1955 President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam

1955 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan

1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed

1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers

1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus

1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon GA

1963 Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron

1964 Beatles first NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)

1964 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

1964 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen

1965 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger &Marianne Faithful busted for drugs

1970 Three-month-old baby receives Canada's first successful liver transplant at Montreal's Notre-Dame Hospital

1973 The first US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1978 "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances

1978 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

1978 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner

1980 Richard Hadlee becomes New Zealand's top wicket-taker with 117

1981 Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA

1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1984 Jayne Torvill &Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics receiving all perfect scores for quality &the gold medal

1985 Defence Minister Robert Coates resigns news reports reveal he visited a nightclub featuring nude dancers and prostitutes while on ministry business in West Germany

1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages

1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel

1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours

1989 US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman

1990 In Hagersville, Ontarioa tire dump fire set by teenage boys forces hundreds of families from their homes, causes massive air pollution

1991 Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence

1991 North &South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition

1993 A pair of 10-year-olds kidnap and beat to death a two-year-old child at a Liverpool, England shopping mall.

1994 17th Olympics Winter games open in Lillehammer, Norway

1994 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston

1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo)

1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose

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