1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House

1951 Award of Republic of South Korea Presidential Citation to 77 Squadron, RAAF

1951 The first atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM

1952 The first hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific

1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule

1954 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements

1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado

1956 Delhi becomes a territory of the Indian union

1956 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed

1956 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact

1959 Goalie Jacques Plant wears a hockey mask fo rthe first time in a game

1960 Benelux treaty goes into effect

1962 Greece enters the European Common Market

1962 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars

1963 Revolt against the Diem regime in South Vietnam

1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km

1969 Beatles'""Abbey Road," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks

1970 Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked and 142 die

1971 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation

1979 Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler

1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster

1981 Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1989 Dedication of the National Army Memorial in Anzac Parade, Canberra, by the Governor-General, the Hon Bill Hayden

1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights

1990 Last of Margaret Thatcher's original cabinet resigns, Deputy PM Sir Geoffrey Howe

1990 Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler

1990 Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts

1993 Australia grants permanent extension on visas given to Chinese present in the country at the time of the Tienanmen Square massacre in Beijing in June 1989

1993 Maastricht Treaty takes effect

1995 Commuter service commences over CP Rail between Vancouver and Mission, BC.

1940 Prehistoric cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France

1962 First ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched

1757 The birth of Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor

1871 The birth of Stephen Crane, American novelist

1887 The birth of L.S Lowry, English artist; famous for his matchstick figures

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