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1961  Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82.   

1962  Nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon   

1963  Beatles tape 10 tracks for their inaugural album, including "Please, Please Me"   

1963  CIA Domestic Operations Division created   

1963  Near Kapuskasing Ontarioa shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded0   

1963  Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), results in the deaths of herself in London at 30.   

1964  Beatles inaugural live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum.   

1964  Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.   

1964  Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France.   

1965  Beatles drummer Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox in London.   

1968  Israeli-Jordan border fight.   

1968  Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY   

1968  Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78.   

1969  Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champion   

1969  In Montreal Quebec Canadian and West Indian student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University.   

1969  James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48   

1970  26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington NH (state 24-hour record)   

1970  Japan joins the space race, by launching a satellite into earth orbit.   

1970  Japan launches its inaugural satellite into orbit   

1970  Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87.   

1971  US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons   

1971  Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria   

1972  Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80.   

1973  Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65   

1974  Titan-Centaur test launch fails   

1974  Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell and Son), dies at 85   

1975  Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership.   

1976  Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as inaugural black Secretary of Army   

1976  Alice Allen, actress (Call of the Hills), dies   

1977  20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean).   

1977  Off Nova Scotia fisherman catches 20.2 kg lobster off Nova Scotia; the world's heaviest known crustacean.   

1977  Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74.   

1978  16 Unification church couples wed in New York NY.   

1978  China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens.   

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1377  King ladislas of naples: King ladislas of naples (d. 1414)   

1380  Gianfrancesco poggio bracciolini: Italy, humanist   

1465  Elizabeth of york: London, consort of king henry vii   

1506  Juliana van stolberg: Engraver of nassau   

1535  Gregory xiv: [niccolo sfondrati], roman catholic pope (1590-91)   

1557  John wtenbogaert: Remonstrants theologist   

1568  Honoré d'urfé: French writer   

1649  William carstares: Scottish minister   

0641  Heraclius: Emperor of byzantium (610-641),   

0731  Gregory ii: Greek-syrian pope,   

0821  Benedict of aniane: Saint,   

0824  Paschal i: Italian pope (817-24),   

0867  Theodora: The saint, beauty queen/empress of byzantine,   

1141  Hugo of st-victor: Philosopher/theologist/mystic,   

1160  Minamoto no yoshitomo: Japanese general (b. 1123)   

1503  Death of Elizabeth of york: Consort of king henry vii,