1956 French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers

1956 University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)

1958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash

1959 Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow

1959 US first successful Titan intercontinental ballistic missile

1961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC

1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel

1965 Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1

1967 Cultural Revolution in Albania

1967 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1968 10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France

1968 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam

1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one

1970 Graeme Pollock completes 274 vs Australia at Durban

1971 The First time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard)

1973 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution

1973 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edmonton

1974 Dutch speed limit set at 100 km due to oil crisis

1974 US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon

1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1976 George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"

1977 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 meter over 16 buses, near Paris

1978 Muriel Humphrey fills the U.S. senate seat of her late husband, Minnesota senator and former U.S. Vice President, Hubert Humphrey.

1978 Snowstorm hits New England (54" (137cm))

1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto

1981 "Brady Brides," debuts on NBC TV

1981 Beatles McCartney, Starr & Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon

1982 "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart

1984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army

1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings

1987 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary

1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government

1993 Former tennis great Arthur Ashe dies in New York at age 49.

1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

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