1953 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins

1955 Country singer Reba McEntire born this day.

1955 New Zealand cricket all out for 26 vs England at Eden Park

1959 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama

1960 Pope John raises the first Japanese, first African & first Filipino cardinal

1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)

1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives West Indies cricket victory over India

1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees

1964 In the Prince William Sound, Alaska a quake measuring 9.2 occurs one of the 10 Largest Earthquakes in the World,

1964 Near Merriman, Nebraska a 5.1 quake is one of the largest historical earthquakes in Nebraska .

1965 Near the West Coast of Central Chile a 7.3 quake occurs about 400 persons were killed or missing, 350 were injured, and extensive property damage was reported

1967 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1968 Actress Lucy Lawless was born this day.

1969 In Turkey a 6.4 earthquake occurred in the Alasehir region of western Turkey.

1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)

1970 In Gediz, Turkey a 7.3 earthquake resulted in over 1,000 killed, over 1,000 injured, more than 8,000 buildings destroyed and over 5,500 buildings damaged

1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1972 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game

1977 49th Academy Awards "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win

1977 Morarji Desai forms government in India

1979 British government of Callaghan falls

1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown PA (no deaths but lots of stress)

1981 France performs nuclear test

1981 Viv Richards scores century in the first Test at his home Antigua

1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador

1982 Near Coast of Peru a 6.1 earthquake killed 3 people and extensive damage (VI) at Lunahuana.

1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet

1985 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues", premieres in New York NY

1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad

1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India

1986 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway

1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a New York court

1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal

1990 Three arrested in London in plot to smuggle US-made nuclear triggering devices to Iraq.

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