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1963 Clifford Odets, US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57. 
1965 Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show.
1965 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/writer (Walk at Dawn), dies.
1966 inaugural US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon.
1966 S J "Tip" Snooke, S Afr cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies.
1968 In the Northern Celebesa a 7.4 earthquake caused tsunami waves, reaching up to 300 meters inland,took some 200 lives and destroyed 700 houses. Wave heights were estimated at 8 to 10 meters.
1969 British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland.
1969 Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88
1970 Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer, dies at 62
1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule.
1971 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
1971 Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer, dies at 59
1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156.
1972 Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86
1973 US bombs Cambodia.
1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1974 Peace talks in Cyprus break down, and fresh fighting breaks out.
1975 Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids), dies at 87.
1980 Dorothy Stratten, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider.
1981 Dudley Nourse, cricketer (34 Tests for South Africa, 2960 runs), dies
1982 Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies at 58
1983 French troops deployed in Chad.
1984 In this year, IBM releases MS-DOS version 3.0.
1984 John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89.
1985 Gale Sondergaard, actress (Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86.
1988 Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90
1991 Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61
1992 Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter, dies at 104.
1994 Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
1995 Joseph Fattorini, businessman, dies at 82
1996 Ian Macfarlane is appointed new head of Australia's Reserve Bank
2005 Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes into a mountain in Greece, killing 121.
2006 A UN cease fire takes effect in the 2006 Lebanon War.
2007 At least 22 people are killed, and at least 39 missing, as a bridge collapses in the southeastern province of Hunan, China.
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