1955 7th Emmy Awards Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas &Loretta Young

1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised

1958 Commissioning of USS Grayback, first submarine built from keel up with guided missile capability, to fire Regulus II missile.

1959 Melvin C. Garlow became the first pilot to fly over a million miles in jet airplanes.

1959 The first aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 Mkm) in a jet (MC Garlow)

1959 West Indies all out 76 vs Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34

1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA

1960 USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) rescues 4 Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1,000 miles from Midway Island, which was drifting several weeks after their engine failed off Kamchatka Peninsula.

1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio

1962 Launch of OSO 1, first astronomy satellite (solar flare data)

1963 In Quebec FLQ starts campaign of violence by hurling Molotov cocktails at three Canadian Army armories.

1965 Alabama state troopers &600 black protestors clash in Selma

1965 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for New Zealand after ton

1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile

1966 Department of Navy reorganized into present structure under CNO

1966 In Northeastern China a 6..75 earthquake damaged thirty communes by the first shock indicating that about 300,000 Chinese were affected in the densely populated city of Singtai

1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1967 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", premieres in New York NY

1967 PBRs assists Operation Overload II in Rung Sat Zone, Vietnam

1967 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union &jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)

1968 Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam

1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1970 World Ice Dance Championship in Ljubljana won by Liudmila Pakhomova &Alexandr Gorshkov (USSR)

1970 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Irina Rodnina &Alexei Ulanov (USSR)

1970 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (German Democratic Republic)

1970 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)

1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire

1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory

1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh

1974 "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC

1974 First general striking in Ethiopia

1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate

1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1976 Morocco &Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria

1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections

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