...date... age event
1946/--/-- -1 - american author robert penn warren publishes all the king's men.
1946/--/-- -1 - communists abolish the monarchy in bulgaria; georgi dimitrov becomes premier.
1946/--/-- -1 - dr. spock publishes the commonsense book of baby and child care.
1946/--/-- -1 - elas communist forces begin a civil war in greece.
1946/--/-- -1 - eniac, the first successful electronic digital computer, becomes operational.
1946/--/-- -1 - elections in italy abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1946/--/-- -1 - general de gaulle resigns as president of france; the fourth republic is formed.
1946/--/-- -1 - greek author nikos kazantzakis publishes zorba the greek.
1946/--/-- -1 - juan peron is elected president of argentina.
1946/--/-- -1 - macarthur promotes japanese democracy with the emperor as constitutional monarch.
1946/--/-- -1 - saint frances xavier cabrini becomes the first u.s. citizen to be canonized.
1946/--/-- -1 - swiss-french architect le corbusier designs unite d'habitation in marseilles.
1946/--/-- -1 - terence rattigan's play the winslow boy is produced.
1946/--/-- -1 - the philippines are granted independence with manuel roxas y acuna as president.
1946/--/-- -1 - the viet minh begin a guerrilla war against the french in indochina (vietnam).
1946/--/-- -1 - winston churchill describes the iron curtain created in europe by the soviets.
1946/10/-- -1 - world series nl st. louis (4) al boston (3)
1946/11/23 0 *** thompson, gayle (dalton) - born bell county kentucky
1947/--/-- 0 - american pilot kenneth arnold makes the first alleged sighting of flying saucers.
1947/--/-- 0 - artist jackson pollock produces full fathom five using drip paint techniques.
1947/--/-- 0 - artist mark rothko begins experimenting with color-field painting.
1947/--/-- 0 - baseball player jackie robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues.
1947/--/-- 0 - british & french empires fracture into new 3rd world nations
1947/--/-- 0 - british india becomes pakistan & india
1947/--/-- 0 - british atomic bomb scientist klaus fuchs is arrested for giving information to the ussr.
1947/--/-- 0 - chuck yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in an x-1 rocket plane.
1947/--/-- 0 - conductor sir thomas beecham forms the royal philharmonic orchestra in london.
1947/--/-- 0 - dennis gabor invents holography, a means of producing a three-dimensional image.
1947/--/-- 0 - edwin land demonstrates the single-step polaroid land camera.
1947/--/-- 0 - english composer benjamin britten writes the opera peter grimes.
1947/--/-- 0 - french fashion designer christian dior opens his own couture house.
1947/--/-- 0 - french literary figure andre gide wins the nobel prize for literature.
1947/--/-- 0 - gheorghiu-dej heads the romanian communist party; king michael abdicates.
1947/--/-- 0 - india becomes independent and is divided into the nations of india and pakistan.
1947/--/-- 0 - jawaharlal nehru becomes the first prime minister of india.
1947/--/-- 0 - marshall plan
1947/--/-- 0 - norwegian explorer thor heyerdahl sails on the balsa raft kon tiki from peru to polynesia.
1947/--/-- 0 - tennessee williams' play a streetcar named desire is produced.
1947/--/-- 0 - the dead sea scrolls, a collection of ancient hebrew documents, are discovered.
1947/--/-- 0 - the u.s. marshall plan for economic recovery in europe is established.
1947/--/-- 0 - the united nations elect to partition palestine into arab and jewish states.
1947/--/-- 0 - the first india-pakistan war begins when pakistani tribesmen invade kashmir.
1947/--/-- 0 - the story of a jewish victim of the nazis, the diary of anne frank, is published.
1947/--/-- 0 - trust territory of the pacific islands, captured from japan, administered by u.s.
1947/--/-- 0 - u.s. contains spread of communism
1947/10/-- 0 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1948/--/-- 1 - alec guinness stars as fagin in the film of dicken's oliver twist.
1948/--/-- 1 - alfred kinsey publishes his report on sexual behavior in the human male.
1948/--/-- 1 - american opera singer beverly sills debuts in bizet's carmen.
1948/--/-- 1 - american writer norman mailer publishes the war novel the naked and the dead.
1948/--/-- 1 - arab armies invade israel in the first arab-israeli war.
1948/--/-- 1 - bell labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 1 - britain grants independence to burma.
1948/--/-- 1 - communism quashed in us
1948/--/-- 1 - communist leader kim il sung establishes the people's republic of korea (n. korea).
1948/--/-- 1 - dutch track star fanny blankers-koen wins four gold medals in the olympic games.
1948/--/-- 1 - george balanchine's ballet society is renamed the new york city ballet.
1948/--/-- 1 - indian leader mahatma gandhi is assassinated by a hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 1 - israel created
1948/--/-- 1 - italian filmmaker vittorio de sica directs the bicycle thieves.
1948/--/-- 1 - nato formed; cold war begins
1948/--/-- 1 - palestinian jews proclaim the independent state of israel.
1948/--/-- 1 - stalin expels yugoslavia from the communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 1 - the communist party assumes power in hungary under matyas rakosi.
1948/--/-- 1 - the malayan communist party begins an insurrection against british rule.
1948/--/-- 1 - the republic of korea (s. korea) is inaugurated, syngman rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 1 - the soviets blockade west berlin; britain and the u.s. begin the berlin airlift.
1948/--/-- 1 - the u.s. air force begins the project blue book study of the ufo phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 1 - the apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in south africa.
1948/--/-- 1 - the transistor is invented at bell laboratories in the u.s.
1948/10/-- 1 - world series nl boston (2) al cleveland (4)
1949/--/-- 2 - abstract artist robert motherwell begins his series elegy to the spanish republic.
1949/--/-- 2 - abstract-expressionism breaks out in nyc
1949/--/-- 2 - architect philip johnson designs the glass house in new caanan, conn.
1949/--/-- 2 - arthur miller's play death of a salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 2 - british abstract sculptor henry moore completes the bronze family group.
1949/--/-- 2 - british author george orwell publishes the futuristic novel nineteen eighty-four.
1949/--/-- 2 - civil war ends in greece with the defeat of the communist forces.
1949/--/-- 2 - communists under mao defeat the nationalists and form the people's republic of china.
1949/--/-- 2 - konrad adenauer becomes the first chancellor of west germany.
1949/--/-- 2 - kurchatov develops first soviet a-bomb
1949/--/-- 2 - miles davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 2 - nationalist chinese forces under chiang kai-shek flee to the island of taiwan.
1949/--/-- 2 - rogers and hammerstein's broadway musical south pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 2 - the hashimite kingdom of transjordan is renamed as jordan.
1949/--/-- 2 - the netherlands grants independence to indonesia (formerly the dutch east indies).
1949/--/-- 2 - the north atlantic treaty organization is formed to deter soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 2 - the republic of germany (west germany) is established by the western powers.
1949/--/-- 2 - the soviet union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 2 - the soviets establish the german democratic republic (east germany).
1949/--/-- 2 - the first india-pakistan war ends with the partition of kashmir.
1949/10/-- 2 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al new york (4)
1950/--/-- 3 - adnan menderes replaces ismet inonu as prime minister of turkey.
1950/--/-- 3 - bette davis stars in the film all about eve.
1950/--/-- 3 - cartoonist charles schulz creates the peanuts comic strip.
1950/--/-- 3 - chinese forces invade tibet, which is officially annexed in 1951.
1950/--/-- 3 - communist north korean forces invade south korea.
1950/--/-- 3 - george burns and gracie allen star in the burns and allen show television series.
1950/--/-- 3 - isaac asimov publishes the science-fiction classic i robot.
1950/--/-- 3 - japanese film director akira kurosawa achieves recognition with rashomon.
1950/--/-- 3 - korean "engagement"
1950/--/-- 3 - president truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1950/--/-- 3 - senator joseph mccarthy begins his inquiry into un-american activities.
1950/--/-- 3 - the un sanctions military aid for south korea; macarthur is appointed commander.
1950/--/-- 3 - u.s. official alger hiss is convicted of perjury for denying that he knew a soviet agent.
1950/--/-- 3 - un forces cross into north korea but are repulsed by the chinese army.
1950/--/-- 3 - un forces land at inchon and drive the north koreans out of south korea.
1950/10/-- 3 - world series nl philadelphia (0) al new york (4)
1951/--/-- 4 - a frontline is stabilized at the 38th parallel in korea; peace negotiations begin at kaesong.
1951/--/-- 4 - american novelist kurt vonnegut publishes player piano.
1951/--/-- 4 - american poet marianne moore publishes her collected poems.
