1969 Beatles appoint Eastman &Eastman, as general counsel to Apple

1969 Yassar Arafat takes over as chairman of PLO

1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1971 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard &Mitchell)

1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt

1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil

1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC

1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria

1972 In Central Italy a 4.8 earthquate and a series of hundreds of relatively minor shocks near the Italian town of Ancona on the Adriatic coast caused wide-spread panic, some damage, several injuries, and one death

1972 Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported

1973 "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances

1973 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled

1974 Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands

1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his first word, at 2½ months

1974 Gas rationing ends in Netherlands

1974 Patricia Hearst (19), daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army

1975 A strong earthquake rocks Guatemala and Honduras, killing more than 22,000 people.

1975 In Northeastern China a 7.4 earthquate caused heavy damage and casualties reported in Yingkou-Haicheng area.

1976 12th Winter Olympics games opens in Innsbruck, Austria

1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala &Honduras

1976 A 7.5 earthquake was centered about 160 kilometers northeast of Guatemala City. Over 23,000 deaths

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released

1977 Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed"

1980 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Bani-Sadr as president of Iran.

1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47 meters) Tacoma WA

1982 Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees

1983 José Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium

1983 Pop singer-drummer Karen Carpenter dies in Downey, California, at age 32.

1983 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

1984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168 meters) Las Vegas

1985 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture

1985 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons

1986 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)

1987 Flamboyant pianist-entertainer Liberace dies at his Palm Springs, California, home at age 67.

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