1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane

1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin

1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens

1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing

1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens

1952 European Defense Community forms

1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections

1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV

1956 French raid in Algiers

1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS

1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey

1961 Fiorentina wins first Europe Cup II in Florence

1961 President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon

1961 The first "black light" is sold can disco be far ahead?

1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected first prime minister of Kenya

1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US

1964 Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna

1965 HMAS Sydney departs on first voyage to Vietnam with 1 RAR

1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan

1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes

1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain

1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV

1969 Walt Disney World construction begins

1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I

1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1971 23rd Walker Cup Great Britain/Ireland 13-United States 11

1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship

1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"

1975 Stanley Cup Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2

1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38

1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582

1977 NYC fines George Willig 1¢ for each of 110 stories of the World Trade Center he climbed

1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop

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