1951 Trade Minister C.D. Howe announces construction of a $30 million-dollar atomic reactor facility at Chalk River, Ontario.

1954 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in New York City NY

1955 First "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)

1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections

1959 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees

1959 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for first lunar fly-by, first solar orbit

1960 First redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)

1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years

1960 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony premieres

1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President

1961 Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14ºF recorded atop Haleakale

1962 Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS

1964 Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan

1964 Failed assassination attempt on President Nkrumah of Ghana

1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters

1965 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day

1965 University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath signs with the New York Jets football team for a reported $400,000.

1968 Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant

1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy

1969 FLQ bombs are discovered in Ottawa.

1970 Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam

1970 US population is 293,200,000; Black population 22,600,000 (11.1%)

1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66

1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars

1974 U.S. President Nixon signs into law a national highway speed limit of 55 miles per hour.

1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres

1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species

1978 Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey

1978 Rhino Records releases their first album "Wildmania"

1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins

1980 68th Australian Men Tennis Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62)

1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 meter butterfly (2 05.65)

1981 Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, West Indies vs Pakistan

1982 "Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 48 performances

1982 70th Australian Mens Tennis Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64)

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