeria and the breakaway state of Biafra.
1970/--/-- 23 - U.S. invades Cambodia
1970/--/-- 23 - Writer and feminist Germaine Greer publishes The Female Eunuch.
1970/10/-- 23 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (1) AL BALTIMORE (4)
1971/--/-- 24 *** Dalton, Sam [Son] - Born to Dalton, Steve and Thompson, Gayle (Dalton)
1971/--/-- 24 - Alistair Cooke begins hosting the PBS television series Masterpiece Theatre.
1971/--/-- 24 - American film actor and director Clint Eastwood stars in Dirty Harry.
1971/--/-- 24 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock-opera Jesus Christ Superstar opens on Broadway.
1971/--/-- 24 - Austrian Kurt Waldheim succeeds U Thant as UN secretary general.
1971/--/-- 24 - British actor Dirk Bogard stars in Luchino Visconti's film Death in Venice.
1971/--/-- 24 - Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1971/--/-- 24 - Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez seizes power in Bolivia in a military coup.
1971/--/-- 24 - Daniel Ellsberg releases copies of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.
1971/--/-- 24 - East Pakistan declares its independence from West Pakistan, beginning a civil war.
1971/--/-- 24 - Erich Honecker becomes the head of state for East Germany.
1971/--/-- 24 - Ice hockey player Phil Esposito scores a record 76 goals in 78 games.
1971/--/-- 24 - Jean Claude Duvalier succeeds his father as president of Haiti.
1971/--/-- 24 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight boxing title.
1971/--/-- 24 - Lt. William Calley is found guilty of killing Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
1971/--/-- 24 - Prime minister Brian Faulkner begins the internment of IRA suspects in Northern Ireland.
1971/--/-- 24 - Prime minister Milton Obote is ousted by Idi Amin Dada in Uganda.
1971/--/-- 24 - South Vietnamese troops and U.S. aircraft combat Communist forces in Laos.
1971/--/-- 24 - Soviet "Salyut 1" space station
1971/--/-- 24 - Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1; three cosmonauts die during the return to earth.
1971/--/-- 24 - The Congo is renamed as the Republic of Zaire.
1971/--/-- 24 - The Lunar Rover explores the Moon's surface during the Apollo 15 mission.
1971/--/-- 24 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) loses its UN seat; Communist China is admitted.
1971/--/-- 24 - The support of India wins independence for East Pakistan (renamed as Bangladesh).
1971/10/-- 24 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL BALTIMORE (3)
1972/--/-- 25 - Alabama governor George Wallace is shot in an assassination attempt.
1972/--/-- 25 - American B-52 aircraft bomb Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam.
1972/--/-- 25 - American Bobby Fischer defeats Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky.
1972/--/-- 25 - American feminist Gloria Steinem founds Ms. magazine.
1972/--/-- 25 - American swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seven Olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 25 - An earthquake kills 10,000 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua.
1972/--/-- 25 - Apollo 17 makes the last manned Moon landing.
1972/--/-- 25 - Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka (meaning beautiful island).
1972/--/-- 25 - DDT insecticide is banned in the U.S.
1972/--/-- 25 - DDT is banned
1972/--/-- 25 - Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directs Marlon Brando in The Godfather.
1972/--/-- 25 - German writer Heinrich Boll receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1972/--/-- 25 - Japanese novelist Kawabata Yasunari commits suicide.
1972/--/-- 25 - Liza Minnelli stars in Bob Fosse's film Cabaret.
1972/--/-- 25 - Marlon Brando stars in Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris.
1972/--/-- 25 - Mujibur Rahman becomes prime minister of Bangladesh.
1972/--/-- 25 - Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
1972/--/-- 25 - President Ferdinand Marcos imposes martial law in the Philippines.
1972/--/-- 25 - President Nixon authorizes the Space Shuttle program.
1972/--/-- 25 - President Nixon makes his historic trip to Peking to meet Mao Tse-tung.
1972/--/-- 25 - Richard Leakey discovers a hominid skull 2.6 million years old in northern Kenya.
1972/--/-- 25 - Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut wins three Olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 25 - The British government assumes direct rule of Northern Ireland.
1972/--/-- 25 - The Labor party is elected in Australia with Gough Whitlam as prime minister.
1972/--/-- 25 - The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese renew their offensive in South Vietnam.
1972/--/-- 25 - The Watergate affair begins with the arrest of five burglars at Democratic party headquarters.
1972/10/-- 25 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (3) AL OAKLAND (4)
1973/--/-- 26 - A right-wing military coup in Chile overthrows Allende's Marxist government.
1973/--/-- 26 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes the first volume of the Gulag Archipelago.
1973/--/-- 26 - American novelist Thomas Pynchon publishes Gravity's Rainbow.
1973/--/-- 26 - American playwright Thornton Wilder publishes the novel Theophilus North.
1973/--/-- 26 - Animal behavioralists Lorenz, Tinbergen and von Frisch share the Nobel Prize.
1973/--/-- 26 - Billy Friedkin "The Exorcist"
1973/--/-- 26 - Britain grants independence to the Bahama Islands.
1973/--/-- 26 - Charles XVI Gustav succeeds Gustav VI Adolf as king of Sweden.
1973/--/-- 26 - Congress passes the Endangered Species Act.
1973/--/-- 26 - Egypt and Syria attack Israel on Yom Kippur (a Jewish religious holiday).
1973/--/-- 26 - Endangered Species Act
1973/--/-- 26 - Film actor Al Pacino stars as an undercover policeman in Serpico.
1973/--/-- 26 - Great Britain, Denmark and Ireland become full-fledged members of the EEC.
