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1947 Communists grab power in Hungary. 
1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Port Deposit and Perryville MD, results in the deaths of 53.
1947 Italian Government of Gasperi forms
1947 Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39.
1948 Jose Vianna da Motta, composer, dies at 80
1949 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later).
1951 Netherlands and South Africa sign cultural accord.
1952 Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies.
1953 Lebanese President Camille Shamun disbands government
1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities.
1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1955 "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500.
1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1960 Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78.
1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens.
1961 Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated.
1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Education of New Rochelle, to integrate.
1961 South Africa is recorded as becoming an independent republic.
1961 Union of South Africa is recorded as becoming a republic, leaves the Commonwealth.
1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
1962 Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56.
1963 Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63
1964 Charles Schmid results in the deaths of inaugural Pied Piper victim
1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
1969 In this year, Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amour"
1970 At 03 23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70000 die)
1971 Dainty Ironmonger, cricketer (74 wkts in 14 Tests after age 46), dies
1972 In this year, Ajax claims Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam
1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1000th cricket run of English season.
1973 Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89.
1974 Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights.
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