1946 In Ottawa William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 tells Parliament about Soviet spy ring activities in Canada

1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan

1950 The Canadian government lifts the last wartime price controls on goods; brought in during World War II

1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1955 Pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced

1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland

1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister

1958 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones Great Britain

1958 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN

1958 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA

1958 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA

1958 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra

1959 Antonio Segni forms Italian government

1961 Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever

1961 Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 First US female world figure skating champion (Tenley Albright)

1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks

1965 Canada flies its new red and white Maple Leaf flag, retiring the Red Ensign.

1965 John Lennon passes his driving test

1965 Singer Nat King Cole dies in Santa Monica, CA, at age 45.

1967 D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber

1967 First anti-bootleg recording laws enacted

1967 French Diadème 1-D satellite launches into Earth orbit

1970 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater

1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102

1970 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo

1971 After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal

1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos

1972 President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time

1973 Ottawa restricts oil exports to US, due to possible shortages.

1973 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)

1976 12th Winter Olympics games close at Innsbruck, Austria

1977 Royal Bank transfers three head office departments from Montreal to Toronto.

1977 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election

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