1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain

1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)

1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)

1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album

1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)

1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

1975 Supreme Court of Canada upholds PEI law banning non-residents from owning more than 4 hectares of land.(a small island?)

1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn

1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France

1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched

1982 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521

1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig

1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces

1984 Barbra Striesand records "Here We Are at Last"

1989 Canada updates coins with a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth.

1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time

1989 On Hawaii, a 6.1 quake (actually 2 events about 5 seconds apart) results in five people injured slightly, 5 homes destroyed and about 100 homes damaged in the Puna District. Landslides occurred in several places and blocked a road at Honomu

1990 122ø F in Phoenix Arizona

1906 First Grand Prix held at Le Mans

1975 Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud

1990 Europe begins to study ways into financially helping the USSR

1892 The birth of Pearl Buck, American novelist

1898 The birth of Willi Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer

1904 The birth of Peter Lorre, American film actor

2005 Birth of Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

2005 Death of Richard Whiteley, British journalist and television presenter (b. 1943)

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