1962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"

1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden

1964 Eric Cooke, the "Moonstruck Murderer," is hanged in Perth for multiple killings.

1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety

1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"

1966 Operation Sea Dragon logistics interdiction began.

1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler

1968 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby

1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World

1971 The United Nations votes to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China.

1971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan

1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship

1974 Wings release "Junior's Farm"

1975 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing

1976 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight

1976 Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape

1978 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace

1980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks

1983 U.S. Marines and U.S. Army troops land on Grenada to evacuate U.S. citizens threatened by the island's unstable political situation.

1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)

1984 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premiers (Gotham Theater-NYC)

1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit

1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa

1986 Michael Sergio parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS

1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets

1990 Evander Hollyfield KOs James "Buster" Douglas for HW boxing title

1990 In the Hindu Kush Region a 6.0 earthquake killed 11 people and more then 250 injured and damage in the Chitral-Mardan-Malakand area, Pakistan. Felt throughout northern and central Pakistan.

1990 New Zealand's voters ousted the Labour Party of Mike Moore giving the National Party under James Bolger the biggest election victory in more than 50 years.

1990 NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)

1993 Jean Chretien succeeds Kim Campbell as Canada's prime minister.

1999 The dress that Marilyn Monroe wore to sing "Happy Birthday, Mr President" to President John F Kennedy is sold for $US1,267,500 -- a record for an item of clothing at auction.

2000 Stormy seas prevent divers from entering the nuclear submarine Kursk a day after naval officials reveal evidence that more than 23 seamen had survived the initial explosions that sank the vessel.

1415 Henry V's 'Longbowmen' defeat French Knights at the Battle of Agincourt

1854 The infamous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' takes place at Balaklava,during the Crimean War

1951 The Conservative Party, led by Winston Churchill, wins the General Election

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next Page »