1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m

1963 First Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) &release first single, "Come on"

1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits

1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors

1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem

1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination

1969 Bob Dylan &Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special

1969 Tommy James &the Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"

1970 The Who's Tommy is performed at NY's Lincoln Center

1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes first transfer to orbiting Salyut

1972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel

1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

1978 Nadine Hernandez is born in California

1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched

1979 Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion

1981 Iraq's only nuclear reactor is destroyed by Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers.

1982 Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II &Queen Elizabeth

1983 A Gilmore &P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3152

1986 Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1

1990 Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains

1991 Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson

1965 Monarchy restored in Morocco

1990 Hungary announces plan to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact

1799 The birth of Alexander Pushkin, Russian playwright and poet

1848 The birth of Paul Gauguin, French artist; lived with Van Gogh for some time

1909 The birth of Jessica Tandy, American actress; 'Driving Miss Daisy'

2006 Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and seven of his aides are killed in a U.S. air raid just north of the town of Baqouba, Iraq.

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