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1951 Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You". 
1951 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records.
1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH
1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
1953 Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76
1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1955 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours and Pajama Game win
1956 French commandos land in Algeria
1956 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker".
1956 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1957 29th Academy Awards "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner and Ingrid Bergman win.
1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
1958 Havana Hilton opens.
1958 Nikita Khrushchev is recorded as becoming Soviet premier and inaugural Secretary of Communist Party.
1959 Grant Withers, actor (Okla Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
1960 Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58
1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen.
1961 Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve and Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37.
1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1964 Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history.
1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1964 On the island of Cyprus the inaugural Canadians troops start duties with UN peacekeeping force
1964 UN troops arrive on Cyprus.
1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe and Australia.
1966 Canada launches 158 kg. instrument package into upper atmosphere; to study aurora borealis; inaugural all-Canadian space project, using Black Brant rocket
1966 Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82
1967 Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49.
1968 Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco.
1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia.
1968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34
1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2190 miles above southern Mars
1969 Ottawa to build new international airport at Mirabel, near St-Jerome, 42 km north of Montreal , a BIG waste of money it later closes
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