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1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41600 m. 
1962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1962 Tim D.was born this day in Calgary.
1964 Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
1964 Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), dies at 56.
1965 Race riot in West Side of Chicago
1968 Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81
1969 A three day street battle started in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
1969 Echo, the worlds inaugural communications satellite, launched by the US
1969 Dick Ryan, actor (For Heaven's Sake), dies after long illness at 72
1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1973 John Clay, cricketer (Glamorgan offie in only Test 1935), dies.
1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become inaugural teammates elected to hall of fame on the same day.
1976 inaugural approach and landing test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise.
1976 Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies.
1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes inaugural atmospheric flight
1978 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
1981 IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0.
1982 Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80
1983 Henry Gifford Vivian, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ, 17 wkts), dies.
1985 Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
1985 Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86.
1988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released.
1988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital
1988 Richard Thornburgh is recorded as becoming US Attorney General.
1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, US musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), dies.
1990 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania.
1990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories.
1990 Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87
1991 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan.
1991 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies.
1992 Beverley Brooks, dies of a stroke at 63
1993 Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69.
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