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1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft Worth. 
1959 Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60
1960 Helicopters of HS-3 and HU-2 from Valley Forge rescued 27 men from the oiler SS Pine Ridge as she was breaking up in heavy seas 100 miles off Cape Hatteras.
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named.
1962 1000000th NBA point scored.
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F Kennedy ends.
1963 Reginald Binette results in the deaths of four parishioners of Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Ottawa in robbery attempt
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3530 kph (record for a jet).
1964 Quebec- Opening of the Eastern Townships Autoroute.
1964 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66.
1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1965 Belgian govt shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62.
1967 Then Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau tells the Commons that "There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."
1967 Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48.
1968 Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73.
1969 Anglican Church of Canada ordains inaugural woman deacon
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend an hour with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and meet the Minister of Health, John Munro to discuss drug abuse
1969 Montreal Quebec FLQ terrorists explode bomb in a post office truck
1969 Supreme Court rules 1968 Montreal lottery illegal; Quebec sets up provincial lottery corporation; inaugural draw to take place March 14, 1970.
1969 Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80.
1970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life in prison.
1971 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-general.
1971 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58
1972 Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell receives a gold record for her album, For the Roses; includes the single, You Turn Me on, I'm a Radio.
1973 Pierre Berton quoted in Canadian Magazine as saying, "A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe."
1973 Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French.
1974 Sault Ste Marie's Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins is recorded as becoming the 6th NHLer to score 500 goals, in a 5-4 win over the Detroit Red Wings.
1974 Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC.
1976 Olive Diefenbaker dies; wife of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
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