1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II

1950 Australia commits military units to United Nations Force in Korea

1952 First aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany

1954 Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer

1956 Charles Dumas, makes first high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif

1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed

1958 Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm

1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with first nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)

1962 First flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner

1963 Beatles' first song "From Me to You" hits the UK charts

1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

1964 First draft of Star Trek's pilot "The Cage" released

1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15

1966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities

1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem

1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge

1969 First Jewish worship service at White House

1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days

1972 Supreme Court-death penalty usually was "cruel &unusual punishment"

1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)

1975 20.57 cm (8.10") of rainfall, Litchville, N. Dakota (state 24-hr rec)

1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain

1977 Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults

1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East

1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended

1983 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

1984 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI

1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA

1985 STS 51-F vehicle moves to the launch pad

1985 Vancouver businessman Jimmy Pattison pays $2.229,000 for a yellow Rolls-Royce formerly owned by the Beatles

1989 Susan Lucci loses the daytime emmy for 10th straight year

1990 Marla Maples father sues the National Enquirer for $12M

1995 Lana (Julia Jean) Turner actress and WWII poster girl died

1995 the Memphis Mad Dogs play their first CFL game, against the Calgary Stampeders; part of a failed Canadian Football League attempt to expand to the US.

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