1973/--/-- 26 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho share the Nobel Peace Prize.
1973/--/-- 26 - Juan D. Peron returns to power as president of Argentina.
1973/--/-- 26 - Nixon resigns over Watergate
1973/--/-- 26 - Novelist, poet, and feminist Erica Jong publishes Fear of Flying.
1973/--/-- 26 - OPEC begins an oil embargo against Europe, the U.S. and Japan.
1973/--/-- 26 - Pop recording artist Billy Joel releases his first album Piano Man.
1973/--/-- 26 - Senator Sam Ervin, Jr. heads a committee to investigate the Watergate break-in.
1973/--/-- 26 - Solzhenitsyn "Gulag Archipelago"
1973/--/-- 26 - Swedish actor Max Von Sydow stars in the supernatural film The Exorcist.
1973/--/-- 26 - The American Indian Movement occupy the site of Wounded Knee in a political protest.
1973/--/-- 26 - The Arab-Israeli War ends after 18 days with a UN negotiated cease-fire.
1973/--/-- 26 - The Paris Peace Accords end the Vietnam War.
1973/--/-- 26 - The Pioneer 10 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Jupiter.
1973/--/-- 26 - The Skylab manned orbiting laboratory is launched.
1973/--/-- 26 - The U.S. begins a total military withdrawal from South Vietnam.
1973/--/-- 26 - The Washington Post receives the Pulitzer Prize for reporting the Watergate scandal.
1973/--/-- 26 - The World Trade Center in New York City becomes the tallest building in the world.
1973/--/-- 26 - Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns after he is charged with accepting bribes.
1973/--/-- 26 - Vietnam War ends
1973/--/-- 26 - War Powers Act
1973/--/-- 26 - Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed for demanding the Nixon tapes.
1973/10/-- 26 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL OAKLAND (4)
1974/--/-- 27 - A military coup in Portugal leads to democratic reforms.
1974/--/-- 27 - American tennis player Chris Evert wins a record 56 consecutive matches.
1974/--/-- 27 - American tennis player Jimmy Connors wins the U.S. Open tournament for the first time.
1974/--/-- 27 - American writer Stephen King publishes the horror novel Carrie.
1974/--/-- 27 - An army of life-size pottery figures is discovered in a Ch'in dynasty tomb in China.
1974/--/-- 27 - Archbishop Makarios is deposed, prompting a Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
1974/--/-- 27 - Baseball player Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's record of 714 home-runs.
1974/--/-- 27 - Emperor Haile Selassie is deposed in a military coup in Ethiopia.
1974/--/-- 27 - Former astronaut John Glenn is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1974/--/-- 27 - General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte becomes president of Chile.
1974/--/-- 27 - Gerald R. Ford (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1974/--/-- 27 - Helmut Schmidt becomes chancellor of West Germany.
1974/--/-- 27 - Isabel Peron becomes president of Argentina after the death of her husband.
1974/--/-- 27 - James Michener publishes Centennial, a historical novel of the American West.
1974/--/-- 27 - Konstantinos G. Karamanlis becomes prime minister of Greece.
1974/--/-- 27 - Patricia Hearst is abducted by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).
1974/--/-- 27 - Portugal recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau.
1974/--/-- 27 - President Ford grants Richard Nixon a pardon for any crimes committed in office.
1974/--/-- 27 - President Giscard d'Estaing appoints Jacques Chirac prime minister of France.
1974/--/-- 27 - President Nixon resigns; Gerald R. Ford is inaugurated as the 38th U.S. president.
1974/--/-- 27 - Reiner Werner Fassbinder "Ali-- Fear Eats the Soul"
1974/--/-- 27 - South African golfer Gary Player achieves the Grand Slam.
1974/--/-- 27 - Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the West.
1974/--/-- 27 - The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach President Nixon.
1974/--/-- 27 - The Mariner 10 spacecraft passes within 438 miles of the planet Mercury.
1974/--/-- 27 - The Sears Tower in Chicago surpasses the World Trade Center as the tallest building.
1974/--/-- 27 - The crisis on Cyprus causes the collapse of the military regime in Greece.
1974/--/-- 27 - Willy Brandt is forced to resign after an East German spy is discovered on his staff.
1974/--/-- 27 - Yitzhak Rabin succeeds Golda Meir as prime minister of Israel.
1974/10/-- 27 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (1) AL OAKLAND (4)
1975/--/-- 28 - American novelist Saul Bellow publishes Humboldt's Gift.
1975/--/-- 28 - American writer E.L. Doctorow publishes Ragtime.
1975/--/-- 28 - Bobby Fischer refuses to defend his chess title; Anatoly Karpov is made champion.
1975/--/-- 28 - Brazilian soccer star Pele ends his retirement to play for the New York Cosmos.
1975/--/-- 28 - Civil war breaks out after the Portuguese withdraw from Angola.
1975/--/-- 28 - Civil war breaks out in Lebanon between Muslim and Christian forces.
1975/--/-- 28 - Communist Pathet Lao declare Laos the People's Democratic Republic.
1975/--/-- 28 - Cyprus is partitioned into Greek and Turkish zones.
1975/--/-- 28 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova defects to the U.S.
1975/--/-- 28 - Dutch Guiana gains its independence as the Republic of Suriname.
1975/--/-- 28 - Eritrean rebels begin their fight for independence in Ethiopia.
1975/--/-- 28 - Football player O.J. Simpson scores a record 23 touchdowns in one season.
1975/--/-- 28 - Gen. Yakubu Gowon is deposed in a military coup in Nigeria.
1975/--/-- 28 - Juan Carlos I becomes king of Spain after the death of General Francisco Franco.
