1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed

1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect

1969 After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts

1969 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball

1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released

1970 End of US commercial whale hunting

1970 Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election

1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain

1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington DC

1972 Wilt Chamberlain is the first NBA player to score 30,000 points

1973 Robyn Smith becomes first female jockey to win a major race

1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November

1974 Ian &Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs New Zealand cricket at Wellington

1974 Sikorsky's triple-turbine helicopter, the YCH-53E, largest and most powerful helicopter in the western world, made its first flight

1974 The BC Court of Appeals rules Indian child can be adopted by non-Indian parents without losing status

1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides

1975 17th Grammy Awards I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win

1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1

1976 The Alberta Government founds Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund with windfall oil royalties

1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards

1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles

1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery

1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater

1980 Patti Smith &MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI

1980 Snow falls in the sunshine state of Florida

1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances

1981 Alberta cuts oil production to protest Ottawa's National Energy Policy the federal government replies by a compensation charge as Energy Minister Marc Lalonde matches Alberta cutbacks by a "Lougheed Levy" to subsidize imports

1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison (he dies)

1981 IRA member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. (Sands died 65 days later.)

1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic

1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees

1982 5th Emmy Sports Awards presentation

1982 New York Times raises its price from 25¢ to 30¢

1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data

1983 Tamara McKinney becomes first US woman skier to win the World Cup

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