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1959  Tibet abolishes serfdom.   

1959  2000 ft long by 1300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis   

1959  Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies of drug OD at 44   

1961  John Chancellor is recorded as becoming news anchor of the Today Show.   

1961  Ty Cobb Detroit Tiger hall of fame baseball player, dies at 75.   

1961  Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74.   

1962  Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354300 ft).   

1962  Senate rejects medicare for the aged   

1964  Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph).   

1965  Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57.   

1966  Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3).   

1966  Pioneer 7 launched   

1966  August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71   

1967  Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act   

1967  Race riots in Cairo Illinois.   

1967  Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot and Blue), dies at 74   

1968  Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premiers in London   

1968  Revolt in Iraq.   

1970  30000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC.   

1970  Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74   

1971  Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76.   

1972  The inaugural 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico   

1974  John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days.   

1974  The inaugural quadrophinic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues.   

1974  Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63.   

1975  Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make inaugural US/USSR linkup in space   

1975  Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox divorce   

1975  The US and USSR link up in space, with the Apollo Soyuz mission   

1975  Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)   

1978  Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51.   

1979  Sebastian Coe runs world record 3 49 mile in Oslo   

1979  Doug Meintjes, S Afr cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies   

1979  Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo   

1980  Military coup in Bolivia   

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1487  Esma'il i: Shah who converted iran from sunni to shi'ah   

1487  Ismail i: Shah of persia   

1674  Isaac watts: England, writer/preacher/hymnist (horae lyrican)   

1702  Johann schneider: Composer   

1744  Elbridge gerry: (dr) 5th vp (mass-gov), invented gerrymandering   

1745  Petr alekseevich pahlen: Russian general   

1763  Johannes h van der palm: Dutch theologist/minister of education   

1763  John jacob astor: Germany, richest man in us, banker/fur trader   

0656  Death of Uthman ibn affan: Third caliph, assassinated   

0924  Edward: The older, english speaking king (899-924),   

1025  Death of Boleslaw i chobry: [the brave], duke/king of poland,   

1070  Death of Boudouin vi: Count of flanders/henegouwen,   

1345  Death of Jacob van artevelde: [manner man], flemish broker, lynched   

1453  John talbot: 1st earl of shrewsbury, english military leader   

1510  Edmund dudley: English minister of justice/finance,   

1531  Hosokawa takakuni: Japanese military commander (b. 1484)