1942 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

1943 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia

1944 First female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force

1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN

1949 USAF plane began first nonstop around-the-world flight

1950 Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in New York NY

1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia

1951 The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which limits a president to two terms of office, is ratified.

1952 Britain announces that it has its own atomic bomb.

1952 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference

1953 Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA

1954 First typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy MA

1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records

1955 "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances

1955 The first aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith

1956 Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge

1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia

1960 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating

1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion

1961 Mohammed V, King of Morocco, dies.

1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation

1965 Dutch Government of Marijnen falls

1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion

1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission

1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album

1971 Ottawa starts program to raise Francophone numbers in the Canadian Armed Forces to at least 28%

1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125

1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m

1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris

1975 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 performances

1975 A televised kidney transplant is shown

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next Page »