1962 The first appearance of a Gabor sister on the Merv Griffin Show
1963 Navy medical team from Norfolk, VA begins massive inoculation program to safeguard against outbreak of typhoid in the wake of Hurricane Flora.
1967 Operation Coronado VI began in Rung Sat Zone
1967 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1968 Launch of Apollo 7, the first U.S. 3-man space mission, commanded by CDR Walter Schirra, JR. USN. MAJ Ronnie Cunningham, USMCR served as Lunar Module pilot. The mission lasted 10 days and 20 hours. Recovery was by HS-5 helicopters from USS Essex (CVS-9).
1968 Panama revolts
1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
1971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1972 Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
1975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1984 Kathryn D. Sullivan of the US is the first female astronaut to walk in spaceoct12
1984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George Bush (R)
1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1986 Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
