1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River

1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races

1956 Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing

1957 Mario A Gianini creator of the maraschino cherry, dies

1959 "Today" show goes abroard the first time (Paris France)

1959 Gordon Armstrong inventor of baby incubator, dies

1960 France grants Togo independence

1960 The first atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)

1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays

1961 UK grants Sierra Leone independence

1962 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #2334 Cuffey & #3474

1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in the US

1965 Alan Bunce actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61

1965 Edward R Murrow newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57

1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper

1967 Expo '67 opens in Montreal

1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title

1970 Arthur Shields actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73

1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2469 Tadjikistan

1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth

1972 Kwame Nkrumah president of Ghana, dies at 62

1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported

1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107

1977 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2234 Schmadel

1979 George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"

1981 Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach

1981 The first female soccer official is hired by the NASL

1982 Tom Tully actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85

1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins

1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing Walter Johnson

1984 Asteroid #3625 discovered

1984 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana

1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO

1987 US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II

1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China

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