1960 Elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army.

1960 World Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 A private plane crashes near Camden, TN, claiming the life of country music singer Patsy Cline and two other performers.

1963 Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl"

1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest

1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1966 75 MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die

1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun

1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris France

1969 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany

1969 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw", premieres in London

1969 The premiere issue of the rock magazine, Creem, is published.

1970 3 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in New York NY

1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect

1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party

1976 British £ falls below $2 for first time

1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances

1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California

1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)

1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49

1981 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer

1981 World Ice Dance Championship in Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)

1982 Comedian/actor John Belushi is found dead at age 33 of a drug overdose in Hollywood.

1982 Parliament passes Canada Oil and Gas Act; Petro Canada (the peoples oil and gas company) gets automatic 25% of all new offshore finds; to speed offshore oil and gas development

1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data

1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Conservative)

1984 Supreme Court (5-4); city may use public money for Nativity scene

1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas

1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's first national color newspaper)

1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000

1990 The Crown charges 8 Canadian flour mills with rigging prices for food aid; $500 million over 12 years, so much for corporate ethics

1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait

1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks

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