1943 The first president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)

1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo

1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia

1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb

1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers

1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy

1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die

1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election

1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade

1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off Rhode Island, killing 103

1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed

1958 The HSS-1N helicopter, capable of day and night antisubmarine warfare under instrument flight conditions, was publicly flown at NAS Corpus Christi

1958 Union Square, San Fransisco becomes state historical landmark

1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1960 The Soviets are accused by UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge of concealing a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that was presented to the U S embassy in Moscow

1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta

1961 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours

1963 15th Emmy Awards Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth

1963 Organization of African Unity forms

1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes

1965 Revised international Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect

1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam

1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK

1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth

1969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal)

1969 The Apollo 10 astronauts return to earth after their successful 8-day rehearsal for the first manned moon landing

1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its first appearance

1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord

1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1973 "Funky Worm" by Ohio Players hits #15

1973 "Super Fly Meets Shaft" by John & Ernest hits #31

1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution

1973 Beatles' "The Beatles 1967-1970" album goes #1

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