1963 JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATED

1967 BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles

1967 Boris Becker (tennis youngest Wimbledon Men's Champ. [17 years old])

1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York

1967 UN Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land

1968 Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in UK, their only double album

1972 Chuck Thacker, a computer scientist at Xerox PARC, started designing the Alto computer, designed to improve the quality of machine-human interactions

1972 The United States loses its first B-52 of the war. The eight-engine bomber was brought down by a North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile near Vinh on the day when B-52s flew their heaviest raids of the war over North Vietnam.

1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain

1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY and Europe begins

1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak

1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas

1985 Columbia moves to the Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C

1985 Lee Iacocca, the CEO of the Chrysler Corporation, presided over the largest swearing-in ceremony for new U.S. citizens in American history

1985 Microsoft signed an agreement with Apple, allowing Microsoft to copy visual characteristics of Apple's Macintosh in its Microsoft Windows software.

1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title

1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals

1988 In the presence of members of Congress and the media, the B-2 "stealth" bomber is shown publicly for the first time at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

1988 Stealth Bomber unveiled in public

1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and the Moon

1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired

1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit

1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving

1990 Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister in British history, resigns after eleven years in Britain's top office

1996 America Online agreed to provide a pop-up screen asking members to select a pricing plan.

1963 Lyndon B Johnson sworn in as the 35th President of America, hours after the assassination of President Kennedy

1975 King Juan Carlos II sworn in as head of state, two days after the death of Spanish dictator General Franco

1808 The birth of Thomas Cook, Founder of the Thomas Cook travel agents

1941 The birth of Tom Conti, American actor

2005 Microsoft releases the Xbox 360 gaming console in North America.

2005 Ted Koppel steps down as host of Nightline after 25 years with the program.

2006 Dutch general election, 2006: The Christian Democratic Appeal wins a plurality of seats in The Netherlands.

2006 A General Election is held for the House of Keys in the Isle of Man.

2006 Ten people are trapped and killed in the Kolkata leather factory fire in India.

2007 Vladimer Gurgenidze becomes the 17th Prime Minister of Georgia.

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