1968 Pres Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks

1970 Launch of Apollo 13, commanded by CAPT James A. Lovell, Jr., USN. Former naval aviator Fred W. Haise, Jr. was the Lunar Module Pilot. While 200,000 miles from Earth there was an explosion on board which forced Apollo 13 to circle the moon without landing. Mission duration was 5 days, 22 hours, and 54 minutes. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2).

1972 200,000 Hydro-Quebec workers, teachers, and hospital staff go on 2-week strike; largest in history

1978 E F Helin and G Grueff discovers asteroid #3101 Goldberger

1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala

1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harrassment

1980 Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"

1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him

1981 Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen

1983 Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate in March of 13.6% or 1,658,000 unemployed; a new record.

1984 Challenger astronauts complete first in space satellite repair

1984 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth

1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km

1986 In New York City a Canadian 1921 50 cent piece fetches a record US$22,000 at auction.

1989 Philadelphia Flyers' goalie Ron Hextall scores short-handed into an empty net

1990 Harold Ballard dies at age 86; President of Maple Leaf Gardens and the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1961

1991 Ottawa to give $15 million compensation to families of victims of 1985 Air India Flight 182 disaster

1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands

1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration

1997 In Southern Xinjiang, China a 6.2 earthquake occurred, at least 9 people killed, 89 injured, 100,000 homeless, thousands of buildings destroyed and 11,000 livestock killed in Jiashi County

1814 Former French leader Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to the island of Elba

1898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration Hearst newspapers just flourish

1899 Treaty of Paris ratified. Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US.

1941 Belgrade, in Yugoslavia, occupied by German forces during World War 2

1945 At the end of World War 2, the Red army enters the Austrian city of Vienna

1951 General MacArthur relieved of command in the Far East, over Korea

1961 Israel begins the Adolf Eichman world war II crimes trial

1970 The American Apollo 13 spacecraft launched to the Moon

1893 The birth of Dean Acheson, American statesman

1913 The birth of Oleg Cassini, French fashion designer

2006 The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.

2006 President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.

2007 Al Qaeda claims responsibility for two bomb blasts in the Algerian capital of Algiers. At least 33 people have been killed and 222 others injured.

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