1975/--/-- 28 - Michael Bennett directs and choreographs the Broadway musical A Chorus Line.
1975/--/-- 28 - Mozambique wins independence from Portugal; Samora Machel becomes the president.
1975/--/-- 28 - North Vietnamese forces overrun Saigon, which is renamed as Ho Chi Minh City.
1975/--/-- 28 - Papua New Guinea becomes independent from Australian administration.
1975/--/-- 28 - President Mujibur Rahman is killed in a military coup in Bangladesh.
1975/--/-- 28 - President N'Garta Tombalbaye of Chad is killed in a coup d'etat.
1975/--/-- 28 - Prime Minister Pol Pot begins a reign of terror in Kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 28 - Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer begin the PBS MacNeil/Lehrer news analysis program.
1975/--/-- 28 - Saudi King Faisal is assassinated; he is succeeded by his brother Khalid.
1975/--/-- 28 - Singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen releases the rock album Born to Run.
1975/--/-- 28 - South Vietnam capitulates; a mass exodus of Boat People begins.
1975/--/-- 28 - South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam
1975/--/-- 28 - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975/--/-- 28 - Steven Spielberg's film Jaws sets new box-office records.
1975/--/-- 28 - Taiwanese leader Chiang Kai-shek dies; he is succeeded by Chiang Ching-kuo.
1975/--/-- 28 - The Helsinki accords pledge the signatory nations to respect human rights.
1975/--/-- 28 - The Khmer Rouge win control of Cambodia and rename the country Kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 28 - The Republic of Comoros declares its independence from France.
1975/--/-- 28 - The Suez Canal reopens after being closed to shipping for eight years.
1975/--/-- 28 - U.S. Marines recapture the U.S. freighter Mayaguez from Kampuchean forces.
1975/--/-- 28 - U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts linkup during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
1975/10/-- 28 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1976/--/-- 29 - A severe earthquake in China kills over 600,000.
1976/--/-- 29 - Actor Jack Nicholson wins the Academy Award for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
1976/--/-- 29 - Artist Christo completes Running Fence, a curtain spanning 24 miles of countryside.
1976/--/-- 29 - Black American writer Alex Haley publishes Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
1976/--/-- 29 - Black student protestors are massacred at Soweto in South Africa.
1976/--/-- 29 - Chinese leaders Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung die; Hua Kuo-feng assumes power.
1976/--/-- 29 - Finnish runner Lasse Viren wins the Olympic 5,000- and 10,000-m races for the second time.
1976/--/-- 29 - Isabel Peron is deposed; Jorge Rafael Videla becomes president of Argentina.
1976/--/-- 29 - Israeli commandos rescue hijacked airplane passengers at Entebbe, Uganda.
1976/--/-- 29 - James Callaghan succeeds Harold Wilson as prime minister of Britain.
1976/--/-- 29 - Jim Henson's Muppet Show debuts on television.
1976/--/-- 29 - Jose Lopez Portillo y Pacheco is elected president of Mexico.
1976/--/-- 29 - Mario Soares is elected prime minister of Portugal for the first time.
1976/--/-- 29 - Robert De Niro stars in Martin Scorcese's film Taxi Driver.
1976/--/-- 29 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci wins three gold medals at the Montreal Olympics.
1976/--/-- 29 - Separatist leader Rene Levesque becomes premier of Quebec.
1976/--/-- 29 - Suarez Gonzalez becomes prime minister of Spain after the first election in 41 years.
1976/--/-- 29 - Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg wins the first of five Wimbledon championships.
1976/--/-- 29 - Sylvester Stallone's film Rocky wins the Academy Award as best picture.
1976/--/-- 29 - The Sex Pistols punk rock group is formed in England.
1976/--/-- 29 - The South African homeland of Transkei becomes independent.
1976/--/-- 29 - The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.
1976/--/-- 29 - The first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurs in Philadelphia.
1976/--/-- 29 - The pro-Soviet MPLA government seizes power in Angola aided by Cuban troops.
1976/--/-- 29 - U.S. Viking spacecraft land on Mars.
1976/--/-- 29 - Viking 1 & 2 land on Mars
1976/10/-- 29 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1977/--/-- 30 - American golfer Tom Watson wins the Masters and British Open tournaments.
1977/--/-- 30 - American hurdler Edwin Moses begins a winning streak of 90 consecutive races.
1977/--/-- 30 - American poet and novelist Wendell Berry, publishes The Unsettling of America.
1977/--/-- 30 - Black politician Andrew Young is appointed as U.S. ambassador to the UN.
1977/--/-- 30 - Carter is inaugurated as the 39th U.S. president; Mondale becomes vice-presicent.
1977/--/-- 30 - Comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen directs Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.
1977/--/-- 30 - Edward (Ed) Koch becomes mayor of New York City for the first time.
1977/--/-- 30 - General Zia ul-Haq deposes prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Pakistan.
1977/--/-- 30 - George Lucas "Star Wars"
1977/--/-- 30 - George Lucas directs the first Star Wars space fantasy film.
1977/--/-- 30 - James E. Carter, Jr. (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1977/--/-- 30 - Jean Bedel Bokassa is crowned Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
1977/--/-- 30 - John Travolta stars in the disco film Saturday Night Fever.
1977/--/-- 30 - Menachem Begin succeeds Yitzhak Rabin as prime minister of Israel.
1977/--/-- 30 - Morarji Randchhadji Desai succeeds Indira Gandhi as prime minister of India.
1977/--/-- 30 - Rock 'n roll performer Elvis Presley dies.
1977/--/-- 30 - Seveteen-year old American jockey Steve Cauthen rides a record 487 winners.
