1948 Gen. Eisenhower said he could not accept a presidential nomination from either party; four years later, he ran as a Republican and was elected 34th president of the United States.

1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens

1948 Test debut of Neil Harvey, vs India at Adelaide

1949 In Regina Saskatchewan fire destroys the transit barns, torching most of its 38 buses and streetcars

1950 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous first Facts published

1950 Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel

1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung

1950 The Israeli Knesset approves a resolution to make Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

1951 3rd Emmy Awards Alan Young Show, Alan Young &Gertrude Berg

1952 Death of John Treloar who, along with CEW Bean, did more than any other individual to establish and develop the Australian War Memorial Treloar served as director of the Memorial from 1920 to 1952

1953 Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 16 years 357 days

1954 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP

1954 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)

1956 Montreal Canadiens hockey player Jean Beliveau appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine

1958 Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez flees Venezuela, Larrazábal takes power

1958 Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies

1960 Piccard &Walsh in bathyscaph "Trieste" reach 10,900 meters in Mariana Trench

1961 Supreme Court rules cities &states have right to censor films

1961 Venezuela adopts constitution

1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR

1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria &Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb

1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections

1964 Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in New York City NY

1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo &83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea

1968 The North Korean Navy seizes the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, detaining its crew on suspicion of espionage.

1968 The USS Pueblo was seized in the Sea of Japan by North Korea, which claimed the ship was on a spy mission. The crew was held for 11 months before being released on Dec. 22, 1968.

1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"

1970 Australia's first amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)

1970 Dolle Mina burns her bra in Amsterdam

1970 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1

1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1971 -80ºF (-62ºC), Prospect Creek Camp AK (US record)

1971 The temperature at Prospect Creek, Alaska, dropped to 80 degrees below zero, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States.

1972 Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi

1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest

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