1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine

1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River

1942 Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender (WWII)

1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US

1943 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender

1944 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brüx

1944 Krim purged of Nazi troops

1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat

1948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns

1949 The first foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)

1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade

1951 The first H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll

1956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves

1958 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40

1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

1959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)

1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special

1961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time

1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show

1963 Race riot in Birmingham AL

1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO

1965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations

1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

1968 "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington DC

1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed by the U S Senate as a Supreme Court justice

1970 Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)

1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall

1972 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

1973 "Dueling Tubas" by Martin Mull hits #92

1975 The Cambodian Navy seizes the American merchant ship Mayaguez in international waters

1976 Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1

1977 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation

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