1954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland

1956 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

1956 Buddy Holly's first formal recording session

1956 Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR

1957 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms

1957 India annexes Kashmir

1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan as Israeli minister of Defense

1958 Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"

1959 Italy government of Fanfani resigns

1961 "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1

1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "Twist" is impure &bans it from all Catholic schools

1962 Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard

1962 US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mile (37,000-km)

1963 "Milk &Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 543 performances

1965 South Vietnam military coup under General Nguyen Khanh

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die

1971 Charles Manson convicted of murder

1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes

1972 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute

1973 Actor Edward G. Robinson dies at age 79.

1973 Belgium government of Leburton forms

1976 Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals

1976 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon

1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai &Marine Tcherkasova are first to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki

1978 International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit

1978 Mario Soares forms Portuguese government

1978 Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40

1979 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland

1979 Former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller dies in New York at age 70.

1979 Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands

1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro!

1980 Israel &Egypt establish diplomatic relations

1980 Prime Minister Joe Clark warns USSR that Canada will boycott Summer Olympics in Moscow if Soviet troops do not leave Afghanistan

1981 Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval

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