1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal

1953 French Government of Mayer resigns

1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated

1956 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms

1956 US explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

1957 French Government of Mollet resigns

1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island

1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)

1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens

1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery

1964 Fire in Wégimond Belgium resort, kills 19

1964 The first nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)

1964 The initiation of the standing carrier presence at Yankee Station in the South China Sea.

1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos

1966 "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97

1966 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in London

1968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert

1968 The nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion, with a crew of 99, is reported missing It is later found on the ocean floor off the coast of Azores

1968 US nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores

1968 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)

1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death

1969 Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel

1970 National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University

1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens

1971 National Guard mobilized to quell riot in Chattanooga TN

1975 Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede

1975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission

1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart

1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances

1977 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC

1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19

1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England

1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect

1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Fransisco mayor Moscone

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