1951/--/-- 4 - american writer j.d. salinger publishes the catcher in the rye.
1951/--/-- 4 - american writer james jones publishes the war novel from here to eternity.
1951/--/-- 4 - artist stuart davis uses words to function as abstract shapes in his painting visa.
1951/--/-- 4 - australia, new zealand, and the u.s. sign the mutual defense anzus treaty.
1951/--/-- 4 - auto racer juan fangio wins the world driving championship for the first time.
1951/--/-- 4 - boxer sugar ray robinson defeats jake la motta for the middleweight title.
1951/--/-- 4 - british conservatives win a general election with winston churchill as leader.
1951/--/-- 4 - british spies burgess and maclean escape to the soviet union.
1951/--/-- 4 - comedian lucille ball stars in the television series i love lucy.
1951/--/-- 4 - igor stravinsky's opera the rake's progress is premiered.
1951/--/-- 4 - julius and ethel rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the u.s.
1951/--/-- 4 - king abdullah of jordan is assassinated by a palestinian nationalist.
1951/--/-- 4 - leopold iii of belgium is forced to abdicate because of his wartime conduct.
1951/--/-- 4 - president truman dismisses macarthur as commander in korea.
1951/--/-- 4 - prime minister muhammad mosaddeq nationalizes iran's oil resources.
1951/--/-- 4 - rodgers and hammerstein's broadway musical the king and i is produced.
1951/--/-- 4 - teller tests h-bomb
1951/--/-- 4 - ten million television receivers have been installed in u.s. homes.
1951/--/-- 4 - the 22nd amendment restricts u.s. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
1951/--/-- 4 - the un general assembly brands communist china an aggressor in the korean war.
1951/--/-- 4 - the first successful videotape for recording television images is demonstrated.
1951/--/-- 4 - univac i, the first commercial computer, is accepted by the u.s. bureau of the census.
1951/10/-- 4 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1952/--/-- 5 - a bloodless coup returns fulgencio batista to power in cuba.
1952/--/-- 5 - agatha christie's record-breaking play the mouse trap opens in london.
1952/--/-- 5 - american sculptor isamu noguchi designs two bridges for the peace park at hiroshima.
1952/--/-- 5 - american writer e.b. white publishes the children's book charlotte's web.
1952/--/-- 5 - british architect michael ventris deciphers the ancient greek linear b script.
1952/--/-- 5 - chuck yaeger sets a new air speed record of 1,650 mph in the x-1a research plane.
1952/--/-- 5 - communist pow riots in south korea delay peace negotiations.
1952/--/-- 5 - czech runner emil zatopek wins 3 gold medals in the helsinki olympic games.
1952/--/-- 5 - dancer gene kelly stars in the film singin' in the rain.
1952/--/-- 5 - eva peron, popularly known as evita, dies in argentina.
1952/--/-- 5 - gary cooper and grace kelly star in the western film high noon.
1952/--/-- 5 - gordon bunshaft designs the lever house, an early international style building.
1952/--/-- 5 - hostilities continue in korea with increased un air strikes against the north.
1952/--/-- 5 - king farouk of egypt is overthrown in a revolution led by gen. muhammad naguib.
1952/--/-- 5 - kwame nkrumah is elected prime minister of the gold coast (ghana).
1952/--/-- 5 - medical missionary albert schweitzer is awarded the nobel peace prize.
1952/--/-- 5 - opera singer maria callas debuts at london's covent garden.
1952/--/-- 5 - queen elizabeth ii ascends to the british throne on the death of her father george vi.
1952/--/-- 5 - samuel beckett's play waiting for godot is produced in paris.
1952/--/-- 5 - the british de havilland comet becomes the first jet airliner to enter service.
1952/--/-- 5 - the commonwealth of puerto rico is formed with luis munoz marin as governor.
1952/--/-- 5 - the mau mau uprising begins in kenya; jomo kenyatta is imprisoned.
1952/--/-- 5 - the u.s. tests the first hydrogen bomb in the pacific.
1952/--/-- 5 - the first automatic pinsetter is installed in a bowling alley in brooklyn, n.y.
1952/--/-- 5 - turkey joins the north atlantic treaty organization (nato).
1952/--/-- 5 - vice-presidential candidate richard nixon makes his checkers speech.
1952/02/-- 5 - elizabeth ii succeeds as queen of great britain and ireland.
1952/10/-- 5 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1953/--/-- 6 - a redstone rocket (based on the german v-2) is tested at cape canaveral.
1953/--/-- 6 - american physicist charles h. townes invents the maser.
1953/--/-- 6 - american tennis player maureen connolly (little mo) wins the grand slam.
1953/--/-- 6 - american writer saul bellow publishes the adventures of augie march.
1953/--/-- 6 - an armistice ends the korean war; the country remains divided into north and south.
1953/--/-- 6 - arthur miller writes the crucible, a play about the salem witch trials.
1953/--/-- 6 - black writer james baldwin publishes his first novel go tell it on the mountain.
1953/--/-- 6 - communist statesman imre nagy becomes premier of hungary.
1953/--/-- 6 - dag hammarskjold succeeds trygve lie as secretary-general of the un.
1953/--/-- 6 - dwight d. eisenhower (republican) becomes president of the united states
1953/--/-- 6 - edmund hillary and tenzing norgay are the first to climb mount everest.
1953/--/-- 6 - eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th u.s. president; nixon becomes vice-president.
1953/--/-- 6 - fidel castro leads an attack on an army barracks in cuba; he is captured and imprisoned.
1953/--/-- 6 - golfer ben hogan wins the u.s. open, masters, and british open tournaments.
1953/--/-- 6 - hugh hefner publishes the first issue of playboy magazine.
1953/--/-- 6 - hussein i succeeds his father as king of jordan.
1953/--/-- 6 - israeli prime minister ben-gurion retires; he is succeeded by moshe sharett.
1953/--/-- 6 - jacques piccard's bathyscaphe the trieste descends to a depth of 10,330 ft.
1953/--/-- 6 - james watson and francis crick propose the double helix structure of dna.
1953/--/-- 6 - john foster dulles is selected as the u.s. secretary of state.
1953/--/-- 6 - laos, formerly a part of french indochina, is granted independence.
1953/--/-- 6 - lavrenti beria, head of the soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
1953/--/-- 6 - marilyn monroe stars in the film gentlemen prefer blondes.
1953/--/-- 6 - murray gell-mann proposes the strangeness property of some subatomic particles.
1953/--/-- 6 - physicist donald glaser invents the bubble chamber to detect subnuclear particles.
1953/--/-- 6 - soviet dictator joseph stalin dies; georgy m. malenkov becomes the new premier.
1953/--/-- 6 - the first heart-lung machine is developed by dr. john gibbon.
1953/--/-- 6 - the fossil remains of piltdown man are proved a hoax 41 years after their discovery.
1953/--/-- 6 - watson & crick dna=double helix
1953/06/-- 6 - elizabeth ii crowned queen of great britain and northern ireland at westminster
1953/10/-- 6 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al new york (4)
1954/--/-- 7 - a supreme court decision prohibits racial segregation in u.s. public schools.
1954/--/-- 7 - american novelist evan hunter publishes the blackboard jungle.
1954/--/-- 7 - british artist francis bacon begins his portrait of pope innocent x series.
1954/--/-- 7 - british novelist william golding publishes lord of the flies.
1954/--/-- 7 - dylan thomas' radio play under milk wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- 7 - english runner roger bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- 7 - french forces are defeated at the battle of dien bien phu in north vietnam.
1954/--/-- 7 - gamal abdel nasser ousts gen. muhammad naguib as president of egypt.
1954/--/-- 7 - ian fleming publishes the first james bond thriller casino royale.
1954/--/-- 7 - italian film-maker federico fellini directs la strada.
1954/--/-- 7 - kingsley amis, one of england's angry young men, publishes lucky jim.
1954/--/-- 7 - marlon brando stars in elia kazan's film on the waterfront.
1954/--/-- 7 - national liberation front (fln) raids on french property spark the algerian war.
1954/--/-- 7 - senator mccarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- 7 - television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- 7 - the geneva conference establishes the partition of vietnam into north and south.
1954/--/-- 7 - the u.s. and canada begin construction of the st. lawrence seaway.
1954/--/-- 7 - the u.s. nuclear submarine the nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- 7 - u.s. "nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/10/-- 7 - world series nl new york (4) al cleveland (0)
1955/--/-- 8 - a military coup in argentina deposes president juan peron.
1955/--/-- 8 - afl and cio merge
1955/--/-- 8 - american artist jasper johns begins his paintings of american flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 8 - american artist larry rivers paints double portrait of birdie.
