1954 7-time winner of the Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th

1955 USS Albany and USS William Wood begin to provide disaster relief to citizens of Volos, Greece, ending 21 April

1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III

1957 Charles Funk of Funk & Wagnalls, dies at 76

1957 In the Fox Islands, Alaska a 7.5quake was one of th elargest qukes in the U.S. (man they get a lot up in that area)

1962 Eino Oksanen wins his 3rd Boston Marathon

1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900 m

1963 "Hot Spot" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway

1965 T.A.M.I. Show premiers in London

1966 Roberta Bignay becomes the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon

1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)

1967 US Surveyor III lands on Moon

1968 Dedication of the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra, by Prime Minister John Gorton The memorial is a copy of the original unveiled at Port Said, Egypt, by former Prime Minister William Morris Hughes in 1932

1968 The first American since 1957 wins the 72nd Boston Marathon

1969 "Oliver," Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn win 51st Acadamy Awards

1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day)

1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; first manned lab in orbit

1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2328 Robeson

1973 Barbra Striesand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow"

1974 P Wild discovers asteroids #1938 Lausanna & #2040 Chalonge

1975 India launches first satellite with help of USSR

1976 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #2114 Wallenquist

1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel

1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Bkln NY)

1979 J C Muzzio discovers asteroid #3666

1980 Ethel Wilson actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88

1982 Alberto Salazar wins the Boston Marathon in a record 2 8 51

1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery

1982 Sally Ride announced as first woman astronaut

1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit

1983 Lorene Scott actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74

1984 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3451

1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs first appears in print (Nature mag)

1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth

1986 Alvin Childress actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78

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