1962 Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos

1962 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)

1966 Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin

1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College

1967 Zakir Hussain elected first Moslem President of India

1968 Battle between students & troops in Paris France, 1000 injured

1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards

1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skis down Mount Everest

1972 In the second most active dog-fight day of the war, Navy flyers shot down two iG-17s and two MiG-21s.

1974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis OR

1974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London

1974 West German chancellor W Brandt resigns

1975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello ID

1975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha NE

1977 "Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl" released in UK

1978 South Africa military goes into Angola

1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 81.8 kph over 200 meters

1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1981 US expels Libyan diplomats

1984 José Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election

1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards Air Force Base

1986 Berlin Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup

1986 Donald E Pelotte becomes first native American bishop

1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1987 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice

1987 Mario Andretti sets the one-lap speed record at Indianapolis 500 at 218.204 MPH

1987 PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God

1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1990 Former President PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party

1990 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in South Carolina

1991 Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees

1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands

1992 Werder Bremen wins 32nd Europe Cup II

1993 STS-55 (Columbia) lands

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