1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima

1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto

1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms

1945 Venray soccer team forms

1951 USAF flag approved

1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to prevent polio [myelitis]

1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett", becomes the #1 record in US

1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms

1956 Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One

1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness &Joanne Woodward win

1958 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"

1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs West Indies age 15 years 124 days

1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem

1960 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami

1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature

1964 "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances

1966 Operation Jackstay in Navy's first amphibious assault in Vietnam's inland waters

1967 21st Tony Awards Homecoming &Cabaret win

1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open

1968 Operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta

1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV

1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use

1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched

1970 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances

1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945

1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark

1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul &Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl

1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings

1971 "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV

1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence

1973 Soap opera "The Young and the Restless" premieres

1973 Susan Shaw, is first woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange

1974 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President

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