1970 Four students are killed at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest They are immortalized in the song "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio

1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt

1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)

1971 Mud slide buries part of St-Jean Vianney Quebec, killing 31 people; $1 million damage.

1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam

1973 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope

1973 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK

1975 Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane" premieres in NYC

1975 Gama Hernandez is born in Los Angeles California

1976 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says that Waltzing Matilda will be his country's national anthem at the upcoming Montreal Summer Olympic Games.

1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany

1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2

1979 The first woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) is elected

1980 Marshal Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia, dies

1982 British Destroyer HMS Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket catches fire and later flounders, many sailors die

1983 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China

1984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)

1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghánistán

1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1989 US launches Magellan to Venus

1989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched

1989 White house aide Oliver North is convicted of charges from the Iran-Contra affair The three convictions are later overturned on appeal

1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger

1990 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence

1990 Pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah

1991 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent

1991 Actress Sharon Gless &producer Barney Rosenzeig wed

1991 Morris K Udall (Representative-D-AZ), resigns due to Parkinson disease

1991 President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat

1994 Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II

1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges

1904 Work begins on the Panama Canal, Central America

1990 Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union

1936 The birth of Audrey Hepburn, Dutch born film actress

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