1962 JFK throws out first ball at Washington's new DC Stadium

1963 Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen (posthumously)

1964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched

1965 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK

1966 Anaheim Stadium for the Calif Angels opens

1966 OAO 1, the first orbiting astronomical observatory, launched

1967 First Boeing 737 rolls out

1967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down

1968 Martin Luther King Jr, buried

1968 New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect

1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference

1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles

1970 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court

1971 Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK

1973 Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme

1973 Pablo Picasso artist, dies near Mougins, France, at 91

1974 Discovery Island opens

1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record

1975 Frank Robinson first black baseball mgr (Cleveland, beats NY 5-3)

1976 In Ecuador a 6.7 earthquake killed 8 and injured 46 in Esmeraldas area.

1976 Phil Ochs rock producer, dies

1976 US and Russia agreed on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use

1977 Frank Milan actor (The Witness), dies at 71

1978 W Liller discovers asteroid #2449

1979 204th &final episode of "All in the Family"

1980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6

1981 Gen Omar Bradley last 5-star general, dies in NY at 88

1981 Scott Gwartz was born

1981 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru

1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth

1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster

1985 Near Coast of Central Chile a 7.5 quake occurred one person died from a heart attack, several people injured

1986 "Dallas" announces it will revive the killed Bobby Ewing character

1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California

1987 Francis C Denebrink US Naval officer who participated in (WW I, WW II, and Korea dies at 90

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