1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR

1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam

1959 Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark

1960 Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil

1961 French army revolts in Algeria

1961 James Melton opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57

1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m

1962 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington (think Space Needle)

1962 Frederick Handley Page designer of first big airplane (40 seats), dies

1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for first time

1963 The Beatles and The Rolling Stones met for the first time at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England

1965 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season

1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica

1967 Dodgers first rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)

1967 Military coup in Greece

1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC

1968 Toby Halicki car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt

1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon

1970 Canadian Pacific unveils Canada's first double-deck passenger train comprising nine air-conditioned cars built by Canadian Vickers Limited at a cost of $2.8 million. The cars went into operation April 27 on the Montreal Lakeshore suburban service.

1971 Edmund Lowe actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81

1972 John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)

1972 Moonwalk in the Descartes Highlands by CAPT John W. Young, USN Commander of Apollo 16. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon. LCDR Thomas K. Mattingly II, USN was the Command Module Pilot. During the 11 day, 1 hour and 51 minute mission, 213 lbs. of lunar material was collected. Recovery by HC-1 helicopters from USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14)

1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched

1975 Bill Rodgers wins his first Boston Marathon in 2 9 55

1975 Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

1976 A Cadillac convertible, the"last" American-made rag-top automobile, rolled off the assembly line at GM’s Cadillac production facility in Detroit, MI. This ended a tradition that began in 1916.

1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing

1977 Broadway play "Annie" opens, first of 2,377 performances

1980 Bill Rodgers wins his 3rd Boston Marathon, Rosie Ruiz is disqualified as women's champ as she had not run the entire course

1982 Joe Sawyer actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80

1982 M Watt discovers asteroid #2991

1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?]

1983 Walter Slezak actor, commits suicide at his NY home at 80

1984 "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to « hour

1984 After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose"

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