1968 AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam

1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London

1968 South Island, New Zealand a 7.1 quake was the strongest in 8 years in the area, and resulted in three deaths, 14 injuries, and damage estimated at about $3 million.

1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus

1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes

1969 The Who release the rock opera "Tommy"

1970 Grateful Dead's first perfomance outside of the US (England)

1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)

1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale

1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands

1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed

1977 Benin adopts its constitution

1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11

1977 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell

1978 General strike in Peru

1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy

1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president

1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage

1981 NASA launches Intelsat V

1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina

1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles

1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghánistán Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air

1984 Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London

1986 US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa

1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990

1989 3rd American Comedy Award Paula Poundstone

1989 An estimated one million people in Beijing (and tens of thousands in other Chinee cities) march to demand the resignation of Premier Li Peng

1989 Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe

1990 A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna

1990 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion

1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,856.26

1991 Last Cubans troops leave Angola

1991 US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion

1992 President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees

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