1961 Chic Black Hawks beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup

1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

1966 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain

1970 70 die in a snow crush (France)

1972 2 giants pandas arrive in the US, from China

1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)

1974 200,000 attend rock concert Calif Jam I in Ontario Calif

1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia

1980 L Brozek discovers asteroid #2696 Magion

1981 Columbia space shuttle returns [04/24]

1983 Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games

1986 Henry and Luz get married in Phillipines

1987 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves

1987 Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season

1989 Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1990 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week

1992 "Metro" opens at Minskoff theater on Broadway

1705 Isaac Newton is knighted. From then on, just call him Sir

1883 Paul Kruger becomes the first President of South Africa

1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution. Workers feel a sense of unity

1981 The first American space shutte, Columbia, returns safely to Earth

1844 The birth of Anatole France, French writer

1867 The birth of Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer

1889 The birth of Charlie Chaplin, American silent film actor and director

1921 The birth of Peter Ustinov, Bitish actor and novelist

1955 The birth of Ellen Barkin, American actress

2005 President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador declares a state of emergency in the capital city and dissolves the Supreme Court.

2006 Albert II, Prince of Monaco, reaches the North Pole, becoming the first reigning monarch ever to do so.

2006 Ireland commemorates the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising for the first time since 1971.

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