1967 US Secretary of Defense McNamara becomes President of the World Bank

1968 John and Yoko release their first album "Two Virgins" in UK

1968 The Viet Cong High Command orders an all-out attempt to smash the Phoenix program. Hanoi Radio broadcasted a National Liberation Front directive calling for a new offensive to "utterly destroy" Allied forces

1969 Beatles' "Come Together," single goes #1

1971 First pro golf championship at Walt Disney World

1971 The U.S. 23rd Division (Americal) ceases combat operations and begins its withdrawal from South Vietnam.

1973 Chrysler Halts Production witht he economic downturn of the late 1970s struck again. This time, limping auto giant Chrysler Corp. announced plans to halt production at seven plants

1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii

1975 The Microsoft name appears in writing for the first time, in a letter between Bill Gates and Paul Allen about their new company

1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees

1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US andabout 20 other countries

1986 Actor Cary Grant died on this day at the age of 82. Grant, one of the most debonair of Hollywood’s leading men, left us with many great cinematic performances

1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost

1990 UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq

1994 Andrew Grove, CEO of Intel Corp., posted a message on an Internet chat group, apologizing for a bug in the recently-released Pentium chip. The problem, first

1996 The media reported that MTV Networks was demanding fees from online services that linked to their sites

1996 Volkswagen executive Jose Ignacio Lopez resigned on this day under charges of industrial espionage from General Motors, his former employer

2000 Thieves steal a helicopter from a building near Manning in Northern Alberta, pushing it outside and taking off

1864 1,200 American troops attack a camp of Cheyenne and Arapho indians who had surrended

1895 The birth of Busby Berkeley , American director and choreographer

1898 The birth of C.S Lewis, British writer

1932 The birth of Jacques Chirac, French president

2005 Leo O'Connor and David Keogh appear in court (see O'Connor - Keogh official secrets trial).

2007 The Armed Forces of the Philippines lays siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.

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