1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition

1967 The first successful test flight of a Saturn V

1968 The fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe wins

1969 Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82

1971 1,000 convicts seize Attica, NY prison

1971 Detroit Red Wings hockey star Gordie Howe retires.

1971 Forty-three people are killed when prisoners seize control of New York's Attica prison.

1971 John Lennon &Yoko Ono appear on the Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)

1971 John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album

1975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing

1976 Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung dies in Beijing at age 82.

1979 At age 16, Tracy Austin becomes the youngest player ever to win the US Open women's tennis title.

1979 John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis, for the US Open Tennis title

1979 Sid Bernstein offers $« billion for a Beatle reunion

1979 Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque

1982 Columbia mated with SRBs &external tank in preparation for STS-5

1982 Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight

1982 Former movie star Princess Grace of Monaco dies from injuries suffered from an earlier car accident.

1983 Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas

1983 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (the Coco2)

1983 Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat the 100th ranked male tennis player

1984 John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl, for the US Open Tennis title

1986 NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying

1986 The first colorized classic movie (computerized color added to an originally black and white movie) appears on Ted Turner's WTBS "Superstation" in Atlanta, GA.

1987 Gary Hart admits to cheating on his wife on "Nightline"

1988 US swamps New Zealand at 27th America`s Cup NZ set to appeal

1989 Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratalova for the US Open championship

1990 Bush &Gorbachev meet in Helsinki &urge Iraq to leave Kuwait

1999 Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Jim Catfish" Hunter dies in Hertford, NC, at age 53.

1850 California becomes the 31st state of the United States

1892 Almalthea, a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter, discovered

1915 German Zepplins bomb London

1975 Czech tennis player Martina Navratilova defects to the West

1975 The United States launch the Viking 2 spacecraft to Mars

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