1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen

1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie", premieres in New York NY

1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa

1946 Belgian government of Acker, forms

1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe

1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province

1951 US tanks exceed 38º of latitude in Korea

1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare established

1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld Secretary-General

1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, established

1954 USSR offers to join NATO

1955 Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan

1955 Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut West Indies vs Australia, Kingston

1955 US Assay Office in Seattle WA closes

1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division

1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges US and Britain to do same

1959 The Dalai Lama, fleeing the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet, crosses the border into India, where he is granted political asylum

1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man", premieres in New York NY

1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes first premier of Ethiopia

1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years

1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military

1965 US ordered the first combat troops to Vietnam

1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY

1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1966 USSR launches Luna 10, first lunar orbiter

1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar

1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection to the presidency

1969 George Harrison and Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs

1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion

1971 William L Calley Jr sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre

1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down

1973 Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision

1976 New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator

1978 Biochemist Charles Best dies at age 79; co-discoverer of insulin, used to treat diabetes.

1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite

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