1955/--/-- 8 - american rock 'n' roll musician bill haley records rock around the clock.
1955/--/-- 8 - anthony eden succeeds winston churchill as prime minister of great britain.
1955/--/-- 8 - austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 8 - blacks boycott buses in montgomery
1955/--/-- 8 - british writer graham greene publishes the quiet american.
1955/--/-- 8 - british writer and scholar j.r.r. tolkien completes the lord of the rings.
1955/--/-- 8 - david ben-gurion returns as prime minister of israel.
1955/--/-- 8 - film star james dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 8 - jonas salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 8 - marian anderson becomes the first black to perform at the metropolitan opera house.
1955/--/-- 8 - martin luther king, jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 8 - russian writer vladimir nabokov publishes the novel lolita.
1955/--/-- 8 - satyajit ray directs pather panchali, the first film in a trilogy on bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 8 - supreme court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 8 - the federal republic of germany joins nato.
1955/--/-- 8 - the warsaw pact establishes a military alliance of european communist nations.
1955/--/-- 8 - theologian pierre teilhard de chardin publishes the phenomenon of man.
1955/10/-- 8 - world series nl brooklyn (4) al new york (3)
1956/--/-- 9 - american beat poet allen ginsberg publishes howl and other poems.
1956/--/-- 9 - american television news show the huntley-brinkley report begins.
1956/--/-- 9 - american writer grace metalious publishes peyton place.
1956/--/-- 9 - anglo-french forces invade egypt but withdraw after protests from the u.s.
1956/--/-- 9 - archbishop makarios iii is deported from cyprus by the british.
1956/--/-- 9 - brendan behan's play the quare fellow opens in london.
1956/--/-- 9 - britain, france and israel agree on a secret joint action against egypt.
1956/--/-- 9 - british artist richard hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 9 - david niven stars in the film around the world in eighty days.
1956/--/-- 9 - eugene o'neill's play long day's journey into night is produced.
1956/--/-- 9 - fidel castro and che guevara land in cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 9 - film actress grace kelly marries prince rainier iii of monaco.
1956/--/-- 9 - heavyweight boxing champion rocky marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 9 - israeli forces under moshe dayan seize the gaza strip and the sinai peninsula.
1956/--/-- 9 - john osborne's first play look back in anger is produced in london.
1956/--/-- 9 - lerner and loewe's musical my fair lady opens in new york.
1956/--/-- 9 - president anastasio somoza garcia is assassinated in nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 9 - president nasser nationalizes the suez canal before the british lease expires.
1956/--/-- 9 - president ngo dinh diem refuses to hold elections in south vietnam.
1956/--/-- 9 - rock 'n roll singer elvis presley records his first hit heartbreak hotel.
1956/--/-- 9 - soviet first secretary nikita khrushchev denounces the crimes of the stalin era.
1956/--/-- 9 - sudan gains independence from anglo-egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 9 - the hungarian uprising is suppressed by soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 9 - the italian ocean liner andrea doria sinks off the u.s. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 9 - tunisia and morocco are granted independence by france.
1956/10/-- 9 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1957/--/-- 10 - beat generation writer jack kerouac publishes on the road.
1957/--/-- 10 - black tennis player althea gibson wins the u.s. open and wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 10 - british philosopher a.j. ayer publishes the problem of knowledge.
1957/--/-- 10 - british prime minister anthony eden resigns; is succeeded by harold macmillan.
1957/--/-- 10 - dr. seuss publishes the children's book the cat in the hat.
1957/--/-- 10 - francois duvalier (known as papa doc) is elected president of haiti.
1957/--/-- 10 - ghana gains independence; kwame nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 10 - jack kerouac "on the road"
1957/--/-- 10 - jerome robbins is director-choreographer of the musical west side story.
1957/--/-- 10 - john g. diefenbaker succeeds louis st. laurent as prime minister of canada.
1957/--/-- 10 - lawrence durrell publishes justine, the first of the alexandria quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 10 - scientists from 67 nations work together during the international geophysical year.
1957/--/-- 10 - soviet leaders malenkov and molotov fail in an attempt to oust khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 10 - soviets launch "sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 10 - swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman directs the seventh seal.
1957/--/-- 10 - the israeli army withdraws from egypt; the gaza strip is policed by un forces.
1957/--/-- 10 - the ussr launches sputnik i, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 10 - the viet cong begin acts of rebellion in south vietnam.
1957/--/-- 10 - tunku abdul rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent malaya (malaysia).
1957/10/-- 10 - world series nl milwaukee (4) al new york (3)
1958/--/-- 11 - american economist j.k. galbraith publishes the affluent society.
1958/--/-- 11 - american golfer arnold palmer wins the masters tournament for the first time.
1958/--/-- 11 - american playwright edward albee writes the zoo story.
1958/--/-- 11 - american writer truman capote publishes the novella breakfast at tiffany's.
1958/--/-- 11 - bertrand russell founds the campaign for nuclear disarmament (cnd) in britain.
1958/--/-- 11 - civil war breaks out in lebanon; it is ended when u.s. marines land at beirut.
1958/--/-- 11 - egypt and syria form the united arab republic.
1958/--/-- 11 - gen. muhammad ayub khan seizes control in pakistan.
1958/--/-- 11 - leonard bernstein becomes the conductor of the new york philharmonic orchestra.
1958/--/-- 11 - nikita khrushchev replaces nikolai bulganin as soviet premier.
1958/--/-- 11 - prime minister hendrik verwoerd extends south africa's apartheid laws.
1958/--/-- 11 - russian writer boris pasternak publishes the novel doctor zhivago.
1958/--/-- 11 - soccer player pele leads brazil to victory in the world cup.
1958/--/-- 11 - the algerian crisis prompts the recall of charles de gaulle as president of france.
1958/--/-- 11 - the european economic community (eec) is established.
1958/--/-- 11 - the french army and settlers in algiers revolt over the algerian war stalemate.
1958/--/-- 11 - the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) is founded.
1958/--/-- 11 - the u.s. launches the explorer i and vanguard i scientific satellites.
1958/--/-- 11 - the first intercontinental ballistic missile (icbm) is launched in the u.s.
1958/--/-- 11 - the nuclear submarine nautilus reaches the north pole under the polar ice cap.
1958/--/-- 11 - wilson greatbatch invents an artificial pacemaker to control heartbeats.
1958/10/-- 11 - world series nl milwaukee (3) al new york (4)
1959/--/-- 12 - alaska is inaugurated as the 49th state of the union.
1959/--/-- 12 - american writer leon uris publishes exodus, a novel on the founding of israel.
1959/--/-- 12 - american writer william burroughs publishes the naked lunch.
1959/--/-- 12 - anthropologists richard and mary leakey discover an australopithecus skull in africa.
1959/--/-- 12 - artist robert rauschenberg creates the three-dimensional collage monogram.
1959/--/-- 12 - cyprus gains independence from britain; archbishop makarios becomes president.
1959/--/-- 12 - fidel castro ousts cuban leader fulgencio batista in a communist revolution.
1959/--/-- 12 - film actor charlton heston wins the academy award for his role in ben-hur.
1959/--/-- 12 - french new wave filmmaker jean luc godard directs breathless.
1959/--/-- 12 - french filmmaker alain resnais directs hiroshima mon amour.
1959/--/-- 12 - french filmmaker francois truffaut directs the 400 blows.
1959/--/-- 12 - german writer gunter grass publishes his first novel the tin drum.
1959/--/-- 12 - hawaii is inaugurated as the 50th state of the union.
1959/--/-- 12 - jack lemon, tony curtis and marilyn monroe star in the film some like it hot.
1959/--/-- 12 - jean-luc godard's new wave "breathless"
1959/--/-- 12 - lee kuan yew becomes prime minister of singapore.
1959/--/-- 12 - lorraine hansberry's a raisin in the sun is the first broadway play by a black woman.
1959/--/-- 12 - nasa selects the first seven u.s. astronauts.
1959/--/-- 12 - rock 'n roll star buddy holly is killed in a plane crash.
1959/--/-- 12 - rod serling hosts the twilight zone television series.
1959/--/-- 12 - rogers and hammerstein's broadway musical the sound of music is produced.
1959/--/-- 12 - sir christopher cockerell tests the first air-cushion vehicle.
1959/--/-- 12 - the boeing 707 jet airliner enters service.
1959/--/-- 12 - the dalai lama flees to india after china crushes an uprising in tibet.
1959/--/-- 12 - the guggenheim museum, designed by frank lloyd wright, opens in new york city.
