1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes president of US Communist Party

1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title

1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress

1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145

1961 Major-General Allard the first Canadian to command a British army division

1961 Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender

1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)

1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty

1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska

1963 Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations

1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds

1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moïse Tsjombe to death

1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK

1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth

1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam

1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer

1970 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike

1973 Syria adopts constitution

1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France

1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's first win against Australia

1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test

1978 GO introduces its first bi-level coaches.

1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house

1978 The Canadian Radio & Television Commission rejects introduction of pay TV in Canada.. I guess we were not ready for it

1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created

1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement

1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1 13.60)

1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto

1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca

1982 World Ice Dance Championship in Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)

1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird

1984 Western Australia beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield

1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)

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