1957 Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee

1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban

1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication

1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts

1959 King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence

1962 Comedian Ernie Kovacs is killed in a car crash in Los Angeles.

1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow

1964 USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown

1966 First black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)

1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1967 Coup in Togo

1967 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show

1968 "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 293 performances

1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam

1968 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)

1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album

1978 Former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dies in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66.

1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam

1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium

1980 Togo's constitution becomes effective

1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minutes for 30 minutes

1982 Hank Aaron &Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame

1982 Seventy-eight people die in Washington, D.C., when an Air Florida 737 crashes into a bridge after takeoff and falls into the Potomac River.

1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course

1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428

1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen

1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams

1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each

1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking

1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain

1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq

1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½ year run

1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence

1990 L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected Afro-American govenor, is sworn in in Richmond, Virginia.

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