1956 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy

1956 Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam

1960 Eileen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turns (for > 30 years)

1963 "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1

1964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on the BBC

1964 Forty 40 hidden microphones are discovered in the U S embassy in Moscow

1964 Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years

1965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for the Star Trek Captain

1967 Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London

1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law", upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial

1969 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 performances

1969 Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit

1971 Bulgarian constitution goes into effect

1971 President Nixon rejects the 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus

1971 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3

1971 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found

1972 "Me & The Chimp" last airs on CBS-TV

1972 John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded

1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany

1974 "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1

1974 India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb

1977 A nightclub fire in Cincinnati killed 164

1977 Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister

1978 Italy legalizes abortion

1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work

1980 Belgium 3rd Government of Martens forms

1980 China People's Republic launch first intercontinental rocket

1980 Fernando Belaunde Terry elected President of Peru

1980 In Washington State, a 5.2 quake was felt (V) at Yakima and (IV) in many parts of Washington and Oregon. This earthquake occurred only seconds before the explosion which began the eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano.

1980 Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die

1982 Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion

1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program

1985 "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3

1985 The first remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)

1986 Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups

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