1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands

1955 Off Clarenville Newfoundland, cable ships start laying new transatlantic telephone cable at Clarenville.

1957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system

1958 Game in KC between A's &Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado

1959 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child &My Bonnie, in Hamburg

1969 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance

1970 Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)

1973 George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World"

1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land

1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison

1977 In the Tonga Islands a 7.2 earthquake was centered approximately 2200 kilometers north of Wellington, New Zealand

1977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" released

1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced

1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill

1978 Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy

1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours

1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2

1981 John McEnroe exhibites a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbeldon

1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon

1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes

1982 Prince Chuck &Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital

1983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle

1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period

1983 The first time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle

1987 Fred Astaire actor/dancer, dies at Century City Hospital in LA at 88

1988 Dennis Day Jack Benny Show singer, dies of Lou Gehrigs disease at 71

1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium

1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit

1990 Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns

1991 Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn presents Gulf and Kuwait medals to 42 Persian Gulf War veterans; 3,600 others also to get medals.

1991 Kevin O'Connor actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56

1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines

1910 First passengers carried on the Zeppelin airship

1940 French sign armistice with Germans at Compiegne

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