1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

1966 In Northeastern China a 6.75-7.0 earthquake occurred second one in a month the last was March 07.

1967 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title in first Madison Square Garden fight

1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia

1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone

1968 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France

1971 Ottawa starts $2 million program to hire 276 Francophone graduates for public service jobs; jobs where French is 'la Langue du travail'

1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)

1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP

1975 Canadian classical guitarist Liona Boyd makes her New York debut at the Carnegie Recital Hall

1975 Ranjit & Damayanthie married in St Anne's Church Wattala , Sri Lanka

1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens

1977 Dutch Den Uyl government falls

1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India

1978 France performs nuclear test

1978 Three prisoners emerge from St. Jerome prison with their six hostages after a two-week standoff, ending Canada's longest hostage-taking

1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt

1981 Postal rates up gain to 18¢ from 15¢

1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6

1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched

1982 Iran offensive against Iraq

1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president

1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game

1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA

1986 Heart's "These Dreams", single goes #1

1986 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1 9.30)

1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes first skater to land a quadruple jump

1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1986 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR)

1987 American singer Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," arrived in Japan at the start of his world tour.

1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill

1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate

1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill

1990 The Major League umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games

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