Page 6: Historical Events In July - 18
Tuesday, 07 April 2026
1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright) 

1960 1st UN troops reach Congo 

1961 Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games 

1961 Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67. 

1962 Minn Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn and Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning 

1963 Failed military coup in Syria 

1963 A H C Cooper, S Africa cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies. 

1964 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln) 

1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit 

1965 In this year, Kathy Whitworth claims LPGA Yankee Golf Open. 

1965 Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64. 

1966 Bobby Fuller rocker (I Fought the Law), are discovered dead 

1966 Gemini 10 launched. 

1966 Launch of Gemini 10 with LCDR John W. Young, USN as Command Pilot. Mission involved 43 orbits at an altitude of 412.2 nautical miles and lasted 2 days, 22 hours, and 46 minutes. Recovery was by HS-3 helicopter from USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) 

1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old. 

1966 Bobby Fuller, rocker (I Fought the Law), are discovered dead at 22. 

1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY 

1967 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-87), dies at 66 

1968 C Torres discovers asteroid #2654 Ristenpart 

1968 Intel incorporates 

1969 Barbara Pepper actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57. 

1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL. 

1969 Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge 

1969 Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57 

1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily 

1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time. 

1970 Willie Mays hits # 3000. 

1970 Lucien H d'Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86 

1972 200000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns 

1973 British actor Jack Hawkins actor, dies at 62. 

1973 Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62. 

1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed 

1975 Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74. 

1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut 

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