1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1966 James Goldman's "Lion in Winter", premieres in New York NY

1966 Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinée

1966 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)

1966 Twister hits Jackson MS; 3 minutes after first sighting, 57 die

1967 Eric Burdon and the Animals refuse to do a show in Ottawa unless they are paid in advance; audience of 3,000 go on a rampage, doing $5,000 in damages.

1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain, later the U.S. will come calling

1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1968 Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague

1968 Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points

1969 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days)

1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles

1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa

1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain GA

1974 George Foreman KOs Ken Norton

1974 World's worst air disaster to date, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris France (346 die)

1975 Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana

1975 Thomas Berger 1933- starts public hearings into social and environmental costs of planned 4,184 km Mackenzie Valley pipeline

1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia

1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms

1977 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov (USSR)

1978 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland

1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ)

1982 Statistics Canada confirms that Canada entered a recession in 1982. Gee all they had to do was ask me I could have told them

1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres

1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike

1985 Near Coast of Central Chile a 7.8earthquate killed at least 177 people killed, 2,575 injured and extensive damage in central Chile, including the cities of San Antonio, Valparaiso, Vina del Mar, Santiago and Rancagua

1986 Dedication of the National Naval Memorial in Anzac Parade, Canberra, by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Australian Navy

1987 Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74.

1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines

1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra

1990 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan), first black crowned 39th Miss USA

1991 Iraqi generals & General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire

1991 Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR

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