1956 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union

1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference

1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites

1958 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms

1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY

1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan

1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, first produced in Berkeley CA

1962 Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV

1963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1

1966 Australia introduces first decimal currency postage stamps

1967 Aretha Franklin records "Respect"

1967 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up

1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central

1971 Movie "Ben Hur" first shown on television

1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House

1972 John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week

1972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon

1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1977 The Unity Bank of Canada and Provincial Bank of Canada merge

1978 First "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments

1980 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances

1980 13th Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY

1980 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia

1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut

1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay

1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden

1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam

1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"

1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic

1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster

1989 World's first satellite Skyphone opens

1990 An Indian Airlines jetliner crashes while landing in southern India, killing 94 passengers and crew.

1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some

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