1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours

1962 The Beatles performed for the first time on the BBC

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day Military coup in Syria

1965 US combat forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines)

1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin

1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame

1968 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD)

1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw

1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo Italy

1971 ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier, of Philadelphia, won a decision over Muhammad Ali, who had been previously undefeated.

1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"

1972 The first airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)

1972 The first flight of the Goodyear blimp

1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens

1973 Paul &Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis

1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris France

1975 Olivia Newton-John reached the top spot on the pop charts with"Have You Never Been Mellow".

1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba

1976 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China

1977 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond

1977 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her first child (Peter)

1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam

1979 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale

1979 The first extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)

1980 Greg Chappell 235 &Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad

1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic

1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR

1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0

1983 President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"

1984 First US cruise missile tested over western Canada; unarmed missile stays attached to B-52 bomber.

1985 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxed themselves to discover that 407,700 Americans were millionaires -- more than double the total of just five years before.

1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon

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