1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins

1948 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1618 Dawn

1950 Esquimalt BC Royal Canadian Navy destroyers HMCS Cayuga, Athabaskan, and Sioux leave Esquimalt for Pearl Harbor escorted by cruiser Ontario; to come under UN control during Korean War.

1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel

1951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ

1962 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule

1963 First Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87

1966 National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting

1966 NYC transit fare rises from 15. to 20.

1966 Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy

1968 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce

1969 Rod Laver wins his 4th Wimbeldon championship

1969 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park

1970 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109

1970 An Air Canada DC-8 en route from Montreal to Los Angeles makes a heavy landing at Malton AIrport, bounces and loses one starboard engine; in the pilot's attempt to take off and land again the other starboard engine falls off and the aircraft crashes 10 km west of Malton (Pearson International Airport) ; all 109 aboard killed.

1971 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)

1973 "Live &Let Die," James Bond film premiers

1973 Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps

1975 Arthur Ashe wins men's single championship at Wimbeldon

1975 Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule

1977 Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power

1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan

1982 An Oklahoma City bank goes into receivership. Its receiver, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., begins paying off $271 million in insured deposits as examiners uncover a morass of bad loans to wildcat drillers and others made by Penn Square, based in a shopping center

1982 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas

1983 In Turkey a 6.1 quake resulted in 5 people killed and 25 injured in the Biga area

1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA)

1985 117ø F (47ø C), St George, Utah (state rec) (103ø spread, UT 1985)

1985 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of the globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min

1986 Nancy Reagan cuts red, white &blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty

1987 Australian Pat Cash wins men's singles at Wimbledon

1989 Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage &knocks himself out

1991 Ottawa seizes Bank of Credit and Commerce Canada's assets and closes all four branches; result of international money-laundering investigation.

1994 A report of provincial inquiry says Montreal police force poorly supervised, badly trained and racist.

1946 Bikini swimsuit first demonstrated at a Paris fashion show

1977 Pakistans leader, Mr Bhutto, deposed by the military

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