1949 House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 140-47. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949

1950 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS

1951 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing

1951 San Francisco City Hall dome fire

1952 Ian Craig makes New South Wales cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (New South Wales record)

1956 Britain abolishes the death penalty

1959 Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after overthrowing Batista.

1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip

1961 China uses it's first nuclear reactor

1961 First all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island VA

1961 US satellite Explorer 9 is launched

1963 C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down

1963 Please, Please Me, by The Beatles, moves to #1 on the British pop music charts, just a month after it was released.

1964 Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"

1965 Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors

1966 Bob Cowper makes 307 vs England at the MCG, 727 minute s, 20 fours

1966 End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK

1966 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria

1967 Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta

1968 Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1968 Country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL

1968 Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"

1970 Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown

1971 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, under opposition attack in the Commons, utters an apparently unparliamentary expression that he later describes as "fuddle-duddle" we all know what it really was

1972 German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed

1972 Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100

1973 West Indies vs Australia at Kingston, first time since 1955 without Sobers

1973 William Calley's murder conviction for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam

1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

1978 The first Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)

1979 George Harrison releases "Blow Away"

1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France

1980 Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record)

1982 Agatha Barbara elected as first female President of Malta

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