1955 José Ramon Guizado becomes President of Panama

1957 The first electric watch introduced, Lancaster PA

1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland

1958 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs South Africa at Cape Town

1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state

1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education &Labor

1961 The U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.

1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome

1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro

1963 WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"

1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE

1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes

1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion

1967 Jack Ruby, the man who shot suspected JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies in a Dallas hospital.

1967 WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting

1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey

1969 Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress

1970 "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 84 performances

1970 Marxist government takes over in Congo

1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million

1974 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain

1974 Burma accepts its constitution

1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1977 Apple Computer incorporated

1977 Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)

1978 Chandrasekar takes 6-52 &6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win

1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce

1980 Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," is killed by a servant in northern Kenya.

1984 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson

1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews

1986 The Skytrain commences operation between Vancouver and New Westminster, BC.

1987 Former Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City NY

1987 Rock &Roll Hall of Fame inducts first female artist Aretha Franklin

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