1977/--/-- 30 - South Africa grants independence to the African homeland of Bophuthatswana.
1977/--/-- 30 - The Fianna Fail party returns to power under John Lynch in the Republic of Ireland.
1977/--/-- 30 - The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas becomes independent as Djibouti.
1977/--/-- 30 - The first Apple II personal computer is marketed in the U.S.
1977/10/-- 30 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1978/--/-- 31 - Afghanistan president Mohammad Daud Khan is killed in a Marxist coup.
1978/--/-- 31 - American auto racer Mario Andretti wins the Formula One Grand Prix championship.
1978/--/-- 31 - American golfer Nancy Lopez wins a record five straight tournaments.
1978/--/-- 31 - American writer John Irving publishes The World According to Garp.
1978/--/-- 31 - Antonio Guzman becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
1978/--/-- 31 - Boxer Larry Holmes defeats Ken Norton for the heavyweight championship.
1978/--/-- 31 - Britain grants independence to Tuvalu, Dominica, and the Solomon Islands.
1978/--/-- 31 - Italian politician Aldo Moro is kidnapped and murdered by Red Brigade terrorists.
1978/--/-- 31 - Jerry Falwell founds the Moral Majority
1978/--/-- 31 - Michael Cimino directs the controversial Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter.
1978/--/-- 31 - More than 900 members of a religious cult commit suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.
1978/--/-- 31 - Pieter Willem Botha becomes prime minister of South Africa.
1978/--/-- 31 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian Pope in more than 500 years.
1978/--/-- 31 - President Carter oversees the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel.
1978/--/-- 31 - Punk Rock
1978/--/-- 31 - The Pompidou Center art museum (the Beaubourg) is opened in Paris.
1978/--/-- 31 - The United States and Panama renew the Panama Canal treaties.
1978/--/-- 31 - The balloon Double Eagle II completes the first Atlantic crossing.
1978/--/-- 31 - The first human test-tube baby is born in England.
1978/--/-- 31 - The murder of opposition leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro sparks uprisings in Nicaragua.
1978/--/-- 31 - Yiddish-language writer Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1978/--/-- 31 - personal computer
1978/10/-- 31 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1979/--/-- 32 - Abel Muzorewa becomes the first black prime minister of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
1979/--/-- 32 - Algerian president Houari Boumedienne dies; he is succeeded by Chadli Benjedid.
1979/--/-- 32 - American novelist William Styron publishes Sophie's Choice.
1979/--/-- 32 - American tennis player John McEnroe wins his first U.S. Open championship.
1979/--/-- 32 - American tennis player Tracy Austin wins the U.S. Open championship at age 16.
1979/--/-- 32 - An accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant causes a near-disaster.
1979/--/-- 32 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita opens on Broadway.
1979/--/-- 32 - British runner Sebastian Coe sets world records at 800 m, 1,500 m, and the mile.
1979/--/-- 32 - Charles Haughey succeeds John Lynch as president of the Republic of Ireland.
1979/--/-- 32 - Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff plays for the L.A. Aztecs.
1979/--/-- 32 - Ex-prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed in Pakistan.
1979/--/-- 32 - Francis Ford Coppola directs the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now.
1979/--/-- 32 - Gen. Saddam Hussein succeeds Gen. al-Bakr as president of Iraq.
1979/--/-- 32 - IRA terrorists assassinate Lord Mountbatten in Ireland.
1979/--/-- 32 - Islamic fundamentalist Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran.
1979/--/-- 32 - Jean Bedel Bokassa is deposed in the Central African Republic.
1979/--/-- 32 - Jose Eduardo dos Santos succeeds Agostinho Neto as president of Angola.
1979/--/-- 32 - Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman prime minister.
1979/--/-- 32 - Morocco annexes Western Sahara; the Polisario Front fight for independence.
1979/--/-- 32 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979/--/-- 32 - Pioneer 11 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Saturn.
1979/--/-- 32 - Quarterback Roger Staubach leads NFL passing, completing 267 out of 461 passes.
1979/--/-- 32 - Revolution in Iran; Americans held hostage
1979/--/-- 32 - Shehu Shagari becomes president of Nigeria.
1979/--/-- 32 - Sixty-six U.S. embassy employees are taken hostage by Iranian students in Tehran.
1979/--/-- 32 - South Korean president Park Chung Hee is assassinated.
1979/--/-- 32 - Soviet troops occupy Afghanistan in support of Babrak Karmal's Marxist regime.
1979/--/-- 32 - Soviets lose war in Afganistan
1979/--/-- 32 - Tanzanians and Ugandan exiles invade Uganda; dictator Idi Amin Dada flees.
1979/--/-- 32 - The Gossamer Albatross flies across the English Channel under human-power.
1979/--/-- 32 - The Mujaheddin begin a guerrilla war against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
1979/--/-- 32 - The Sandinistas seize control in Nicaragua.
1979/--/-- 32 - The Shah of Iran flees the country; Iran is proclaimed an Islamic republic.
1979/--/-- 32 - The first case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is reported.
1979/--/-- 32 - Vietnamese forces invade Kampuchea and overthrow the Pol Pot government.
1979/--/-- 32 - Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft rendezvous with the planet Jupiter.
1979/10/-- 32 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL BALTIMORE (3)
1980/--/-- 33 - "War on Drugs" jails 1/5 of young black men
1980/--/-- 33 - An earthquake in Algeria kills 20,000.
1980/--/-- 33 - Border disputes erupt into the Gulf war between Iran and Iraq.
1980/--/-- 33 - Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard regains the world welterweight title from Roberto Duran.
