1957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra

1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France

1961 Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel

1961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 wks

1961 JFK provides US military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam

1967 Beatles' Apple Music signs its first group-Grapefruit

1967 SST prototype "Concorde" first shown (France)

1968 The Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years.

1969 The secretary of the Moscow writer's union declares that nudity as displayed in the popular play "Oh! Calcutta!" is a sign of decadence in Western culture

1972 Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on the Moon

1973 Karen and Richard Carpenter received a gold record for their single, Top of the World.

1975 First class postage rises from $0.10 to $0.13

1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry

1981 Muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick

1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center

1981 UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Secretary-General

1983 First visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)

1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC

1985 The most expensive non-oil acquisition in U.S. history took place. General Electric Company agreed to buy RCA Corporation for $6.3 billion.

1990 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga TN, due to fog

1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space

1991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape

1997 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of federal district court issues preliminary injunction forcing Microsoft to stop, at least temporarily, requiring manufacturers to install its Internet Explorer on PCs.

1939 Douglas Fairbanks Snr., star of stage and screen, dies

1803 The birth of Hector Berlioz, French composer

1931 The birth of Rita Moreno, American actress and dancer

2005 205 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire north of London causes widespread damage.

2006 The Holocaust conference is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

2007 In Algiers, Algeria, two bombs explode within ten minutes of each other, the first near a UN office and the other detonated close to the Algerian Supreme Court. The official death count for both blasts stands as 31.

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