1968 President De Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse

1968 The Gateway Arch, located in St Louis, Missouri, is dedicated

1969 Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult

1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard

1972 Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona

1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1974 Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV

1975 Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain some F-16's

1975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4

1976 Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1976 The first commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC)

1977 USSR President Podgorny resigns

1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect

1979 Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar

1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1980 "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56

1980 Iran rejects a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages

1980 Stanley Cup New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 2

1981 Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indianapolis 500

1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain

1983 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria

1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students

1983 The Brooklyn Bridge, linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, opens to traffic

1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US

1985 Cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die

1986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy Mahl

1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes first British PM to visit Israel

1986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hours

1986 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1

1987 Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indianapolis 500

1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking 586 words per minute

1988 Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe

1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals

1989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres

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