1959/--/-- 12 - the soviet union sends a series of luna space probes to the moon.
1959/--/-- 12 - the first flight is made by the x-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
1959/10/-- 12 - world series nl los angeles (4) al chicago (2)
1960/--/-- 13 - 69 africans are killed in the sharpeville massacre in south africa.
1960/--/-- 13 - a military coup takes place in turkey; prime minister adnan menderes is executed (1961).
1960/--/-- 13 - a student uprising forces the resignation of syngman rhee, president of south korea.
1960/--/-- 13 - american author john updike publishes the novel rabbit run.
1960/--/-- 13 - american physicist theodore h. maiman demonstrates the first successful laser.
1960/--/-- 13 - american track star wilma rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the rome olympic games.
1960/--/-- 13 - an earthquake kills 15,000 at agadir in morocco.
1960/--/-- 13 - belgium grants independence to the congo (zaire); patrice lumumba becomes premier.
1960/--/-- 13 - britain grants independence to nigeria; abubakar balewa continues as prime minister.
1960/--/-- 13 - civil rights movement
1960/--/-- 13 - congo (zaire) premier patrice lumumba is ousted by joseph mobutu and murdered.
1960/--/-- 13 - filmmaker alfred hitchcock directs the suspense thriller psycho.
1960/--/-- 13 - former nazi official adolf eichmann is abducted to israel.
1960/--/-- 13 - france grants independence to the congo, chad, central african republic, and gabon.
1960/--/-- 13 - harold pinter's play the caretaker is produced.
1960/--/-- 13 - italian filmmaker michelangelo antonioni directs la notte (the night).
1960/--/-- 13 - jacques piccard and don walsh descend to 35,800 ft in the bathyscaphe trieste.
1960/--/-- 13 - maiman makes first laser
1960/--/-- 13 - nasa launches the first tiros weather satellite.
1960/--/-- 13 - religious broadcaster pat robertson founds the christian broadcasting network.
1960/--/-- 13 - sirimavo bandaranaike becomes the world's first woman prime minister in ceylon (sri lanka).
1960/--/-- 13 - south african civil rights leader albert luthuli wins the nobel peace prize.
1960/--/-- 13 - the congo crisis begins with the secession of katanga province under moise tshombe.
1960/--/-- 13 - the echo 1 experimental communications satellite is launched.
1960/--/-- 13 - the motown record company is founded in detroit by berry gordy.
1960/--/-- 13 - the south african government bans the african national congress (anc).
1960/--/-- 13 - the soviets shoot down a u-2 spy plane; u.s. pilot francis gary powers is captured.
1960/--/-- 13 - the first quasars, the most luminous known objects in the universe, are discovered.
1960/--/-- 13 - the first submerged firing is made of a polaris submarine-launched missile.
1960/--/-- 13 - the planned city of brasilia becomes the new capital of brazil.
1960/--/-- 13 - the presidential debates of john f. kennedy and richard nixon are televised.
1960/--/-- 13 - viet cong groups unite into the national liberation front of south vietnam (nlfsv).
1960/--/-- 13 - walter ulbricht becomes head of east germany.
1960/10/-- 13 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al new york (3)
1961/--/-- 14 - agostinho neto and holden roberto lead insurrections in portuguese angola.
1961/--/-- 14 - american writer joseph heller publishes the anti-war novel catch-22.
1961/--/-- 14 - american-aided cuban exiles attempt the unsuccessful bay of pigs invasion.
1961/--/-- 14 - astronaut alan shepard makes the first u.s. suborbital space flight.
1961/--/-- 14 - britain grants independence to tanganyika (tanzania) with julius nyerere as prime minister.
1961/--/-- 14 - british novelist iris murdoch publishes a severed head.
1961/--/-- 14 - english writer muriel spark publishes the prime of miss jean brodie.
1961/--/-- 14 - french filmmaker francois truffaut directs jeanne moreau in jules and jim.
1961/--/-- 14 - india annexes the portugese territories of goa, daman, and diu.
1961/--/-- 14 - italian filmmaker vittorio de sica directs sophia loren in alberto moravia's two women.
1961/--/-- 14 - italian opera singer luciano pavarotti debuts in puccini's la boheme.
1961/--/-- 14 - john f. kennedy (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1961/--/-- 14 - kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th u.s. president; johnson becomes vice-president.
1961/--/-- 14 - kennedy launches "apollo" project; man lands on the moon
1961/--/-- 14 - peace corps
1961/--/-- 14 - president kennedy begins to increase the u.s. military presence in vietnam.
1961/--/-- 14 - president kennedy establishes the peace corps.
1961/--/-- 14 - president kennedy sets a goal for landing a man on the moon within the decade.
1961/--/-- 14 - president rafael trujillo is assassinated in the dominican republic.
1961/--/-- 14 - roger maris breaks babe ruth's home-run baseball record with a season total of 61.
1961/--/-- 14 - science fiction writer robert heinlein publishes stranger in a strange land.
1961/--/-- 14 - soviet ballet dancer rudolf nureyev defects to the west.
1961/--/-- 14 - soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin orbits the earth.
1961/--/-- 14 - swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman directs max von sydow in through a glass darkly.
1961/--/-- 14 - the berlin wall is constructed, separating east and west berlin.
1961/--/-- 14 - the kurds begin a guerrilla war against iraq to gain independence for kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 14 - the kurds begin a guerrilla war against iraq to gain independence for kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 14 - the drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
1961/--/-- 14 - un secretary-general dag hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the congo (zaire).
1961/--/-- 14 - v.s. naipaul writes about west indian life in a house for mr. biswas.
1961/10/-- 14 - world series nl cincinnati (1) al new york (4)
1962/--/-- 15 - actor laurence olivier becomes the first director of the national theatre in london.
1962/--/-- 15 - aleksandr solzhenitsyn publishes one day in the life of ivan denisovich.
1962/--/-- 15 - algeria gains independence from france; ahmed ben bella becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 15 - american artist jim dine paints the pop art subject black saw.
1962/--/-- 15 - american film actress marilyn monroe dies from a drug overdose.
1962/--/-- 15 - american historian barbara tuchman publishes the guns of august.
1962/--/-- 15 - american writer katherine anne porter publishes the novel ship of fools.
1962/--/-- 15 - american writer ken kesey publishes one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
1962/--/-- 15 - astronaut john glenn becomes the first american to orbit the earth.
1962/--/-- 15 - basketball player wilt chamberlain scores a record 100 points in one game.
1962/--/-- 15 - britain grants independence to trinidad and tobago with eric williams as chief minister.
1962/--/-- 15 - britain grants independence to uganda; milton obote becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 15 - british filmmaker david lean directs lawrence of arabia.
1962/--/-- 15 - british writer anthony burgess publishes the futuristic novel a clockwork orange.
1962/--/-- 15 - burmese diplomat u thant becomes the first asian secretary general of the un.
1962/--/-- 15 - cuban missile crisis
1962/--/-- 15 - edward albee's play who's afraid of virginia woolf is produced on broadway.
1962/--/-- 15 - fashion designer yves saint laurent opens his parisian fashion house.
1962/--/-- 15 - folk-rock singer and composer bob dylan writes blowin' in the wind.
1962/--/-- 15 - georges pompidou becomes premier of france's fifth republic.
1962/--/-- 15 - polish filmmaker roman polanski directs his first film knife in the water.
1962/--/-- 15 - pop art
1962/--/-- 15 - pop artist andy warhol begins making silk screen prints of mass-media images.
1962/--/-- 15 - rachel carson criticizes indiscriminate use of pesticides in her book silent spring.
1962/--/-- 15 - richard burton and elizabeth taylor star in cleopatra, the most expensive film to date.
1962/--/-- 15 - science fiction writer j.g. ballard publishes the drowned world.
1962/--/-- 15 - sonny liston defeats floyd patterson to become heavyweight boxing champion.
1962/--/-- 15 - television journalist walter cronkite is made anchorman of cbs evening news.
1962/--/-- 15 - the british pop group the beatles make their first recordings.
1962/--/-- 15 - the cuban missile crisis begins; soviet missiles are withdrawn from cuba.
1962/--/-- 15 - the mariner 2 spacecraft passes within 21,598 miles of venus.
1962/--/-- 15 - the u.s. supreme court rules that school prayers are a violation of the 1st amendment.
1962/--/-- 15 - the u.s. launches telstar, the first commercial communications satellite.
1962/--/-- 15 - the university of mississippi is forced to admit black student james meredith.
1962/10/-- 15 - world series nl san francisco (3) al new york (4)
1963/--/-- 16 - a un peace keeping force ends the secession attempt of katanga province (shaba).
