1953 Denmark adopts a new constitution

1956 Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const

1957 NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes

1964 Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me", group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie

1967 Israel raids Egyptian military targets. Syria, Iraq, and Jordan also entered the conflict.

1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair

1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68

1968 Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day

1969 Race riot in Hartford Connecticut

1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm

1975 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to international shipping. The canal had been closed since the 1967 war with Israel.

1975 Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)

1976 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)

1977 Coup in Seychelles

1977 The first personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale

1980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1981 Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (AIDS)

1981 George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England"

1982 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle

1983 Yannich Noah becomes first Frenchman to win French Open since WW II

1984 Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple)

1987 "Nightline" presents it's first "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3 47 AM

1989 Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires

1989 Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt"

1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched

1967 The six day war in the Middle East, between Israel and its neighbours, begins

1968 US Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles

1878 The birth of Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary

1882 The birth of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer and conductor

2005 Switzerland votes to join the Schengen area and to allow same-sex partnerships.

2007 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.

2007 A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in may, has been confirmed to be filled with thousands of victims of The Holocaust.[17]

2007 11 people are killed and 23 others injured in a train crash near Kerang in Victoria, Australia.

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