1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates

1953 Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov

1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA

1956 A Chatham Ontario restaurant is fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students

1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory

1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket

1959 "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances

1959 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain

1959 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN

1959 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA

1959 Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit

1959 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA

1960 8th winter Olympics games close at Squaw Valley CA

1960 US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4

1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor

1962 Rae Dawn Chong wasborn at Edmonton Alberta, daughter of actor Tommy Chong. Chong, she appeared in the film Quest for Fire

1964 The opening of Toronto International Airport terminal building, much later this event confirms the fact that Toronto is the center of the universe

1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes

1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air

1969 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain

1969 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of USSR

1969 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR

1969 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA

1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge

1971 53rd PGA Championship Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his 2nd golf grand slam

1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident

1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China

1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders

1974 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms

1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1974 Taiwan police shoot into crowd

1974 The US and Egypt re-establish diplomatic ties for the first time since 1967.

1975 EG signs accord of Lomé with 46 developing countries

1975 More than 40 people die when a London subway train crashes into the end of a tunnel.

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