1962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope

1963 Nigeria becomes a republic within the Commonwealth

1964 Free Speech Movement launched at U of California, Berkley

1964 SF cable cars declared a national landmark

1968 "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh

1969 Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps

1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens

1972 Louis Leakey famed anthropologist, dies at 68

1972 The first games of the World Hockey Association

1973 Joe Devlin actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74

1975 Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles

1975 Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"

1975 Reunion Island stops prints stamps, France takes over production

1977 Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games

1978 Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain

1979 President Jimmy Carter awards the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to former naval aviators Neil Armstrong, CAPT Charles Conrad, Jr., USN (Ret.), COL John Glenn, USMC (Ret.), and RADM Alan Shepard, Jr., USN (Ret.)

1979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)

1980 Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days

1980 USS Cochrane (DDG-21) rescues 104 Vietnamese refugees 620 miles east of Saigon

1982 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida

1982 West Germany's Parliament ousts chancellor Helmut Schmidt

1984 Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus

1986 President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta

1987 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA

1988 Robert Englund the actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth

1989 Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle

1989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany

1989 US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus

1990 Curtis E LeMay USAF General, WWII dies at 83

1990 Pres Bush at the UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait

1990 USS Independence (CV-62) enters Persian Gulf (first carrier in Persian Gulf since 1974)

1993 The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway commences operation over the former CN line between Sydney and Truro, Nova Scotia.

1996 The St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway is formed by merging the CP Rail routes in southern Ontario and Quebec with its Delaware and Hudson subsidiary in northern USA. The STLH name was first used about June 1 although the legal entity was not established until October 1.

1998 Southern Rails Cooperative takes over operation of CN Avonlea subdivision from Avonlea to Moose Jaw, SK.

1908 First Model T Ford produced in Detroit

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