1966 Peru &Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die

1967 Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon

1967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce

1968 "Unicorn" by The Irish Rovers hits #7

1968 Fire Support Base Balmoral in Vietnam reinforced with Centurion tanks

1968 Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated

1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"

1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating

1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup

1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander

1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1973 Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora installed as president

1973 Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 2nd UEFA Cup at Mönchengladbach

1973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK

1973 Launch of Skylab 2 mission, which was first U.S. manned orbiting space station. It had an all Navy crew of CAPT Charles Conrad, Jr., USN. (commanding), CDR Joseph P. Kerwin, USN and CDR Paul J. Weitz, USN. During the 28 day mission of 404 orbits, the craft rendezvoused with Skylab to make repairs and conduct science experiments. Recovery by USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14)

1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich

1977 "Beatles Live! At the Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released

1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election

1977 Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome

1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1978 "Star Wars" released

1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275

1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt

1980 "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances

1981 Al Unser becomes first Indianapolis 500 winner to be disqualified

1981 Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours

1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes the 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters

1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar

1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad

1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released

1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357

1983 First National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed

1983 France performs nuclear test

1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed

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