1947 General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170 million in aid for European Jews

1951 In Korea Canadian troops with 27th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade make first contact with enemy.

1954 Pittsburgh begins the first mass inoculation of children against polio in the US, using the vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk.

1954 Syrian army drives out President Adib el-Shishakli

1955 Edgar Faure forms French government

1956 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow

1956 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin

1957 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances

1958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels

1958 Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina

1958 Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)

1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open

1959 KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton CA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1964 Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City

1965 Comedian Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame, dies in Santa Monica, CA.

1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president

1965 In Ottawa the Government approves collective bargaining and arbitration in the Civil Service but takes it away when it is convenient

1966 Aldo Moro forms Italian government

1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government

1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda

1967 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified

1967 John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes," premieres in New York NY

1967 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner

1967 US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War

1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points

1969 Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine

1969 Start of hovercraft service between Vancouver and Nanaimo; first scheduled hovercraft service in Canada didn't last too many logs in the water

1970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)

1970 Holy Eucharist given by women for first time in Roman Catholic service

1971 Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak

1971 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year as a result of several speeding tickets

1971 Lieutenant Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina

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