1980/--/-- 33 - British writer D.M. Thomas publishes The White Hotel.
1980/--/-- 33 - CD, VCR, & cable become common
1980/--/-- 33 - Chun Doo Hwan becomes president of South Korea.
1980/--/-- 33 - Ex-Beatle John Lennon is fatally shot outside his Manhattan apartment.
1980/--/-- 33 - Ex-Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle is assassinated.
1980/--/-- 33 - Gen. Kenan Evren leads a military coup in Turkey.
1980/--/-- 33 - Hollywood remakes B-movies and comix
1980/--/-- 33 - Jose Napoleon Duarte becomes president of El Salvador; the guerilla war continues.
1980/--/-- 33 - Lech Walesa heads Solidarity, the first union movement in a communist country.
1980/--/-- 33 - Liberian president William R. Tolbert is killed in a military coup led by Samuel Doe.
1980/--/-- 33 - Love Canal, a chemically contaminated area in N.Y., is declared a disaster area.
1980/--/-- 33 - Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman star in the film Kramer v. Kramer.
1980/--/-- 33 - Milton Obote is reelected as president of Uganda.
1980/--/-- 33 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington state killing eight people.
1980/--/-- 33 - Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus is produced.
1980/--/-- 33 - Rhodesia is renamed Zimbabwe; Robert Mugabe becomes prime minister.
1980/--/-- 33 - Robert Redford directs the Academy Award winning film Ordinary People.
1980/--/-- 33 - Solidarity in Poland
1980/--/-- 33 - Ted Turner begins the Cable News Network, offering round-the-clock news.
1980/--/-- 33 - The American television soap opera Dallas is first broadcast.
1980/--/-- 33 - The Castro regime deports more than 120,000 Cubans to Florida.
1980/--/-- 33 - The FBI's ABSCAM investigation convicts seven members of the U.S. Congress.
1980/--/-- 33 - The New Hebrides become independent from Britain and France as Vanuatu.
1980/--/-- 33 - The U.S. boycotts the Moscow Olympics to protest the invasion of Afghanistan.
1980/--/-- 33 - The U.S. makes an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages.
1980/--/-- 33 - The Voyager 1 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Saturn.
1980/01/20 33 - President Carter announces that U.S. athletes will not attend Summer Olympics in Moscow unless Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan.
1980/02/02 33 - FBI's undercover bribery investigation, code named Abscam, implicates a U.S. senator, seven members of the House, and 31 other public officials.
1980/04/25 33 - U.S. mission to rescue hostages in Iran is aborted after a helicopter and cargo plane collide at the staging site in a remote part of Iran and 8 serviceme
are killed.
1980/10/-- 33 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (4) AL KANSAS CITY (2)
1981/--/-- 34 - Andreas Panpandreou becomes prime minister of Greece.
1981/--/-- 34 - Anwar al-Sadat is killed; Hosni Mubarak becomes president of Egypt.
1981/--/-- 34 - Argentinian president Roberto Viola is ousted from power by General Galtieri.
1981/--/-- 34 - Black American novelist Toni Morrison publishes Tar Baby.
1981/--/-- 34 - Britain grants independence to Belize.
1981/--/-- 34 - Burt Lancaster stars in Louis Malle's film Atlantic City.
1981/--/-- 34 - Dan Rather replaces Walter Cronkite as anchorman for the CBS Evening News.
1981/--/-- 34 - Filmmaker Steven Spielberg directs Raiders of the Lost Ark.
1981/--/-- 34 - Francois Mitterand succeeds Valery Giscard d'Estaing as president of France.
1981/--/-- 34 - Garret FitzGerald becomes prime minister of Ireland.
1981/--/-- 34 - Gen. Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland; Solidarity leaders are arrested.
1981/--/-- 34 - Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda star in the film On Golden Pond.
1981/--/-- 34 - Hu Yao-bang becomes head of the Chinese Communist party.
1981/--/-- 34 - Indian-born author Salman Rushdie publishes Midnight's Children.
1981/--/-- 34 - Jeane Kirkpatrick becomes U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
1981/--/-- 34 - Jerry Rawlings leads a military coup in Ghana.
1981/--/-- 34 - John Hinckley, Jr. shoots and seriously wounds President Reagan.
1981/--/-- 34 - Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded by a Turkish gunman.
1981/--/-- 34 - Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th U.S. president; Bush becomes vice-president.
1981/--/-- 34 - Ronald W. Reagan (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1981/--/-- 34 - Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed the first woman U.S. Supreme Court justice.
1981/--/-- 34 - Ten IRA prisoners starve themselves to death as a political protest.
1981/--/-- 34 - The Prince of Wales marries Lady Diana Spencer in Britain.
1981/--/-- 34 - The U.S. hostages in Iran are released.
1981/--/-- 34 - The first 24-hour music video channel MTV (Music Television) is launched in the U.S.
1981/--/-- 34 - The first Space Shuttle is launched, crewed by John Young and Robert Crippen.
1981/01/02 34 - U.S. hostages held in Iran are released after 444 days in captivity.
1981/03/30 34 - President Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr.
1981/09/25 34 - Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court justice.
1981/10/-- 34 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL NEW YORK (2)
1982/--/-- 35 - Alvaro Alfredo Magana becomes president of El Salvador.
1982/--/-- 35 - American writer Paul Theroux publishes The Mosquito Coast.
1982/--/-- 35 - Amin Gemayel becomes the president of Lebanon after his brother Bashir is killed.
1982/--/-- 35 - Argentina invades the Falkland Islands; Britain and Argentina are at war.
1982/--/-- 35 - Black American writer Alice Walker publishes The Color Purple.
