1960 Hugh Hefner opens the first Playboy Club in Chicago.

1960 JFK makes "missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue

1960 Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago

1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 meters

1964 LBJ reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter

1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime

1968 Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy

1968 Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves).

1968 First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)

1968 US end regular flights with nuclear bombs

1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1972 Hank Aaron becomes first baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year

1972 Hank Aaron becomes the first baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year.

1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party

1980 Gordie Howe becomes first NHL player to score 800 career goals

1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 hours 55 minutes trapped in an elevator, England

1980 Yigal Allon, former Israeli foreign minister and supporter of Israeli independence, dies at age 61.

1984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down

1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he is leaving office after serving over 15 years.

1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107 vs England on Test Cricket debut

1988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations

1988 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs

1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1992 The Professional Spring Football League begins

1996 A Peruvian jetliner crashes in the Andes, killing all 123 people aboard.

1996 Daniel Green is convicted of murdering the father of basketball star Michael Jordan during a 1993 holdup, and is sentenced to life in prison.

1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup

1996 Soyuz TM-23, lands

1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal

1956 Pakistan becomes an Islamic republic

1736 The birth of Ann Lee, Founder of the American Society of Shakers

1736 The birth of Gioacchino Rossini, Italian operatic composer

1792 The birth of John Holland, American inventor of the submarine

1904 The birth of Jimmy Dorsey, US bandleader

1940 The birth of Mario Andretti, Italian racing driver

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