1964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli

1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem

1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit

1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400

1966 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34

1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 Award of United States Presidential Unit Citation to D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, for the Battle of Long Tan

1968 Second assault on Fire Support Base Balmoral, Vietnam

1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon

1969 AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid

1970 Australian Army Training Team Vietnam awarded US unit Meritorious Citation

1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"

1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, first spacecraft to soft land on Mars

1972 Edward VIII, former King of the United Kingdon, dies

1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate

1974 26th Emmy Awards MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win

1974 Emmy first Daytime Award presentation

1974 Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed

1974 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances

1975 Bayern München wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris France

1975 Soyuz 18 launches

1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky

1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500 (average speed of 161.363 mph), 3 times

1979 European Market accepts Greece as member

1980 Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid

1982 Leonard Maltin's first appearance on Entertainment Tonight

1982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Great Britain

1983 "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63

1983 Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens

1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon

1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating of STS 51-G

1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados

1987 60th National Spelling Bee Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci

1987 Mathias Rust, 19, West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR

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