1956 The first non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC

1959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as first Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as first Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)

1960 -127 F (-88ø C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)

1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil

1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)

1963 John Pennel is first to pole-vault 17'

1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon

1967 Liberian flag designed

1967 Mobs from China repeatedly attack British positions along 27km Hong Kong border and are driven off with tear gas.

1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power

1968 France becomes a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.

1970 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison

1972 Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame

1975 Royal Commission in Australia finds women in public service work in poor conditions and are underpaid and had limited promotion prospect

1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth

1979 UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps

1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder

1981 Mark David Chapman, convicted assassin of ex-Beatle John Lennon, is sentenced in New York to 20-years-to-life in prison.

1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather

1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes

1989 Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune

1990 Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City

1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party

1991 Ukraine declares independence from the USSR

1992 Hurricane Andrew hits the Florida coast, killing 20 people and causing billions of dollars in property damage.

1995 Microsoft holds a party for 2,000 industry dignitaries on its Redmond, WA campus, as it introduces the Windows 95 personal computer operating system to the world. (Our webmaster was one of those who attended the event, along with Bill Gates and Jay Leno.)

1981 Mark Chapman begins a life sentence for killing 'Beatles' legend John Lennon

1724 The birth of George Stubbs, British painter

1789 The birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer

1872 The birth of Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer and caricaturist

1948 The birth of Jean Michel Jarre, French 'electronic music' musician

1957 The birth of Stephen Fry, British writer and comedian

2005 Hong Kong High Court Judge Michael Hartmann rules that sodomy laws were unconstitutional.

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