1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan

1957 British prime minister Anthony Eden resigns.

1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR

1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"

1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR

1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV

1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die

1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

1964 21 Panamanians and three U.S. soldiers die when anti-US rioting erupts in the Panama Canal Zone.

1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panama Canal Zone

1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

1965 Near Hope BC a mountain avalanche kills 4 drivers on highway near Hope.

1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism

1967 Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond

1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon

1968 The U.S. unmanned space probe Surveyor Seven lands on the lunar surface.

1969 Concorde jetliner's first test flight (Bristol England)

1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted

1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes speaks to reporters by phone, stating that a biography of him by author Clifford Irving is phony.

1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire while at anchor in Hong Kong

1973 Heather Berson is born in California

1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon

1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike

1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes

1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts

1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK

1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established

1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin

1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

1980 Saudi Arabia executes 63 people for their part in a raid on Mecca's Grand Mosque the previous November.

1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal

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