1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco

1959 Radar first bounced off sun, Stanford Calif

1961 Marian Jordan radio comedienne (Fibber McGee &Molly), dies at 62

1963 Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.

1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic

1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor finally

1968 Jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champ, dies in race car

1970 J A Bruwer discovers asteroid #1794 Finsen

1970 John Wayne, a movie veteran of over 200 films, won his first and only Oscar.

1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party

1973 Vicki Lawrence got her number one single as "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" made it to the top of the pop charts.

1976 Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76

1978 Pres Carter defers production of the neutron bomb

1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water

1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis

1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec

1982 Brenda Benet actress, commits suicide by gun at 36

1983 Gavin Gordon television actor, dies at 82

1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave &Don Peterson first STS spacewalk

1984 Samuel C Engel screenwriter, dies of heart failure at 79

1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"

1989 NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules

1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norweign Sea, with about a dozen deaths

1990 30 die when a ferry flips over in Burma

1990 Farm Aid IV concert

1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway,

1990 John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal

1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations

1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa White Dutch, that is

1906 Italian volcano 'Versuvius' erupts

1933 Prohibition ends as Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 2 Amendment Everyone celebrates with a toast

1939 Italy invades Albania

1948 World Health Organisation (WHO) established

1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic Balkan crisis is considered settled once and for all

1770 The birth of William Wordsworth, English Poet

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