1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus

1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance

1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piët ends "Sjors &Sjimmie" strip

1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland

1973 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile

1974 Uganda crushes coup attempt against President Idi Amin following machine-gun and mortar battle with rebels.

1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title

1976 Argentine President Isabel Perón deposed by country's military

1976 British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery dies. He defeated the Germans at El Alamein

1977 Former Australian cabinet minister Don Chipp resigns from the Liberal Party; later he establishes the Australian Democrats

1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck"

1979 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center

1979 First appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes

1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"

1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks

1981 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC

1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings &46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy

1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba

1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia

1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics

1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)

1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah)

1986 58th Academy Awards "Out of Africa", William Hurt &Geraldine Page win

1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"

1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling

1986 US &Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra

1987 First Soul Train Music Awards Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win

1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria

1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires

1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", first time seen on TV since 1973

1989 The worst oil spill to ever occur in U.S. territory begins after the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska

1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka

1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards Ford Fairlane &Ghosts Can't Do It win

1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen

1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship

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