1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer

1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records

1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH

1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)

1956 French commandos land in Algeria

1956 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"

1957 29th Academy Awards "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner & Ingrid Bergman win

1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records

1958 Havana Hilton opens

1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & first Secretary of Communist Party

1961 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns

1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen

1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school

1964 Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history

1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars

1964 On the island of Cyprus the first Canadians troops start duties with UN peacekeeping force

1964 UN troops arrive on Cyprus

1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia

1966 Canada launches 158 kg. instrument package into upper atmosphere; to study aurora borealis; first all-Canadian space project, using Black Brant rocket.

1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco

1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia

1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars

1969 Ottawa to build new international airport at Mirabel, near St-Jerome, 42 km north of Montreal , a BIG waste of money it later closes

1970 Ringo releases his first solo album "Sentimental Journey"

1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus

1973 45th Academy Awards "Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians

1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession

1974 Ottawa and provinces agree that the price of domestic crude oil will rise from $4 to $6.50 a barrel those were the days!

1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens

1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747's crash, Tenerife

1978 Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances

1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars

1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900 meter down (23 die)

1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years

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