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

1982 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad

1982 Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce

1984 Bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold

1984 Canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the same Olympics; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male

1984 In Sarajevo Bosnia Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games

1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion

1986 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad

1986 Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater

1986 Mário Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's first civilian president

1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins

1988 First documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador

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