1963/--/-- 16 - a limited nuclear test ban treaty is signed by britain, the u.s., and the ussr.
1963/--/-- 16 - american pop vocal group the beach boys release the record surfin' u.s.a.
1963/--/-- 16 - american writer mary mccarthy publishes the group.
1963/--/-- 16 - arecibo observatory begins observations with a 1,000-ft wide radio telescope.
1963/--/-- 16 - black nationalist joshua nkomo is imprisoned in rhodesia (now zimbabwe).
1963/--/-- 16 - britain's entry to the european economic community is blocked by france.
1963/--/-- 16 - british filmmaker joseph losey directs the servant.
1963/--/-- 16 - british spy harold (kim) philby defects to the ussr.
1963/--/-- 16 - czech dissident playwright vaclav havel writes the garden party.
1963/--/-- 16 - english writer john le carre publishes the spy who came in from the cold.
1963/--/-- 16 - filmmaker stanley kubrick directs the anti-war film dr. strangelove.
1963/--/-- 16 - football running back jim brown sets a record for rushes of 1,863 yards.
1963/--/-- 16 - jack nicklaus becomes the youngest golfer to win the masters tournament.
1963/--/-- 16 - john f. kennedy assassin lee harvey oswald is shot and killed by jack ruby.
1963/--/-- 16 - kennedy assassinated
1963/--/-- 16 - kenya gains independence from britain; jomo kenyatta becomes prime minister.
1963/--/-- 16 - levi eshkol succeeds david ben-gurion as prime minister of israel.
1963/--/-- 16 - ludwig erhard succeeds konrad adenauer as chancellor of west germany.
1963/--/-- 16 - lyndon b. johnson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1963/--/-- 16 - lyndon b. johnson is inaugurated as the 36th president of the u.s.
1963/--/-- 16 - malaya, singapore, sarawak and sabah form the federation of malaysia.
1963/--/-- 16 - martin luther king, jr. makes his "i have a dream" speech in washington, d.c.
1963/--/-- 16 - peter sellers stars as inspector clouseau in the film the pink panther.
1963/--/-- 16 - pop artist claes oldenburg creates the kapok-filled sculpture soft typewriter.
1963/--/-- 16 - pop artist roy lichtenstein completes the comic strip painting whaam.
1963/--/-- 16 - president kennedy is assassinated in dallas, texas.
1963/--/-- 16 - president ngo dinh diem of south vietnam is assassinated.
1963/--/-- 16 - race-car driver jim clark wins seven grand prix events and the world title.
1963/--/-- 16 - sir alec douglas-home succeeds harold macmillan as british prime minister.
1963/--/-- 16 - soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1963/--/-- 16 - sylvia plath's novel the bell jar is published in the year of her death.
1963/--/-- 16 - the american x-15 research aircraft establishes an altitude record of 67 miles.
1963/--/-- 16 - the organization of african unity (oau) is established in addis ababa, ethiopia.
1963/--/-- 16 - the profumo sex scandal undermines the conservative government in britain.
1963/--/-- 16 - the rolling stones rock band is formed in britain.
1963/--/-- 16 - the first james bond film dr. no is produced.
1963/10/-- 16 - world series nl los angeles (4) al new york (0)
1964/--/-- 17 - anc leader nelson mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment in south africa.
1964/--/-- 17 - an earthquake in alaska causes extensive damage and 114 fatalities.
1964/--/-- 17 - architect eero saarinen's st. louis arch memorial is completed.
1964/--/-- 17 - arno penzias and robert wilson discover the existence of background radiation.
1964/--/-- 17 - beatlemania develops during the first u.s. tour of the beatles pop group.
1964/--/-- 17 - black female group the supremes record the hit song where did our love go.
1964/--/-- 17 - britain grants independence to malawi; h. kamuzu banda becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 17 - britain grants independence to zambia; kenneth d. kaunda becomes president.
1964/--/-- 17 - britain grants independence to zanzibar.
1964/--/-- 17 - clint eastwood stars in sergio leone's "spaghetti western" a fistful of dollars.
1964/--/-- 17 - comedian lenny bruce is convicted for giving an obscene performance.
1964/--/-- 17 - craig breedlove sets a land speed record of 600 mph in a jet-powered vehicle.
1964/--/-- 17 - frelimo begins a war of independence against the portuguese in mozambique.
1964/--/-- 17 - faisal succeeds his brother saud as king of saudi arabia.
1964/--/-- 17 - fighting breaks out on cyprus between greek and turkish cypriots.
1964/--/-- 17 - general westmoreland is appointed to command the u.s. forces in south vietnam.
1964/--/-- 17 - gulf of tonkin incident
1964/--/-- 17 - gustavo diaz ordaz becomes president of mexico.
1964/--/-- 17 - ian smith becomes prime minister of rhodesia (now zimbabwe).
1964/--/-- 17 - illustrator maurice sendak wins a caldecott medal for where the wild things are.
1964/--/-- 17 - indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru dies; he is succeeded by lal bahadur shastri.
1964/--/-- 17 - johnson is reeelected as u.s. president; humphrey becomes vice-president (1965).
1964/--/-- 17 - julie andrews and dick van dyke star in the film mary poppins.
1964/--/-- 17 - muhammad ali defeats sonny liston for the heavyweight boxing championship.
1964/--/-- 17 - north vietnam allegedly attacks u.s. vessels in the gulf of tonkin.
1964/--/-- 17 - peter weiss' play marat/ sade is produced by british director peter brook.
1964/--/-- 17 - physicists murray gell-mann and george zweig propose the quark theory.
1964/--/-- 17 - soviet leader nikitakhrushchev is forced from office; aleksei kosygin becomes premier.
1964/--/-- 17 - tanganyika joins with zanzibar to form the united republic of tanzania.
1964/--/-- 17 - the american ranger 7 spacecraft transmits photos of the surface of the moon.
1964/--/-- 17 - the labour party is elected to power in britain; harold wilson becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 17 - the palestine liberation organization (plo) is formed to represent palestinians.
1964/--/-- 17 - the sr-71 blackbird reconnaissance aircraft is flown for the first time.
1964/--/-- 17 - the soviet voskhod 1 spacecraft is launched with a three-man crew.
1964/--/-- 17 - the tonkin gulf resolution escalates the use of u.s. personnel in vietnam.
1964/--/-- 17 - the u.s. civil rights act prohibits discrimination in employment.
1964/--/-- 17 - the u.s. surgeon general reports that cigarette smoking is a health hazard.
1964/--/-- 17 - the verrazano-narrows bridge opens in new york.
1964/--/-- 17 - the warren commission decides that oswald was the sole assassin of john f. kennedy.
1964/10/-- 17 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (3)
1965/--/-- 18 - actress and singer barbara streisand stars in the broadway musical funny girl.
1965/--/-- 18 - american pop artist james rosenquist paints f-111.
1965/--/-- 18 - american writer norman mailer publishes an american dream.
1965/--/-- 18 - an attempted communist coup leads to military rule in indonesia under suharto.
1965/--/-- 18 - an electrical blackout in the northeastern u.s. affects 30 million people.
1965/--/-- 18 - astronaut edward h. white becomes the first american to walk in space.
1965/--/-- 18 - astronauts virgil grissom and john young orbit the earth in the first gemini spacecraft.
1965/--/-- 18 - bob dylan "like a rolling stone"
1965/--/-- 18 - british fashion designer mary quant introduces the miniskirt.
1965/--/-- 18 - civil war breaks out in the dominican republic; u.s. troops restore order.
1965/--/-- 18 - demonstrations against vietnam war
1965/--/-- 18 - gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft make the first rendezvous in space.
1965/--/-- 18 - houari boumedienne deposes president ahmed ben bella of algeria.
1965/--/-- 18 - irish writer edna o'brien publishes august is a wicked month.
1965/--/-- 18 - martin luther king, jr. leads a civil rights march from selma to montgomery, alabama.
1965/--/-- 18 - mobutu sese seko seizes control in the congo (zaire) for the second time.
1965/--/-- 18 - more than 180,000 u.s. troops are deployed in vietnam by the end of the year.
1965/--/-- 18 - neil simon's play the odd couple opens on broadway starring walter matthau.
1965/--/-- 18 - nicolae ceausescu succeeds gheorghe gheorghiu-dej as romanian leader.
1965/--/-- 18 - north vietnamese army units are in action in south vietnam for the first time.
1965/--/-- 18 - race riots begin in the watts section of los angeles.
1965/--/-- 18 - rhodesia (zimbabwe) makes a unilateral declaration of independence from britain.
