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1968 Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in UK, their only double album 
1969 Acario Cotapos, composer, dies at 80
1971 Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65
1972 Chuck Thacker, a computer scientist at Xerox PARC, started designing the Alto computer, designed to improve the quality of machine-human interactions.
1972 The United States loses its inaugural B-52 of the war. The eight-engine bomber was brought down by a North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile near Vinh on the day when B-52s flew their heaviest raids of the war over North Vietnam.
1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1975 King Juan Carlos II sworn in as head of state, two days after the death of Spanish dictator General Franco
1976 Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box), dies at 59.
1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY and Europe begins.
1977 Reg Perks, England cricket pace bowler (1938-39), dies.
1979 Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63.
1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1980 Herbert Wade, cricketer (S African batsman and captain 1935-36), dies
1981 Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante), dies at 74
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
1982 Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80.
1983 Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58.
1985 Columbia moves to the Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C.
1985 Lee Iacocca, the CEO of the Chrysler Corporation, presided over the largest swearing-in ceremony for new U.S. citizens in American history.
1985 Microsoft signed an agreement with Apple, allowing Microsoft to copy visual characteristics of Apple's Macintosh in its Microsoft Windows software.
1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title
1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals.
1986 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73.
1987 Ted Taylor, rock vocalist, dies
1988 In the presence of members of Congress and the media, the B-2 "stealth" bomber is shown publicly for the inaugural time at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California
1988 Stealth Bomber unveiled in public.
1988 Erich Fried, writer, dies at 67.
1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and the Moon
1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving.
1990 Margaret Thatcher, the inaugural female prime minister in British history, steps down after eleven years in Britain's top office
1996 America Online agreed to provide a pop-up screen asking members to select a pricing plan
2005 In this year, Microsoft releases the Xbox 360 gaming console in North America.
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