1962 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands

1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)

1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa

1964 1st driverless trains run on the London Underground

1964 First driverless trains run on the London Underground

1964 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open

1965 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews win

1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated

1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Fort Pierce-Vero Beach FL (IND) 1st broadcast

1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit

1967 Philadelphia '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds

1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens

1968 US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled

1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting

1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole

1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy

1971 US Lieutenant Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life

1971 WNJT TV Channel 52 in Trenton NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting

1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike

1972 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub

1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 1-19)

1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter

1974 Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai

1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)

1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances

1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely

1976 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2928

1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England

1976 Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen", premieres in London

1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1979 Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper

1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia

1979 Pioneer 11 launched towards Jupiter

1981 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez

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