1949 East Germans constitution approved

1949 NPS/VHP win first general election in Suriname

1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs

1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government

1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing

1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL

1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1957 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid

1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington

1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1959 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality

1959 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua

1959 World's first hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England

1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die

1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)

1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres

1964 Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1

1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)

1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins

1965 Vivian Malone, is first black to graduate from University of Alabama

1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam

1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon

1967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria

1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo

1967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles

1967 Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball

1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "The Beatles"

1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament

1968 University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown up

1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law

1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution

1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curaçao

1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; after drinking LSD apple juice

1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die

1971 US Mariner 9 first satellite to orbit Mars launched

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