1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten

1947 The first permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (The New Jersey)

1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps

1950 In the Korean war advancing allied troops reach the Manchurian Chinese border

1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, first to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH)

1957 Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy, while testifing before Congress said that he would set up an agency to manage all defense research. Despite objections by some of the military, the research agency, known as ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) was created in early 1958. ARPA developed ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, in 1969.

1959 The all-new 105E Anglia was introduced in the United States--the first British Ford to be marketed to Americans on a large scale

1959 UN adopts the declaration of children's rights

1962 President John F. Kennedy lifts the Blockade of Cuba.

1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live

1977 Egyptian President Sadat became first Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset

1978 A satellite system for transmitting newspaper content was dedicated on this day in 1978. The system transmitted The Wall Street Journal from where it was typeset in Massachusetts to Orlando, Florida, at a rate of 3.5 minutes per page.

1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes first solar-powered flight

1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting

1981 Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship

1981 Ringo releases "Stop and Smell the Roses" album

1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war

1986 UN's WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS

1990 Chief Justice Bertha Wilson (Supreme Court of Cda.) announces her retirement after 9 years

1990 Layne Halls of Silver Creek, New York, died at the age of 105, according to his death certificate. Halls had the distinction of being the oldest licensed driver in the United States at the time

1990 Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership

1998 Okanagan Valley Railway commences operation over the former CP line between Sicamous and Kelowna, BC (including running rights over the CN between Vernon and Kelowna). The formal handing over ceremony took place on January 15, 1999.

2000 A 17 year old student is stabbed and dies at a Calgary High School

1945 The Nuremburg war crimes tribunal begins hearings with 24 Nazi leaders, including Hess and Goering, on trial

1908 The birth of Alistair Cooke, British broadcaster

1925 The birth of Robert Kennedy, American politician

1925 The birth of Maya Plisetskaya, Russian Ballerina

2005 The Washington Post rebukes journalist Bob Woodward over his conduct in the CIA leak probe.

2006 Iran and Syria recognize the government of Iraq, restore diplomatic relations, and call for a peace conference.

2006 Lee High School bus crash kills 4 students in Huntsville, Alabama.

2007 The UK's HM Revenue and Customs admits that it has misplaces two computer discs which contained the records of child benefit claimants data, including bank details and National Insurance numbers, in the United Kingdom, leaving up to 7.25 million households susceptible to identity theft.

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