1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1964 Beatles first appearance in Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)

1964 Plans for the World Trade Center announced (New York City NY)

1965 H L de Vries appointed Dutch Governor of Suriname

1966 Indira Gandhi is elected prime minister of India.

1966 Indira Gandhi, daughter of the late Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, became prime minister of India.

1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison

1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1967 Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada

1968 The United States and Soviet Union agreed on a draft of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

1969 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

1969 Soyuz 5 returns to Earth

1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC

1974 "The $6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV

1974 Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord

1974 The Secretary officially named the Navy's fourth nuclear-powered carrier the Carl Vinson

1975 "The Jeffersons" spin-off from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS

1977 On his last day as U.S. President, Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better known to U.S. troops as Tokyo Rose, from her acts of treason during WWII.

1977 Australia's worst rail crash, at Granville, Sydney, kills 83 when train hits concrete bridge.

1977 Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG

1978 Geoff Boycott captains England for the first time, vs Pakistan Karachi

1978 Roof of 3-year-old Civic Center in Hartford CT collapses (no injuries)

1978 Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB

1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce

1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1

1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000

1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets

1981 Iran agrees in principle to the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months.

1981 Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity

1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball

1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise

1986 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth

1986 AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1

1986 Fierce fighting in South Yemen's capital city of Aden interrupts evacuation of foreigners.

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