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Tuesday, 02 June 2026
1970 Ard Schenk is recorded as becoming world champion all-round skater 
1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, results in the deaths of 102.
1970 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo.
1971 After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
1971 Britain changes its currency to the decimal system.
1971 Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at 63
1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos is recorded as becoming metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos.
1972 President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
1972 Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66
1973 Ottawa restricts oil exports to US, due to possible shortages.
1973 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200300 km).
1973 Tim Holt, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children), dies of cancer at 55.
1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrives in Switzerland after being expelled from the USSR
1974 Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer, dies at 86.
1975 Julian Huxley, biologist, dies.
1976 12th Winter Olympics games close at Innsbruck, Austria.
1977 Royal Bank transfers three head office departments from Montreal to Toronto.
1977 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election.
1978 England all out 64 for inaugural loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott Captain).
1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL
1978 In a split decision, Leon Spinks takes the heavyweight boxing champion title away from defending champ Muhammad Ali.
1978 Zaire revises constitution
1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party), dies at 72.
1979 21st Grammy Awards Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey win
1979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 minutes
1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show.
1979 Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too Short...), dies at 51.
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 500 meter in 38.03 seconds.
1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George NY.
1981 Jack Crapp, cricketer (7 Tests for England 1948-49, 319 runs), dies
1982 Eighty-four workers die when an oil drilling rig sinks off the coast of Newfoundland during a storm
1982 Off the Newfoundlandthe oil drilling rig Ocean Ranger capsizes and sinks in 18 m waves during a fierce storm on the Grand Banks 315 km east of St. John's; all 84 crewmen, 56 of whom are Newfoundlanders, drown in worst marine disaster in Canada.
1984 500000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad.
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