1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives

1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine

1945 Carriers begin pre-assault strikes on Okinawa, kamikaze attacks follow

1945 Premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen

1949 The Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day.

1950 22nd Academy Awards "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win

1950 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government

1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established

1951 Wages in France increase 11%

1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)

1956 Sudan becomes independent

1957 US army sells last homing pigeons

1958 First launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA.

1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit

1962 French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.

1962 JFK visits San Francisco

1964 Two Marine helicopter crews of VMO-1 rescued 11 sick, injured and wounded members of a road engineering party that had survived attacks by hostile Indians in the dense jungle of the Amazon basin near Iquitos, Peru.

1965 LCDR John W. Young, USN, Pilot of Gemini 3 completed 3 orbits in 4 hours., 53 minutes at an altitude of 224 km. Recovery was by helicopters from USS Intrepid (CVS-11).

1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed

1966 First official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church

1969 Rally for Decency (Miami)

1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce

1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars

1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1973 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US

1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratify)

1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1979 In a ceremony at NAS Norfolk, Vice Admiral Forrest S. Petersen transferred ownership of the last Kawanishi H8K2 flying boat to the Japanese Museum of Maritime Science.

1980 France performs nuclear test

1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt

1981 Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions

1982 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees

1983 Barney B. Clark, survived for 112 days before his death, the Jarvick 7, an artificial heart made of polyurethane and aluminum

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