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1950 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs 
1950 Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
1951 Wages in France increase 11%.
1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1952 Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
1953 Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France.
1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day).
1956 Sudan is recorded as becoming independent.
1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
1957 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
1958 inaugural launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA.
1958 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1960 Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
1961 A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies
1962 French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria
1962 JFK visits San Francisco
1962 Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80.
1963 Davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship
1964 Two Marine helicopter crews of VMO-1 rescued 11 sick, injured and wounded members of a road engineering party that had survived attacks by hostile Indians in the dense jungle of the Amazon basin near Iquitos, Peru.
1964 Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59.
1965 LCDR John W. Young, USN, Pilot of Gemini 3 completed 3 orbits in 4 hours., 53 minutes at an altitude of 224 km. Recovery was by helicopters from USS Intrepid (CVS-11).
1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed.
1965 Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75.
1966 inaugural official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church.
1966 Johannes W Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie), dies at 82.
1967 Duncan Macrae, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61
1968 Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49.
1969 Rally for Decency (Miami)
1969 Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87.
1971 Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, proclaims its independence.
1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce.
1971 Armin Loos, composer, dies at 67.
1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
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