1963 Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1969 The children's TV show Sesame Street debuts on PBS.
1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1971 US table tennis team arrived in China
1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling freighter with a crew of 29, disappears without a trace on Lake Superior during a storm.
1975 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1979 CP Rail no. 54 suffers a hot axle box and derails 24 cars containing dangerous commodities, in Mississaugua, Ont. Almost a quarter of a million people were evacuated for periods of up to five days.
1980 Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays the $12.55 fare
1982 Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party died
1982 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet first sect, dies of a heart attack at 75
1982 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75.
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens to visitors in Wahsington, D.C.
1984 Sudie Bond actress, dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1985 Pelle Lindbergh Philadelphia Flyer's goalie, dies in drunk driving accident
1986 River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill
1988 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
1989 Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador
