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Monday, 30 March 2026
1959 Una O'Connor, actress (Banjo, Invisible Man), dies at 78 
1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member.
1961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure.
1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1962 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
1962 US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt.
1962 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances.
1964 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City OK
1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Okla City.
1964 Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71.
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); results in the deaths of 133
1966 Gilbert H Grosvenor, president Natl Geographic Society, dies at 90
1967 "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
1967 US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
1968 Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70
1969 Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general counsel to Apple
1969 Yassar Arafat takes over as chairman of PLO
1969 Thelma Ritter, actress (All About Eve, Pillow Talk), dies at 63.
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard and Mitchell).
1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt.
1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, results in the deaths of 65 in Brazil.
1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
1971 Rolls Royce goes bankrupt after a disastrous contract to supply aero engines to Lockheed Aircraft
1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria.
1972 In Central Italy a 4.8 earthquate and a series of hundreds of relatively minor shocks near the Italian town of Ancona on the Adriatic coast caused wide-spread panic, some damage, several injuries, and one death.
1972 Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported.
1973 "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances
1973 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
1974 Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands.
1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his inaugural word, at 2½ months
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