1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile

1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances

1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champion

1957 Britian becomes the 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb

1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled

1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 minutes 42.5 seconds

1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)

1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated

1961 South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth

1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter

1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is first to land a triple lutz ice skate jump

1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty

1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton more to come)

1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1965 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote

1966 8th Grammy Awards Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra and Streisand

1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles

1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum

1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil

1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns

1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri

1968 In Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation

1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"

1968 Uprising in South Yemen

1968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold

1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns

1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead)

1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan

1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"

1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet

1972 Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama

1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112

1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle

1973 Alberta Indians awarded $190,000 settlement in back payment of ammunition money promised to them under their 1877 treaty; sum of $2,000 should have been paid annually

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