1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host

1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris

1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM

1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan

1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival

1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House

1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected first black mayor of Newark, NJ

1970 Race riots in Miami Florida

1971 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida

1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD

1976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa

1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

1977 Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.

1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist, dies at age 65.

1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"

1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit

1979 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275

1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners after their War

1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal

1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10

1983 Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany

1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)

1986 1 day general strike in South Africa

1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens

1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins (why?)

1989 "Ghostbusters II" premiers

1989 4 golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open are made all on the 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)

1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR

1991 NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" (through the 23rd)

1997 Corporation du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie takes over the former CN line between Chandler and Gaspé, Que. This is a non profit corporation owned by local municipalities. Operation of the line is sub-contracted to the Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs which commenced operation between Matapedia and Chandler, Que in December 1996.

1951 People's Party founded in India

1972 Burglars caught inside the Watergate building

1858 The birth of King Gustav V of Sweden

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