1965/--/-- 18 - singapore secedes from malaysia; lee kuan yew remains as prime minister.
1965/--/-- 18 - soviet cosmonaut aleksei leonov makes the first space walk.
1965/--/-- 18 - the black muslim leader malcolm x is assassinated in new york city.
1965/--/-- 18 - the houston astrodome, the first covered stadium, is completed in texas.
1965/--/-- 18 - the mariner 4 spacecraft passes within 6,118 miles of the planet mars.
1965/--/-- 18 - the second india-pakistan war begins in kashmir.
1965/--/-- 18 - the u.s. government establishes medicare and medicaid health programs.
1965/--/-- 18 - the vietnam war escalates as the u.s. begins bombing north vietnam.
1965/10/-- 18 - world series nl los angeles (4) al minnesota (3)
1966/--/-- 19 - american writer bernard malamud publishes the fixer.
1966/--/-- 19 - american writer truman capote publishes in cold blood.
1966/--/-- 19 - art treasures are ruined during severe floods in florence, italy.
1966/--/-- 19 - gen. yakubu gowon heads a military government after a countercoup in nigeria.
1966/--/-- 19 - hippie movement
1966/--/-- 19 - indian prime minister lal bahadur shastri dies; he is succeeded by indira gandhi.
1966/--/-- 19 - john jack lynch becomes prime minister of ireland.
1966/--/-- 19 - john v. lindsay becomes mayor of new york city.
1966/--/-- 19 - mao tse-tung begins china's cultural revolution.
1966/--/-- 19 - nigerian prime minister abubakar tafawa balewa is killed in a military coup.
1966/--/-- 19 - president de gaulle withdraws french forces from nato.
1966/--/-- 19 - president kwame nkrumah is ousted in a military coup in ghana.
1966/--/-- 19 - realist sculptor george segal completes the direct-cast plaster group the diner.
1966/--/-- 19 - south african prime minister hendrik verwoerd is assassinated.
1966/--/-- 19 - the american surveyor 1 spacecraft achieves the first soft-landing on the moon.
1966/--/-- 19 - the british hawker harrier becomes the first vtol (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft.
1966/--/-- 19 - the soviet luna 9 space probe makes the first landing on the moon.
1966/--/-- 19 - the soviets mediate to end the india-pakistan war.
1966/--/-- 19 - the first major rally against the vietnam war takes place in washington, d.c.
1966/--/-- 19 - tom stoppard's play rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is produced.
1966/10/-- 19 - world series nl los angeles (0) al baltimore (4)
1967/--/-- 20 - a civil war breaks out in nigeria after the secession of the state of biafra.
1967/--/-- 20 - a fire kills u.s. astronauts white, grissom and chaffee during a launch test.
1967/--/-- 20 - a military junta seizes control in greece; king constantine ii is exiled.
1967/--/-- 20 - american writer joyce carol oates publishes a garden of earthly delights.
1967/--/-- 20 - britain grants aden independence as the people's democratic republic of yemen.
1967/--/-- 20 - colombian writer gabriel garcia marquez publishes one hundred years of solitude.
1967/--/-- 20 - dr. christiaan barnard performs the first successful human heart transplant.
1967/--/-- 20 - dustin hoffman stars in mike nichols' film the graduate.
1967/--/-- 20 - gen. anastasio somoza debayle is elected president of nicaragua.
1967/--/-- 20 - israeli 6-day war
1967/--/-- 20 - latin american guerrilla leader che guevara is killed in bolivia.
1967/--/-- 20 - nguyen van thieu becomes president of south vietnam.
1967/--/-- 20 - peter fonda and dennis hopper star in the motorcycle film easy rider.
1967/--/-- 20 - quarterback joe namath sets a one-season record by passing for 4,007 yards.
1967/--/-- 20 - r. buckminster fuller designs a geodesic dome for the u.s. pavilion at expo '67.
1967/--/-- 20 - radio astronomers jocelyn bell burnell and antony hewish discover the first pulsar.
1967/--/-- 20 - sidney poitier and rod steiger star in the film in the heat of the night.
1967/--/-- 20 - soviet cosmonaut vladimir komarov is killed during the landing of soyuz 1.
1967/--/-- 20 - tennis player billie jean king wins the u.s. open championship for the first time.
1967/--/-- 20 - the beatles "sgt. pepper"
1967/--/-- 20 - the north american soccer league (nasl) is formed.
1967/--/-- 20 - the six-day war between israel and the arab states ends with israeli victory.
1967/--/-- 20 - the x-15 research aircraft establishes a speed record of mach 6.7 (4,520 mph).
1967/--/-- 20 - the hippie musical revue hair is produced.
1967/--/-- 20 - the residents of gibraltar vote to remain a british crown colony.
1967/--/-- 20 - thurgood marshall becomes the first black member of the u.s. supreme court.
1967/--/-- 20 - warren beaty and faye dunaway star in arthur penn's film bonnie and clyde.
1967/--/-- 20 - yachtsman francis chichester completes the first solo voyage around the world.
1967/10/-- 20 - world series nl st. louis (4) al boston (3)
1968/--/-- 21 - american skater peggy fleming wins the singles title at the winter olympic games.
1968/--/-- 21 - american track star bob beamon beats the olympic long jump record by almost 2 feet.
1968/--/-- 21 - american writer tom wolfe publishes the electric kool-aid acid test.
1968/--/-- 21 - anti-war demonstrators clash with police at the democratic convention in chicago.
1968/--/-- 21 - arthur ashe becomes the first black player to win a major men's tennis title.
1968/--/-- 21 - carlos castaneda publishes the teachings of don juan: a yaqui way of knowledge.
1968/--/-- 21 - civil rights leader martin luther king, jr. is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 21 - dick fosbury uses the fosbury flop to win the olympic gold medal for the high jump.
1968/--/-- 21 - filmmaker mel brooks directs, produces and appears in the producers.
1968/--/-- 21 - filmmaker stanley kubrick directs 2001: a space odyssey.
1968/--/-- 21 - french downhill skier jean claude killy wins three olympic gold medals.
1968/--/-- 21 - french filmmaker henri costa-gavras directs z.
1968/--/-- 21 - jacqueline kennedy marries the greek shipping millionaire aristotle onassis.
1968/--/-- 21 - kubrick "2001"
1968/--/-- 21 - may days mini-revolution
1968/--/-- 21 - more than 500,000 u.s. troops are deployed in vietnam.
1968/--/-- 21 - oceanographic ship glomar challenger begins the deep-sea drilling project.
1968/--/-- 21 - omar torrijos herrera overthrows the government of arnulfo arias in panama.
1968/--/-- 21 - pierre trudeau succeeds lester pearson as prime minister of canada.
1968/--/-- 21 - polish filmmaker roman polanski directs rosemary's baby.
1968/--/-- 21 - portuguese dictator antonio de oliveira salazar is succeeded by marcello caetano.
1968/--/-- 21 - president johnson announces he will not seek a second term of office.
1968/--/-- 21 - presidential candidate robert f. kennedy is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 21 - spain grants independence to equatorial guinea.
1968/--/-- 21 - spanish operatic tenor placido domingo debuts at the metropolitan opera.
1968/--/-- 21 - student-worker revolts almost topple the goverment of charles de gaulle in france.
1968/--/-- 21 - the apollo 8 spacecraft makes the first manned orbit of the moon.
1968/--/-- 21 - the catholic minority in northern ireland demonstrate for british rights.
1968/--/-- 21 - the federal gun control act regulates the interstate commerce in firearms.
1968/--/-- 21 - the saturn rocket lifts the apollo 7 spacecraft into low earth orbit.
1968/--/-- 21 - the u.s. navy intelligence gathering ship pueblo is seized by north korea.
1968/--/-- 21 - the viet cong launch the tet offensive in vietnam.
1968/--/-- 21 - u.s. troops massacre vietnamese civilians at my lai.
1968/--/-- 21 - vietnam war begins
1968/--/-- 21 - warsaw pact forces invade czechoslovakia to counter increasing liberalization.
1968/10/-- 21 - world series nl st. louis (3) al detroit (4)
1969/--/-- 22 - a rock-music festival at woodstock, n.y, attracts a crowd of 500,000.
1969/--/-- 22 - american astronauts neil armstrong and buzz aldrin land on the moon.
1969/--/-- 22 - american writer kurt vonnegut, jr. publishes slaughterhouse-five.
1969/--/-- 22 - australian rod laver becomes the only tennis player to win the grand slam twice.
1969/--/-- 22 - british filmmaker ken russell directs glenda jackson in women in love.
1969/--/-- 22 - british writer john fowles publishes the french lieutenant's woman.
