1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA

1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France

1964 Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is sentenced to die in the electric chair for his "murder with malice" of Oswald

1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial

1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA

1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV

1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos

1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes

1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland

1974 Quebec to make French the official language of the province

1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)

1978 Statistics Canada reports unemployment passed the 1,000,000 mark in February for the first time not bad for a population of what 20 million

1979 Near Coast of Guerrero, Mexico a 7.6 earthquake was centered about 250 km south of Mexico City. At least five people were reported killed

1979 Peter Lougheed 1928- wins third term in provincial election and so continues the Tory Blue Rule

1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)

1980 World Ice Dance Championship in Dortmund West Germany won by Krisztina Regoczy and Andras Sallay (Hungary)

1983 OPEC cut oil prices for first time in 23 years

1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission

1985 11th People's Choice Awards Bill Cosby wins 4 awards

1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)

1988 Iran and Iraq unleash missiles on each other's capitals as so-called "war of the cities" erupts.

1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson

1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress

1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment

1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave

1991 World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (France)

1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication

1994 Flaming oil burns in the Bosporus Strait that divides Istanbul after a tanker and freighter collide, killing 15 crew members.

1994 Former West Australian premier Carmen Lawrence enters federal parliament through Fremantle by-election and records a 1.43 per cent swing to Labor

1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped

1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard

1995 First time 13 people in space

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