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1958 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79 
1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled.
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony.
1960 Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
1961 Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83.
1962 Island Records begins
1962 Rex Bell cowboy (Cowboys and Injuns), dies at 56
1962 Rex Bell, actor/lt-gov (Nevada), dies of heart attack at 56
1963 Grant Richards actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
1963 Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66.
1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act.
1967 Freedom of Information Act comes into force
1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK.
1969 140000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin.
1969 Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbeldon Ladies championship
1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons.
1970 Harold Vanderbilt America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1971 Don McPherson, rocker, dies at 29
1973 A Liberian tanker collides with a grain-carrier in the St. Lawrence River at Trois-Pistoles.
1973 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
1974 Off Newfoundland, nearly 250 large icebergs are counted along the eastern shores off Newfoundland
1974 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies.
1975 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
1977 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher.
1977 In this year, Nigel Harrison formally adopts in place of Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332.
1978 Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1979 In Eastern China a 5.4 quake was centered about 225 kilometers southwest of Shanghai in the Liyang area. At least 41 people were reported killed, more than 2000 were injured
1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB.
1982 Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbeldon championship.
1982 Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
1983 Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65.
1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins.
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