1964 Rolling Stones' first tour as headline act (with Ronettes)

1965 Canada part of new NATO anti-submarine destroyer squadron operating in the Atlantic

1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV

1967 Two homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140

1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 &stays #1 for 8 weeks

1968 Dr N E Shumway performs the first US adult cardiac transplant operation

1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon

1969 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"

1971 Berkeley chemists announces the first synthetic growth hormones

1971 In Vancouver BC, Neil Young returns to Canada for his first concerts since pre-stardom days; named best male singer and best composer this year

1972 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

1972 US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley

1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR

1973 "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock

1974 "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio

1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike

1975 "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv

1975 AM America premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host

1976 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Republic of China

1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million

1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols

1977 Prince Andrew starts attending Lakefield College School near Peterborough, Ontario for two terms; second in line to the British throne

1978 Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada announces plans to move head office from Montreal to Hog Town (Toronto)

1978 The first postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)

1978 US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary

1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India

1980 Philadelphia Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat

1981 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals

1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission

1984 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh &Lillee

1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns

1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg

1986 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland

1986 STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31 seconds because of liquid oxygen valve problem

1987 Astronomers at University of California observe the birth of a galaxy

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