1955 The first official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum

1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic

1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records

1962 50th Australian Mens Tennis Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)

1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea

1964 Teamsters negotiate first national labor contract

1965 Rock group The Who releases first album "I Can't Explain"

1968 In Sicily a 6.0 earthquake in several s in western Sicily were destroyed by this strong shock. It toppled houses, hospitals, medieval castles, and churches

1969 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union

1970 Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria

1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt

1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"

1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels

1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel

1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican

1973 President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam

1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon suspends American hostilities in North Vietnam, as peace negotiations move forward.

1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC

1974 Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures

1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence

1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)

1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford

1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit

1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"

1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman

1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV

1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands

1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard

1983 Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs India

1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours

1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak

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