1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden

1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government

1946 Dutch troops land on East Bali

1946 Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam

1946 Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA

1949 A US Air Force B-50 Superfortress, the Lucky Lady Two, lands in Texas, after completing the first non-stop around the globe flight.

1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes first nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth TX, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hours

1949 The first automatic street light (New Milford CT)

1951 National Defence publish first Canadian casualty list from Korea; six soldiers killed

1955 King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father

1956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Féz, declares independence from France

1958 The first surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days

1958 Yemen announces it will join the United Arab Republic

1962 JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing

1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game

1964 Beatles begin filming "A Hard Day's Night", George Harrison meets Patti Boyd

1965 "Sound Of Music" opens

1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam

1967 9th Grammy Awards Strangers in Night &Michele win

1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world

1968 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit

1968 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler &Bernard Ford (Great Britain)

1968 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR)

1968 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA)

1968 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria)

1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die)

1969 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony

1969 Phil Esposito becomes first NHL Player to score 100 points in a season

1969 The first test flight of the supersonic Concorde

1970 American Airlines' first flight of a Boeing 747

1970 Ottawa stops foreign takeover of Denison Mines, Canada's largest uranium mining company, by US interests

1970 Rhodesia declares an independent republic Britian replys with an economic blockade

1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years

1972 Jean-Bédel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Central African Republic

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