1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral

1951 Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC

1954 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months

1955 A causeway is completed across the Strait of Canso between Cape Porcupine and Balache Point, Nova Scotia. This involved a 14 mile main line diversion for the rerouting of railway traffic linking directly Cape Breton Island with the mainland. Previous movements were by car ferry across the Strait of Canso.

1955 US performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean

1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania

1956 2 RAR attacks communist terrorists near Sungei Siput, Malaya

1960 USSR launch first (unmanned) space capsule

1961 Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama

1962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain

1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1963 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations

1964 Underground America Day is first observed

1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes

1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1968 Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp

1968 Czechoslovakian Government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek

1968 Red Army Faction -leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin

1969 Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada

1969 Last Chevrolet Corsair built

1970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State University, Mississippi)

1970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to the Supreme Court

1970 In the Eastern Caucasus two quakes measuring 5.5 and 6.5 occurred occurred a few miles west of Machackala, a city of about 165,000 population and located on the Caspian Sea

1970 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing

1970 Red Aarmy Faction -leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

1972 24th Emmy Awards All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton

1973 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London

1973 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV

1973 Skylab launched, the first Space Station

1973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

1974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed

1975 Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II

1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia

1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship

1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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