1946 The Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun opens

1948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece

1948 Chaim Weizmann elected first President of Israel

1948 Egyptians enter the Gaza

1948 Israel issues its first postage stamps

1955 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in 9 (San Fransisco) for heavyweight boxing title

1955 King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo

1955 Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown

1956 Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China

1956 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia

1957 Major Irwin, USAF flies a Lockheed Starfighter to a record 1,404.18 MPH

1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton CT

1958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico

1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter

1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US

1961 13th Emmy Awards Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck

1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury

1964 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champion

1965 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam

1965 Spaghetti-O's first sold

1966 Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" is released

1966 National Welfare Rights Organization begins

1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

1967 Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium

1968 Battle for Fire Support Base CORAL in Vietnam

1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan

1968 Honshu, Japan a7.0 quake killed 47 people, 281 injured, and $131 million property damage was sustained.

1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute

1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam

1969 The Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault

1969 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere

1970 "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten" by Bill Cosby hits #70

1971 Bulgaria adopts it's constitution

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