1969/--/-- 22 - catholics and protestants clash in northern ireland; british troops restore order.
1969/--/-- 22 - charles manson and his followers kill actress sharon tate and six of her friends.
1969/--/-- 22 - col. muammar al-qaddafi seizes control in libya; king idris is deposed.
1969/--/-- 22 - dustin hoffman and jon voight star in john schlesinger's film midnight cowboy.
1969/--/-- 22 - edward kennedy's female companion dies in a car accident off the chappaquiddick bridge.
1969/--/-- 22 - gen. gaafar al-nimeiry seizes power in sudan.
1969/--/-- 22 - general de gaulle resigns; georges pompidou becomes president of france.
1969/--/-- 22 - golda meir becomes prime minister of israel after the death of levi eshkol.
1969/--/-- 22 - ira provisionals launch a terrorist campaign against british troops in ireland.
1969/--/-- 22 - liberal czech leader alexander dubcek is replaced by gustav husak.
1969/--/-- 22 - nixon is inaugurated as the 37th u.s. president; agnew becomes vice-president.
1969/--/-- 22 - nudity shocks audiences in kenneth tynan's broadway revue oh! calcutta!.
1969/--/-- 22 - paul newman and robert redford star in butch cassidy and the sundance kid.
1969/--/-- 22 - president ayub khan is deposed by gen. muhammad yahya khan in pakistan.
1969/--/-- 22 - president nixon begins to withdraw u.s. forces from vietnam.
1969/--/-- 22 - richard m. nixon (republican) becomes president of the united states
1969/--/-- 22 - the anglo-french supersonic transport concorde makes its first flight.
1969/--/-- 22 - the children's television workshop series sesame street is first shown.
1969/--/-- 22 - the monty python's flying circus television program premiers in britain.
1969/--/-- 22 - the immigration of salvadorans into honduras leads to a brief border war.
1969/--/-- 22 - willy brandt succeeds kurt kiesinger as chancellor of west germany.
1969/--/-- 22 - yasir arafat becomes chairman of the palestine liberation organization (plo).
1969/05/31 22 *** thompson, gayle (dalton) & dalton, steve [husband] - married
1969/10/-- 22 - world series nl new york (4) al baltimore (1)
1970/--/-- 23 - american writer maya angelou publishes i know why the caged bird sings.
1970/--/-- 23 - australian tennis player margaret smith court wins the grand slam.
1970/--/-- 23 - britain grants independence to fiji.
1970/--/-- 23 - bruno kreisky succeeds josef klaus as chancellor of austria.
1970/--/-- 23 - cartoonist garry trudeau begins satirizing public figures and politics in doonesbury.
1970/--/-- 23 - civil war begins in jordan between government forces and palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 23 - civil war begins in jordan between government forces and palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 23 - donald sutherland stars in robert altman's anti-war film m*a*s*h.
1970/--/-- 23 - epa established to enforce clean air act
1970/--/-- 23 - edward heath becomes conservative prime minister of britain.
1970/--/-- 23 - egyptian president gamal abdel nasser dies; he is succeeded by anwar al-sadat.
1970/--/-- 23 - former defense minister hafez al-assad seizes power in syria.
1970/--/-- 23 - french filmmaker eric rohmer directs claire's knee.
1970/--/-- 23 - george c. scott stars in the academy award winning film patton.
1970/--/-- 23 - marxist leader salvadore allende is elected president of chile.
1970/--/-- 23 - norman borlaug wins the nobel peace prize for breeding miracle wheat strains.
1970/--/-- 23 - ohio national guardsmen kill four kent state students during an anti-war protest.
1970/--/-- 23 - president nixon orders an incursion into cambodia to combat the khmer rouge.
1970/--/-- 23 - riots in poland force wladyslaw gomulka to resign in favor of edward gierek.
1970/--/-- 23 - rock music guitarist jimi hendrix dies from a drug overdose.
1970/--/-- 23 - sihanouk is deposed in cambodia; khmer rouge seize the western provinces.
1970/--/-- 23 - sixties energy wins smaller battles: feminism, ecology...
1970/--/-- 23 - songwriting duo simon and garfunkel record bridge over troubled water.
1970/--/-- 23 - the amtrak intercity rail passenger service is created by act of congress.
1970/--/-- 23 - the apollo 13 crew return to earth after an explosion aboard their command module.
1970/--/-- 23 - the beatles pop group is disbanded.
1970/--/-- 23 - the boeing 747 jumbo jet airliner enters service.
1970/--/-- 23 - the environmental protection agency (epa) is established in the u.s.
1970/--/-- 23 - the soviet space probe venera 7 transmits the first data from the surface of venus.
1970/--/-- 23 - the building of the aswan high dam is completed in egypt.
1970/--/-- 23 - the civil war ends between nigeria and the breakaway state of biafra.
1970/--/-- 23 - u.s. invades cambodia
1970/--/-- 23 - writer and feminist germaine greer publishes the female eunuch.
1970/10/-- 23 - world series nl cincinnati (1) al baltimore (4)
1971/--/-- 24 *** dalton, sam [son] - born to dalton, steve and thompson, gayle (dalton)
1971/--/-- 24 - alistair cooke begins hosting the pbs television series masterpiece theatre.
1971/--/-- 24 - american film actor and director clint eastwood stars in dirty harry.
1971/--/-- 24 - andrew lloyd webber's rock-opera jesus christ superstar opens on broadway.
1971/--/-- 24 - austrian kurt waldheim succeeds u thant as un secretary general.
1971/--/-- 24 - british actor dirk bogard stars in luchino visconti's film death in venice.
1971/--/-- 24 - chilean poet pablo neruda wins the nobel prize for literature.
1971/--/-- 24 - col. hugo banzer suarez seizes power in bolivia in a military coup.
1971/--/-- 24 - daniel ellsberg releases copies of the pentagon papers to the new york times.
1971/--/-- 24 - east pakistan declares its independence from west pakistan, beginning a civil war.
1971/--/-- 24 - erich honecker becomes the head of state for east germany.
1971/--/-- 24 - ice hockey player phil esposito scores a record 76 goals in 78 games.
1971/--/-- 24 - jean claude duvalier succeeds his father as president of haiti.
1971/--/-- 24 - joe frazier defeats muhammad ali for the heavyweight boxing title.
1971/--/-- 24 - lt. william calley is found guilty of killing vietnamese civilians at my lai.
1971/--/-- 24 - prime minister brian faulkner begins the internment of ira suspects in northern ireland.
1971/--/-- 24 - prime minister milton obote is ousted by idi amin dada in uganda.
1971/--/-- 24 - south vietnamese troops and u.s. aircraft combat communist forces in laos.
1971/--/-- 24 - soviet "salyut 1" space station
1971/--/-- 24 - soyuz 11 docks with salyut 1; three cosmonauts die during the return to earth.
1971/--/-- 24 - the congo is renamed as the republic of zaire.
1971/--/-- 24 - the lunar rover explores the moon's surface during the apollo 15 mission.
1971/--/-- 24 - the republic of china (taiwan) loses its un seat; communist china is admitted.
1971/--/-- 24 - the support of india wins independence for east pakistan (renamed as bangladesh).
1971/10/-- 24 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al baltimore (3)
1972/--/-- 25 - alabama governor george wallace is shot in an assassination attempt.
1972/--/-- 25 - american b-52 aircraft bomb hanoi and haiphong in north vietnam.
1972/--/-- 25 - american bobby fischer defeats russian world chess champion boris spassky.
1972/--/-- 25 - american feminist gloria steinem founds ms. magazine.
1972/--/-- 25 - american swimmer mark spitz wins a record seven olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 25 - an earthquake kills 10,000 in the nicaraguan capital of managua.
1972/--/-- 25 - apollo 17 makes the last manned moon landing.
1972/--/-- 25 - ceylon changes its name to sri lanka (meaning beautiful island).
1972/--/-- 25 - ddt insecticide is banned in the u.s.
1972/--/-- 25 - ddt is banned
1972/--/-- 25 - filmmaker francis ford coppola directs marlon brando in the godfather.
1972/--/-- 25 - german writer heinrich boll receives the nobel prize for literature.
1972/--/-- 25 - japanese novelist kawabata yasunari commits suicide.
1972/--/-- 25 - liza minnelli stars in bob fosse's film cabaret.
1972/--/-- 25 - marlon brando stars in bernardo bertolucci's film last tango in paris.
1972/--/-- 25 - mujibur rahman becomes prime minister of bangladesh.
1972/--/-- 25 - palestinian terrorists kill 11 israeli athletes at the munich olympics.
1972/--/-- 25 - president ferdinand marcos imposes martial law in the philippines.
