1948 Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0

1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)

1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea

1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation &discrimination

1952 "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV

1956 United DC-7 &TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128

1960 Za‹re (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium

1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

1962 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0

1962 Rwanda &Burundi become independent

1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church

1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit

1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour

1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named first black astronaut

1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco

1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City

1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze

1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse

1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY)

1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado

1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman

1976 A Naval Aviator tradition came to an end when brown shoes were stricken from the officers' and chiefs' uniforms. The tradition initially distinguished the Brown Shoe Navy of the aviators from the black shoes of the surface officers.

1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"

1977 Marvel Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group Kiss

1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)

1979 Johnny Rotten &Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury

1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy

1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification

1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale

1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut

1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)

1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump

1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason

1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK

1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl

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