1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 &stays #1 for 5 weeks

1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational

1965 Robert Downey, Jr. born.

1966 Canada starts five-year, $350,000 project to help increase wheat production in Kenya; an environmental fiasco.

1966 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland

1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1967 Dutch De Young government forms

1967 Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station

1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances

1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned

1968 Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis

1969 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart

1970 Byron Foulger actor (Capt Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70

1970 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson

1971 "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances

1971 Marine clay under houses liquifies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Qu‚bec)

1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating

1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr (Rep-D-NY), dies at 63

1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th

1975 C5A Galaxy on military charter crashes, taking 155 lives (Saigon)

1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes

1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155

1976 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin

1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2369 Chekhov

1976 Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand

1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar born.

1979 Edgar Buchanan actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77

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

1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan

1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1981 Brad Johnson actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56

1981 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)

1982 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little

1983 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship North Carolina State beats Houston 54-52

1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched

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