1946 The first rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM

1948 Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont)

1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2718

1956 The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the U.S. national motto.

1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized

1960 The first AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)

1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year

1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London

1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)

1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away

1969 Barbra Striesand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas

1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct

1970 Smirnova discover asteroid 1835 Gajdariya, 2032 Ethel & 2349 Kurchenko

1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"

1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162

1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon

1974 House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment of Nixon

1975 Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit still not found

1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball

1980 British New Hebrides becomes independent & takes name Vanuatu

1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif

1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg

1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil

1984 Soap opera "Santa Barbara," premieres on NBC

1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission

1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)

1990 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money

1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993

1935 The first ever 'Penguin' paperback books goes on sale

1984 First flight of space shuttle 'Discovery'

1863 The birth of Henry Ford, American car manufacturer

1898 The birth of Henry Moore, English sculptor

1940 The birth of Sir Clive Sinclair, British Inventor

1947 The birth of Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor

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