1968 Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head

1968 Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President

1968 The government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work

1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers

1968 World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi

1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert

1969 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

1969 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood

1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die

1970 West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract

1971 Canada and China open diplomatic relations; exchange diplomats in both countries, and officially recognize each other's sovereignty

1972 The calculator arrives as a scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)

1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK

1973 Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame

1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV

1975 "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65

1975 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances

1975 Otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department

1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV

1976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce

1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives

1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl

1978 Harriet Tubman is first black woman honored on a US postage stamp

1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.

1979 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System

1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run

1981 Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell causes furore when he orders his brother Trevor to bowl underarm to a New Zealand batsman.

1981 Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in New York NY

1981 Dutch Antilles census is 231,932

1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq

1981 Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG

1982 Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium in Alberta .

1982 Late Night With David Letterman makes its debut on NBC-TV.

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