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Tuesday, 11 August 2026
1966 James Goldman's "Lion in Winter", premieres in New York NY. 
1966 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al).
1966 Twister hits Jackson MS; 3 minutes after inaugural sighting, 57 die
1966 Alice Pearce, comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52
1967 Eric Burdon and the Animals refuse to do a show in Ottawa unless they are paid in advance; audience of 3000 go on a rampage, doing $5000 in damages.
1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain, later the U.S. will come calling.
1967 Georges Lonque, composer, dies at 66.
1968 Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague.
1969 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days).
1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain GA
1974 George Foreman KOs Ken Norton.
1974 World's worst air disaster to date, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris France (346 die).
1974 Barbara Ruick, actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43
1975 Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
1975 In this year, Thomas Berger 1933- starts public hearings into social and environmental costs of planned 4184 km Mackenzie Valley pipeline.
1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia.
1976 Alfred Sendrey, composer, dies at 92.
1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms.
1977 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov (USSR).
1977 Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93.
1978 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island.
1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ).
1982 Statistics Canada confirms that Canada entered a recession in 1982. Gee all they had to do was ask me I could have told them
1982 Georges Perec, French writer, dies at 45.
1983 Arthur Koestler, Hung/Brit writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77
1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres.
1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1985 Near Coast of Central Chile a 7.8earthquate killed at least 177 people killed, 2575 injured and extensive damage in central Chile, including the cities of San Antonio, Valparaiso, Vina del Mar, Santiago and Rancagua
1985 Sarah Blanding, 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
1986 Dedication of the National Naval Memorial in Anzac Parade, Canberra, by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Australian Navy
1987 Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74
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