1968 Manchester United become the first English team to win European Championship soccer tournament beating Benfica of Portugal 4-1 at Wembley after an added 30 minutes 1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law

1968 UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia

1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes first crossing of Arctic Sea ice

1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)

1971 "Court Room" by Clarence Carter hits #61

1973 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records

1973 Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles

1974 Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster

1976 "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29

1977 Janet Guthrie becomes first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500

1977 NBC News & Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio

1977 Sue Press is first woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one

1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1978 A 1 oz letter costs 15-cents to mail today, as the US post office raises the old rate by two cents

1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's first black PM

1980 53rd National Spelling Bee Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate

1980 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League president

1980 J Turners "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC

1980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year

1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1982 "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses hits #62

1982 The first papal visit to Britain since 1531

1985 Heysel Stadium Disaster - 39 die and 500 injured in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer; English clubs banned from playing in European competition for five years

1985 Thirty-five spectators die when rioting erupts at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels

1986 59th National Spelling Bee Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia

1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor Vic Morrow

1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains

1988 Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season

1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan

1989 Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty

1990 An earthquake hits Peru, killing 56

1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president by the Russian parliament

1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,870.49

1990 Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record

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