1982/--/-- 35 - British troops recapture the Falkland Islands from Argentina.
1982/--/-- 35 - Dustin Hoffman stars in Sydney Pollack's film Tootsie.
1982/--/-- 35 - Felipe Gonzalez Marquez becomes prime minister of Spain.
1982/--/-- 35 - Filmmaker Steven Spielberg directs E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
1982/--/-- 35 - Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad seizes control of Bangladesh in a bloodless coup.
1982/--/-- 35 - Javier Perez de Cuellar succeeds Kurt Waldheim as secretary-general of the UN.
1982/--/-- 35 - Pop singer Michael Jackson records the all-time best-selling album Thriller.
1982/--/-- 35 - soul composer Quincy Jones wins 5 Grammy Awards.
1982/--/-- 35 - Princess Grace of Monaco dies in a car accident.
1982/--/-- 35 - Richard Attenborough directs the Academy Award winning film Gandhi.
1982/--/-- 35 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies; he is succeeded by Yuri Andropov.
1982/--/-- 35 - Sylvester Stallone stars in the first Rambo film First Blood.
1982/--/-- 35 - The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) fails to win ratification in the U.S.
1982/--/-- 35 - The Israeli army invades the Lebanon and drives the PLO guerrillas out of Beirut.
1982/--/-- 35 - The UN maintains a peace between Christian and Muslim militia in Lebanon.
1982/--/-- 35 - The Voyager 2 spacecraft transmits pictures to the U.S. of the planet Saturn.
1982/--/-- 35 - Two satellites are deployed during the first operational Space Shuttle mission.
1982/--/-- 35 - USA Today, the first daily newspaper aimed at readers throughout the U.S., is launched.
1982/06/30 35 - Deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution passes without the necessary votes.
1982/10/-- 35 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL MILWAUKEE (3)
1983/--/-- 36 - American runner Joan Benoit sets a world record in the Boston Marathon.
1983/--/-- 36 - American writer William Kennedy publishes Ironweed.
1983/--/-- 36 - American zoologist Dian Fossey publishes her book Gorillas in the Mist.
1983/--/-- 36 - An EPA report projects the irreversible onset of the greenhouse effect.
1983/--/-- 36 - An Infrared Astronomical Satellite is launched to probe deep into the Milky Way.
1983/--/-- 36 - Australia II becomes the first non-American yacht to win the America's Cup.
1983/--/-- 36 - Benedetto Bettino Craxi becomes the socialist prime minister of Italy.
1983/--/-- 36 - Car bombs destroy the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut.
1983/--/-- 36 - Civil war breaks out in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese and Tamil separatists.
1983/--/-- 36 - Ex-Nazi Klaus Barbie (the butcher of Lyon) is extradited from Bolivia to France.
1983/--/-- 36 - Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr. becomes the first black American astronaut.
1983/--/-- 36 - Libyan forces invade Chad; French troops aid the Chad government.
1983/--/-- 36 - Manuel Antonio Noriega becomes commander of Panama's Defense Forces.
1983/--/-- 36 - Mario Soares becomes the socialist prime minister of Portugal.
1983/--/-- 36 - Nigerian president Shehu Shagari is deposed in a military coup led by Gen. Buhari.
1983/--/-- 36 - Opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated in the Philippines.
1983/--/-- 36 - President Reagan proposes a space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
1983/--/-- 36 - Raul Alfonsin is elected as president of Argentina, ending military rule.
1983/--/-- 36 - Reagan proposes "Star Wars" and increases military funding
1983/--/-- 36 - Sally K. Ride becomes the first U.S. woman astronaut.
1983/--/-- 36 - Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson star in the film Terms of Endearment.
1983/--/-- 36 - The Labor party returns to power in Australia; Robert Hawke becomes prime minister.
1983/--/-- 36 - The Soviets shoot down a South Korean airliner that violated its airspace.
1983/--/-- 36 - The compact disc is introduced for recorded music.
1983/--/-- 36 - U.S. forces invade Grenada to protect U.S. lives after a military coup on the island.
1983/--/-- 36 - Yitzhak Shamir succeeds Menachem Begin as prime minister of Israel.
1983/10/-- 36 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (1) AL BALTIMORE (4)
1983/10/25 36 - U.S. invades Caribbean island of Grenada after a coup by Marxist faction in the government.
1984/--/-- 37 - A toxic gas leak kills 2,000 and affects an estimated 150,000 in Bhopal, India.
1984/--/-- 37 - American pop singer Madonna releases her album Like a Virgin.
1984/--/-- 37 - American track athlete Carl Lewis wins four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics.
1984/--/-- 37 - Brian Mulroney succeeds John Turner as prime minister of Canada.
1984/--/-- 37 - Britain and China sign a treaty for the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1984/--/-- 37 - Britain grants independence to Brunei.
1984/--/-- 37 - British prime minister Margaret Thatcher escapes injury in an IRA bomb attack.
1984/--/-- 37 - Comedian Eddie Murphy stars in the film Beverly Hills Cop.
1984/--/-- 37 - Congress forbids official U.S. aid for the anti-Sandinista contras in Nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 37 - Czech writer Milan Kundera publishes The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
1984/--/-- 37 - Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman vice-presidential candidate in the U.S.
1984/--/-- 37 - Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by Sikh extremists.
1984/--/-- 37 - Indian troops attack the Golden Temple at Amritsar to remove militant Sikhs.
1984/--/-- 37 - Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
1984/--/-- 37 - Rap music
1984/--/-- 37 - Rev. Desmond Tutu, opponent of apartheid, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984/--/-- 37 - Rock singer Bob Geldof organizes Band Aid to raise funds for African famine victims.
