1953 First live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)

1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize

1955 Alabama woman bruised by a meteor

1955 Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands

1956 "Wizard of Oz" first televised (CBS-TV)

1957 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with a dog name Laika

1960 Willard Libby is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing carbon-14 dating

1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President

1970 Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile

1973 Good Morning America premiers on ABC (David Hartman &Nancy Dussault)

1973 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, first mission to Mercury

1978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)

1979 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)

1979 The Greensboro Massacre - Klu Klux Clan shoot 5 members of the communist workers party IN Greensboro, North Carolina,

1983 Jesse Jackson launches his first campaign for Presidency (D)

1984 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India

1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated

1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran

1986 President Machel killed in air crash in Mozambique

1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56

1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane

1988 Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill

1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew

1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping

1992 Bill Clinton elected US President

1995 The new Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA each play thier first season opening game(both win)

1957 Russians launch a dog named Laika into space, the first living creature to leave the earth

1985 Two French agents found guilty of sinking the Greenpeace ship 'Rainbow Warrior'

1992 Bill Clinton wins the US Presidential elections with a 'landslide' victory over George Bush

1917 The birth of Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish writer

1921 The birth of Charles Bronson, American actor

1954 The birth of Adam Ant, British Singer/songwriter

2005 Another severe aftershock measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hits affected areas of Northern Pakistan.

2006 Iran successfully test-fires 3 new models of sea missiles in a show of force to assert its military capacities in the Gulf.

2006 Science predicts 90% of maritime life forms will be extinct by 2048.

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