1952 US Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan

1954 "King &I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances

1954 Newspaper vending machine first used (Columbia Pennsylvania)

1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes

1956 Tunisia gains independence from France

1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp

1956 USSR performs nuclear test

1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it

1958 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line

1958 Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist), Voice of Truth first transmission

1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater

1963 Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke

1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization

1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi

1966 In Uganda a 6.75 earthquake was the most destructive earthquake in recent African history, about 140 fatalities and hundreds of injuries were reported

1967 Supremes release "The Happening"

1968 Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)

1968 President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money

1969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar

1969 US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970

1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche

1972 Sicco L. Mansholt succeeds Franco M. Malfatti as chairman of European Committee

1973 On the Kerguelen-Gausberg Rise a 5.4 earthquake, the first instrumental epicenter associated with this structure and is located in the Antarctic plate 1,800 kilometers from the nearest seismic belt

1974 Hydro Quebec workers on James Bay project riot; destroy millions of dollars of equipment; project closes down

1976 In California, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is convicted of taking part in a 1974 armed robbery of a San Francisco bank

1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery

1977 Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as first mayor in a century

1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India

1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center

1979 The last variant of the P-2 Neptune rolled off the production line at ceremonies in Japan. This was the longest production run of any aircraft type in history, 34 years from the first model which was built in 1945

1980 The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks

1980 The Quebec National Assembly approves wording of referendum question on Sovereignty Association, and so it begins

1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran

1981 Argentine ex-President Isabel Perón sentenced to 8 years

1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor

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