1950 NYC's Port Authority opens

1954 Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter was featured on Walt Disney’s TV series for the first time. Crockett was played by Fess Parker.

1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands

1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"

1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel

1962 Vaughn Meader's "The first Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 wks

1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag

1965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouths of Ganges River, Bangladesh

1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes first rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)

1965 In the first raid on a major North Vietnamese industrial target, U.S. Air Force planes destroy a thermal power plant at Uong Bi, l4 miles north of Haiphong. The plant reportedly supplied about 15 percent of North Vietnam's total electric power production.

1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus

1966 One of the greatest names in children’s television and movie production died on this day. Walt (Walter Elias) Disney died in Burbank, California. Mr. Disney was 65 years old.

1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"

1967 The Silver Bridge across the Ohio River collapsed during rush hour. Dozens of cars fell into the icy water. Forty-six people lost their lives in the accident, and many others were injured.

1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones

1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261

1970 Soviet Venera 7 is first spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)

1973 Jean Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive in southern Italy five months after his kidnapping.

1973 Pirates of Caribbean opens at Disneyland

1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when the ship runs aground

1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama

1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages

1981 NASA launches Intelsat V

1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, and 4 others convicted of bribery

1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar

1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB

1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet

1985 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed

1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift

1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure

1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks

1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter

1993 Downing Street Declaration on Northern Ireland issued

1993 GATT Uruguay Round completed

1994 Diane Modahl banned from Athletics for Drug Use, in the UK

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