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1961 In this year, 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL claims 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF. 
1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
1962 Fred Baldasare is inaugural to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1962 The inaugural transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1964 Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64.
1965 Ray Collins actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75
1966 Delmore Schwartz, US poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52
1967 Canadian Pacific inaugurates inaugural major unit train, shipping 3700 tons of sulfuric acid from Copper Cliff to CIL in Sarnia
1967 Kenny Rogers forms inaugural Edition
1967 The inaugural major "unit train" movement in Canada is inaugurated by Canadian Pacific - 3700 tons of sulphuric acid from the Copper Cliff plant of CIL nr. Sudbury to Sarnia, Ontario
1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
1971 Carleton Young actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64.
1973 Isabel Randolph actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83
1973 Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
1974 In this year, House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry.
1974 World Football League plays inaugural games.
1975 Army of life-size terracotta soldiers discovered in China.
1975 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2489 Suvorov.
1975 Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89.
1976 In the Panama-Colombia Border Region, The foreshock, a magnitude 6.7, was followed by a major earthquake of magnitude 7.0 four hours later. Several injured and10 houses and 1 bridge were destroyed in the area.
1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr.
1979 Debris from the US Skylab space station fall on Australia
1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates.
1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran.
1980 Peggy Knudson acttress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57
1980 Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80.
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1000 m, 2 12.18.
1982 Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid.
1983 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3485 Barucci
1984 England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
1984 Karel Mengelberg, composer, dies at 81.
1985 Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden.
1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10000 m in world record 30 13.74.
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