1984/--/-- 37 - Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra is elected president of Nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 37 - Shimon Peres succeeds Yitzhak Shamir as prime minister of Israel.
1984/--/-- 37 - Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies; he is succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko.
1984/--/-- 37 - Space Shuttle astronauts test the manned maneuvering unit and move freely in space.
1984/10/-- 37 - World Series NL SAN DIEGO (1) AL DETROIT (4)
1985/--/-- 38 - Albanian premier Enver Hoxha dies; he is succeeded by Ramiz Alia.
1985/--/-- 38 - American film actor Rock Hudson dies from AIDS.
1985/--/-- 38 - American humorist and radio personality Garison Keillor publishes Lake Wobegon Days.
1985/--/-- 38 - American rock singer Tina Turner wins three Grammy Awards.
1985/--/-- 38 - Baseball player Pete Rose beats Ty Cobb's 57-year-old record of 4,191 base hits.
1985/--/-- 38 - Boxer Michael Spinks defeats Larry Holmes for the heavyweight championship.
1985/--/-- 38 - Clint Eastwood directs and stars in the Western film Pale Rider.
1985/--/-- 38 - French agents sink the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
1985/--/-- 38 - Gorbachev unravels Soviet system
1985/--/-- 38 - Jose de Sarney becomes the first civilian president of Brazil in 21 years.
1985/--/-- 38 - Julius Nyerere is succeeded as president of Tanzania by Ali Hassan Mwinyi.
1985/--/-- 38 - Maj.-Gen. Mohammed Buhari is ousted in a bloodless coup in Nigeria.
1985/--/-- 38 - Mexico City is heavily damaged by an earthquake.
1985/--/-- 38 - Middleweight champion Marvin Hagler defends his title against Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns.
1985/--/-- 38 - Palestinian terrorists hijack the Italian liner Achille Lauro.
1985/--/-- 38 - Premier Gorbachev initiates glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).
1985/--/-- 38 - President Milton Obote is ousted in a military coup in Uganda.
1985/--/-- 38 - President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev hold their first summit meeting.
1985/--/-- 38 - President Reagan is inaugurated for his second term of office.
1985/--/-- 38 - Robert Redford and Meryl Streep star in the film Out of Africa.
1985/--/-- 38 - Running back Walter Payton sets an all-time NFL record for rushes of 14,860 yards.
1985/--/-- 38 - Shiite Muslim terrorists hijack a TWA Boeing 727 jet to Beirut.
1985/--/-- 38 - Soviet premier Konstantin Chernenko dies; he is succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.
1985/--/-- 38 - Sudanese prime minister Gaafar al-Nimeiry is ousted in a military coup.
1985/--/-- 38 - The North American Soccer League (NASL) suspends operations.
1985/--/-- 38 - World chess champion Anatoly Karpov is defeated by 21-year-old Gary Kasparov.
1985/01/21 38 - Reagan's second inauguration.
1985/10/-- 38 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (3) AL KANSAS CITY (4)
1986/--/-- 39 - A hole in the ozone layer is detected over Antarctica.
1986/--/-- 39 - A major nuclear-reactor disaster takes place at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.
1986/--/-- 39 - Benazir Bhutto, daughter of hanged premier Ali Bhutto, is jailed in Pakistan.
1986/--/-- 39 - Boxer Mike Tyson wins his first world heavyweight title.
1986/--/-- 39 - Civil war breaks out in Yemen (Aden).
1986/--/-- 39 - Comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen directs Hannah and Her Sisters.
1986/--/-- 39 - Corazon Aquino is elected president of the Philippines; Ferdinand Marcos is exiled.
1986/--/-- 39 - Cyclist Greg LeMond becomes the first American to win the Tour de France.
1986/--/-- 39 - Czech tennis player Ivan Lendl wins the French Open and U.S. Open tournaments.
1986/--/-- 39 - Filmmaker Oliver Stone directs the Vietnam War film Platoon.
1986/--/-- 39 - Golfer Jack Nicklaus at age 46 becomes the oldest man ever to win the U.S. Open.
1986/--/-- 39 - Ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky raises the season point record to 215.
1986/--/-- 39 - Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1986/--/-- 39 - President Francois Mitterrand appoints Jacques Chirac prime minister of France.
1986/--/-- 39 - President Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti goes into exile.
1986/--/-- 39 - Sayid Mohammad Najibullah replaces Marxist president Babrak Karmal in Afghanistan.
1986/--/-- 39 - Select committees are established to investigate the Iran-Contra Affair.
1986/--/-- 39 - Singer-actress Bette Midler stars in Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
1986/--/-- 39 - Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is assassinated.
1986/--/-- 39 - The European Space Agency's Giotto spacecraft passes within 335 miles of Halley's comet.
1986/--/-- 39 - The Food and Drug Administration approve the commercial use of the drug interferon.
1986/--/-- 39 - The Soviet Union launches the first Mir space station.
1986/--/-- 39 - The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after launch, killing the crew of seven.
1986/--/-- 39 - The ultralight Voyager aircraft flies around the world nonstop in 9 days.
1986/--/-- 39 - U.S. aircraft attack military and terrorist related targets in Libya.
1986/--/-- 39 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Uranus.
1986/--/-- 39 - Yitzak Shamir succeeds Shimon Peres as prime minister of Israel.
1986/01/28 39 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. It is the worst accident in the history of the U.S. space program.
1986/04/14 39 - U.S. bombs military bases in Libya in effort to deter terrorist strikes on American targets.
1986/10/-- 39 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1986/11/-- 39 - Iran-Contra scandal breaks when White House is forced to reveal secret arms-for-hostages deals.
