1966 John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

1966 North Sea Gas was first pumped ashore by BP

1966 Studebaker of Canada stops car production finally

1967 World Ice Dance Championship in Vienna won by Diane Towler & Bernard Ford (Great Britain)

1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1968 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign

1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched

1969 RCMP to replace remaining dog teams with snowmobiles, Sargent York and his faithful dog Yukon can now rest easy..

1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes

1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey

1971 Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church; first Prime Minister to marry while in office; couple divorce in 1984

1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK

1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty

1973 15th Grammy Awards The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America

1974 David Hares' "Knuckle", premieres in London

1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier

1977 A 7.2 earthquake occurred in Romania, it was centered about 170 kilometers northeast of Bucharest. It killed 1,500, injured about 10,500, and caused extensive damage in Bucharest and other parts of Romania

1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain

1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541

1977 The first big CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico

1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue

1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"

1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings

1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe

1982 NASA launches Intelsat V

1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA

1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline

1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike

1989 Time and Warner Communications announce a planned merger to form the world's largest media and entertainment company.

1990 A 6.1 earthquake occurred in Pakistan at least 11 people killed, about 40 injured and many homes and buildings damaged in the Kalat area. Also felt at Quetta and Mastung

1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space

1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce International divests itself of first American Bank

1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW

1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion

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