1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched

1965 The first atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched

1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon

1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open

1966 Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus

1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum

1967 Natal British Columbia a coal mine explosion kills 15 and injures 9 miners

1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn NY (PBS) begins broadcasting

1968 N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks

1968 North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks

1969 Ottawa to reduce Canadian forces in Europe but remain in NATO alliance.

1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try

1972 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2142 Landau

1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states

1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris

1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend

1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit

1975 Statistics Canada reports record $2.19 billion paid out in 1974 for unemployment insurance benefits.

1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3493

1976 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game

1977 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth

1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point

1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter

1977 Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time

1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall", Rich Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win

1978 European market & China signs trade agreement

1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami FL to Washington DC

1979 Belgium's Martens government forms

1979 Jane M Byrne (D) elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago IL

1980 France performs nuclear test

1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25", with 1 leg

1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area

1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point

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