1987/--/-- 40 - A Wall Street stock market crisis spreads to Tokyo and London.
1987/--/-- 40 - American author Tom Wolfe publishes the satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.
1987/--/-- 40 - Basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Wilt Chamberlain's points record.
1987/--/-- 40 - Bettino Craxi resigns; Giovanni Goria becomes prime minister of Italy.
1987/--/-- 40 - Colonel Oliver North testifies at the Iran-Contra Affair hearings.
1987/--/-- 40 - Congress holds public hearings in Iran-Contra investigation.
1987/--/-- 40 - East German leader Erich Honecker makes his first visit to West Germany.
1987/--/-- 40 - Filmmaker Brian De Palma directs The Untouchables.
1987/--/-- 40 - Gary Hart ends his Presidential campaign after allegations of sexual impropriety.
1987/--/-- 40 - Libya suffers a military defeat in Chad.
1987/--/-- 40 - More than 400 die in clashes between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi police at Mecca.
1987/--/-- 40 - Ozone "hole" found over Antartica
1987/--/-- 40 - Takeshita Noburu succeeds Nakasone Yasuhiro as the Japanese premier.
1987/--/-- 40 - The U.S. frigate Stark is hit by an Iraqi missile in the Persian Gulf.
1987/--/-- 40 - West Bank Palestinians launch an intifadah (uprising) against the Israeli occupation.
1987/--/-- 40 - Writer Gore Vidal publishes Empire, a novel of 19th-century U.S. politics.
1987/06/12 40 - In a speech in Berlin, President Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" and open Eastern Europe to political and
economic reform.
1987/10/-- 40 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (3) AL MINNESOTA (4)
1987/12/08 41 - Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty, the first arms-control agreement to reduce the superpowers' nuclear weapons.
1988/--/-- 41 - A cease-fire is declared in the war between Iran and Iraq.
1988/--/-- 41 - Armenia is hit by a severe earthquake, killing tens of thousands.
1988/--/-- 41 - Australia celebrates its Bicentennial.
1988/--/-- 41 - Austrian president Kurt Waldheim is exonerated of involvement in war crimes.
1988/--/-- 41 - Benazir Bhutto is elected prime minister of Pakistan.
1988/--/-- 41 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari is elected president of Mexico.
1988/--/-- 41 - Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez publishes Love in the Time of Cholera.
1988/--/-- 41 - Dennis Connor skippers a U.S. catamaran to beat New Zealand in the America's Cup.
1988/--/-- 41 - Details of the U.S. Stealth bomber are released for the first time.
1988/--/-- 41 - Discovery becomes the first Space Shuttle to be launched after the Challenger disaster.
1988/--/-- 41 - Dustin Hoffman stars in the Academy Award winning film Rain Man.
1988/--/-- 41 - Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1988/--/-- 41 - German tennis player Boris Becker leads West Germany to victory in the Davis Cup.
1988/--/-- 41 - German tennis player Steffi Graf becomes the 3rd woman to win the Grand Slam.
1988/--/-- 41 - Hungarian leader Janos Kadar is removed from power; Karoly Grosz assumes his post.
1988/--/-- 41 - Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie publishes The Satanic Verses.
1988/--/-- 41 - Jesse Jackson fails in a second attempt to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
1988/--/-- 41 - Lee Teng-hui succeeds Chiang Ching-kuo as president of Taiwan.
1988/--/-- 41 - Military leaders seize control in Haiti after elections are held.
1988/--/-- 41 - Military leaders seize power in Burma (Myanmar).
1988/--/-- 41 - Nationalist uprisings breakout in the Soviet republic of Armenia.
1988/--/-- 41 - Pakistani leader Gen. Muhammed Zia ul-Haq is killed in a plane crash.
1988/--/-- 41 - Roh Tae Woo succeeds Chun Doo Hwan as president of South Korea.
1988/--/-- 41 - South African leader Nelson Mandela is removed from prison for hospital treatment.
1988/--/-- 41 - Sprinter Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal after a drug test.
1988/--/-- 41 - Steven Spielberg produces the innovative animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
1988/--/-- 41 - Television evangelist Jim Bakker is convicted of fraud and conspiracy.
1988/--/-- 41 - The Geneva Accords set the timetable for Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1988/--/-- 41 - The Iraqis are accused of using chemical weapons against the Kurds.
1988/--/-- 41 - The U.S. cruiser Vincennes accidentally shoots downs an Iranian airliner.
1988/--/-- 41 - The U.S. indict Panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega for drug offenses.
1988/--/-- 41 - Vietnam announces it will withdraw all its forces from Kampuchea.
1988/10/-- 41 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL OAKLAND (1)
1988/12/02 42 *** Thompson, Gayle (Dalton) - Died Breast Cancer Campbellsville, KY Elk Springs cemetery, Monticello, KY
In 1946 Transportation was by:
Foot
Bicycle
Train
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Propeller airplane
Helicopter
By 1988 Transportation was by:
Jet
nuclear ship
Space travel
in addition.
In 1946 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
By 1988 Communications was by:
FAX
E-Mail
in addition.
By 1988 Communications by:
Telegraph
had been discontinued.
In 1946 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
Gas
Refrigeration
By 1988 Food Preparation was by:
Electric
Dish washer
Garbage Disposal
in addition.
By 1988 Food Preparation by:
Wood
had been discontinued.
In 1946 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1946 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1946 War Making was by:
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Assault rifle
tank
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
Missiles
Atomic Bomb
By 1988 War Making was by:
Biological agents
Helicopter
Satellites
in addition.
In 1946 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
Radio Signals
Radar
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:00