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1942 Vera Figner, writer, dies. 
1943 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms
1943 Cecil Parkin, cricketer (32 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng 1920-24), dies
1944 inaugural B-29 test-raid on Japanese industrial cities is deemed satisfactory
1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific.
1950 Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir and 1779 Parana.
1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
1952 Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70.
1956 John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for the inaugural time as Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record).
1958 Francois de Vries, economist, dies at 74
1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman
1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes.
1962 Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84
1965 E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902
1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
1967 Edward Eagan, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32), dies at 69.
1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral.
1968 Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88.
1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark and Buck Owens premiers on CBS TV.
1969 Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies.
1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League.
1972 75000 attend gathering of religious leader Billy Graham, in Texas.
1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) leads to 2 train crash; 107 die
1973 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC.
1977 General elections held in Spain, the inaugural since 1936
1977 Spain's inaugural free elections since 1936
1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who is recorded as becoming Queen Noor.
1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
1978 Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83.
1979 The inaugural space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds.
1979 Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67
1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.
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