1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20

1968 P Wild discovers asteroids #1773 Rumpelstilz, #1830 Pogson,

1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed

1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy

1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their first concert

1970 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help

1970 Paul McCartney's first solo album "McCartney"

1974 Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from CWU, Ellensburg, WA

1975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea Natl Day)

1977 E F Helin & S J Bus discovers asteroid #2135 Aristaeus

1978 Bill Rodgers wins his 2nd Boston Marathon

1983 First National Coin Week begins

1983 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters

1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket

1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter

1983 Wayne Gretsky scores 7 points in a playoff game

1987 Julius Erving becomes the 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points

1989 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week

1989 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros

1991 Dow Jones closes for first time over 3,000

1991 Railroad workers go on strike in the US

1524 Giovanni Verrazano discovers New York Harbor. Real estate prices immediately increase.

1961 Bay of Pig invasion The US try to start a people's revolution to overthrow Fidel Castro. They fail

1970 The Apollo XIII mission makes it back to earth It was the mission which popularized the phrase "Houston, we have a problem" as an on-board explosion threatened to kill the spacemen... "Houston, we HAD a problem"

1975 The government of Cambodia surrends to the Khmer Rouge

1983 India launched its first satellite

1894 The birth of Nikita S Khrushchev, Russian leader

1918 The birth of William Holden, American actor

2005 Twelve holidaymakers are killed in southern Switzerland when a bus carrying twenty seven people plunges 656 feet into a ravine.

2006 A suicide bombing by Islamic Jihad in Tel Aviv kills nine people and injures dozens.

2007 The Pound Sterling hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the first time since 1992.

2007 The Pound Sterling hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the first time since 1992.

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