1957 FBI arrests Jack &Myra Sobel, charged with spying for the USSR

1959 American Airlines beings the first scheduled transcontinental U.S. passenger air service, featuring the new Boeing 707 jetliner.

1959 Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council

1959 The first transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (Los Angeles to New York for $301)

1961 Military coup in El Salvador

1961 President John F. Kennedy makes history by holding the first presidential news conference simulcast live on radio and TV.

1961 The first live, nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK)

1961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released

1962 The Bank of Montreal acquires Newfoundland Savings Bank0

1963 Wilson Kettle who lived in Newfoundland dies at age 102, he has 582 living descendants

1964 Beatles first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)

1964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched

1968 Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in New York City NY

1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris

1970 Robert Altman's "M*AS*H," premieres

1971 Charles Manson &3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders

1971 Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state

1971 Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada

1971 Philadelphia mint's first trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar

1973 On the British Columbia coast the Freighter Irish Stardust grounds north of Vancouver Island., spilling 378,000 litres of fuel oil, spill spreads 320 km south

1974 Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey

1974 Christian Barnard transplants first human heart without removal of old

1974 Start of major flooding in Brisbane in which 13 die

1976 Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut India vs New Zealand Auckland

1977 In New York Rene Levesque 1922-1987 tells Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that 'separation is inevitable'

1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat

1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan

1979 Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture, and that federal powers be reduce

1979 Pope John Paul II's first overseas trip as supreme pontiff

1980 Bani Sadr elected President of Iran

1980 Dutch Government demands boycott of Olympics

1980 Finance Minister Abolhassan Bani-Sadr is elected president of Iran.

1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft

1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail &deported

1981 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death

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