1972/--/-- 25 - president nixon authorizes the space shuttle program.
1972/--/-- 25 - president nixon makes his historic trip to peking to meet mao tse-tung.
1972/--/-- 25 - richard leakey discovers a hominid skull 2.6 million years old in northern kenya.
1972/--/-- 25 - soviet gymnast olga korbut wins three olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 25 - the british government assumes direct rule of northern ireland.
1972/--/-- 25 - the labor party is elected in australia with gough whitlam as prime minister.
1972/--/-- 25 - the viet cong and north vietnamese renew their offensive in south vietnam.
1972/--/-- 25 - the watergate affair begins with the arrest of five burglars at democratic party headquarters.
1972/10/-- 25 - world series nl cincinnati (3) al oakland (4)
1973/--/-- 26 - a right-wing military coup in chile overthrows allende's marxist government.
1973/--/-- 26 - aleksandr solzhenitsyn publishes the first volume of the gulag archipelago.
1973/--/-- 26 - american novelist thomas pynchon publishes gravity's rainbow.
1973/--/-- 26 - american playwright thornton wilder publishes the novel theophilus north.
1973/--/-- 26 - animal behavioralists lorenz, tinbergen and von frisch share the nobel prize.
1973/--/-- 26 - billy friedkin "the exorcist"
1973/--/-- 26 - britain grants independence to the bahama islands.
1973/--/-- 26 - charles xvi gustav succeeds gustav vi adolf as king of sweden.
1973/--/-- 26 - congress passes the endangered species act.
1973/--/-- 26 - egypt and syria attack israel on yom kippur (a jewish religious holiday).
1973/--/-- 26 - endangered species act
1973/--/-- 26 - film actor al pacino stars as an undercover policeman in serpico.
1973/--/-- 26 - great britain, denmark and ireland become full-fledged members of the eec.
1973/--/-- 26 - henry kissinger and le duc tho share the nobel peace prize.
1973/--/-- 26 - juan d. peron returns to power as president of argentina.
1973/--/-- 26 - nixon resigns over watergate
1973/--/-- 26 - novelist, poet, and feminist erica jong publishes fear of flying.
1973/--/-- 26 - opec begins an oil embargo against europe, the u.s. and japan.
1973/--/-- 26 - pop recording artist billy joel releases his first album piano man.
1973/--/-- 26 - senator sam ervin, jr. heads a committee to investigate the watergate break-in.
1973/--/-- 26 - solzhenitsyn "gulag archipelago"
1973/--/-- 26 - swedish actor max von sydow stars in the supernatural film the exorcist.
1973/--/-- 26 - the american indian movement occupy the site of wounded knee in a political protest.
1973/--/-- 26 - the arab-israeli war ends after 18 days with a un negotiated cease-fire.
1973/--/-- 26 - the paris peace accords end the vietnam war.
1973/--/-- 26 - the pioneer 10 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet jupiter.
1973/--/-- 26 - the skylab manned orbiting laboratory is launched.
1973/--/-- 26 - the u.s. begins a total military withdrawal from south vietnam.
1973/--/-- 26 - the washington post receives the pulitzer prize for reporting the watergate scandal.
1973/--/-- 26 - the world trade center in new york city becomes the tallest building in the world.
1973/--/-- 26 - vice-president spiro agnew resigns after he is charged with accepting bribes.
1973/--/-- 26 - vietnam war ends
1973/--/-- 26 - war powers act
1973/--/-- 26 - watergate prosecutor archibald cox is dismissed for demanding the nixon tapes.
1973/10/-- 26 - world series nl new york (3) al oakland (4)
1974/--/-- 27 - a military coup in portugal leads to democratic reforms.
1974/--/-- 27 - american tennis player chris evert wins a record 56 consecutive matches.
1974/--/-- 27 - american tennis player jimmy connors wins the u.s. open tournament for the first time.
1974/--/-- 27 - american writer stephen king publishes the horror novel carrie.
1974/--/-- 27 - an army of life-size pottery figures is discovered in a ch'in dynasty tomb in china.
1974/--/-- 27 - archbishop makarios is deposed, prompting a turkish invasion of cyprus.
1974/--/-- 27 - baseball player hank aaron breaks babe ruth's record of 714 home-runs.
1974/--/-- 27 - emperor haile selassie is deposed in a military coup in ethiopia.
1974/--/-- 27 - former astronaut john glenn is elected to the u.s. senate.
1974/--/-- 27 - general augusto pinochet ugarte becomes president of chile.
1974/--/-- 27 - gerald r. ford (republican) becomes president of the united states
1974/--/-- 27 - helmut schmidt becomes chancellor of west germany.
1974/--/-- 27 - isabel peron becomes president of argentina after the death of her husband.
1974/--/-- 27 - james michener publishes centennial, a historical novel of the american west.
1974/--/-- 27 - konstantinos g. karamanlis becomes prime minister of greece.
1974/--/-- 27 - patricia hearst is abducted by members of the symbionese liberation army (sla).
1974/--/-- 27 - portugal recognizes the independence of guinea-bissau.
1974/--/-- 27 - president ford grants richard nixon a pardon for any crimes committed in office.
1974/--/-- 27 - president giscard d'estaing appoints jacques chirac prime minister of france.
1974/--/-- 27 - president nixon resigns; gerald r. ford is inaugurated as the 38th u.s. president.
1974/--/-- 27 - reiner werner fassbinder "ali-- fear eats the soul"
1974/--/-- 27 - south african golfer gary player achieves the grand slam.
1974/--/-- 27 - soviet ballet dancer mikhail baryshnikov defects to the west.
1974/--/-- 27 - the house judiciary committee votes to impeach president nixon.
1974/--/-- 27 - the mariner 10 spacecraft passes within 438 miles of the planet mercury.
1974/--/-- 27 - the sears tower in chicago surpasses the world trade center as the tallest building.
1974/--/-- 27 - the crisis on cyprus causes the collapse of the military regime in greece.
1974/--/-- 27 - willy brandt is forced to resign after an east german spy is discovered on his staff.
1974/--/-- 27 - yitzhak rabin succeeds golda meir as prime minister of israel.
1974/10/-- 27 - world series nl los angeles (1) al oakland (4)
1975/--/-- 28 - american novelist saul bellow publishes humboldt's gift.
1975/--/-- 28 - american writer e.l. doctorow publishes ragtime.
1975/--/-- 28 - bobby fischer refuses to defend his chess title; anatoly karpov is made champion.
1975/--/-- 28 - brazilian soccer star pele ends his retirement to play for the new york cosmos.
1975/--/-- 28 - civil war breaks out after the portuguese withdraw from angola.
1975/--/-- 28 - civil war breaks out in lebanon between muslim and christian forces.
1975/--/-- 28 - communist pathet lao declare laos the people's democratic republic.
1975/--/-- 28 - cyprus is partitioned into greek and turkish zones.
1975/--/-- 28 - czech tennis star martina navratilova defects to the u.s.
1975/--/-- 28 - dutch guiana gains its independence as the republic of suriname.
1975/--/-- 28 - eritrean rebels begin their fight for independence in ethiopia.
1975/--/-- 28 - football player o.j. simpson scores a record 23 touchdowns in one season.
1975/--/-- 28 - gen. yakubu gowon is deposed in a military coup in nigeria.
1975/--/-- 28 - juan carlos i becomes king of spain after the death of general francisco franco.
1975/--/-- 28 - michael bennett directs and choreographs the broadway musical a chorus line.
1975/--/-- 28 - mozambique wins independence from portugal; samora machel becomes the president.
1975/--/-- 28 - north vietnamese forces overrun saigon, which is renamed as ho chi minh city.
1975/--/-- 28 - papua new guinea becomes independent from australian administration.
1975/--/-- 28 - president mujibur rahman is killed in a military coup in bangladesh.
1975/--/-- 28 - president n'garta tombalbaye of chad is killed in a coup d'etat.
1975/--/-- 28 - prime minister pol pot begins a reign of terror in kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 28 - robert macneil and jim lehrer begin the pbs macneil/lehrer news analysis program.
1975/--/-- 28 - saudi king faisal is assassinated; he is succeeded by his brother khalid.
1975/--/-- 28 - singer-songwriter bruce springsteen releases the rock album born to run.
1975/--/-- 28 - south vietnam capitulates; a mass exodus of boat people begins.
1975/--/-- 28 - south vietnam surrenders to north vietnam
1975/--/-- 28 - soviet dissident andrei sakharov wins the nobel peace prize.
1975/--/-- 28 - steven spielberg's film jaws sets new box-office records.
1975/--/-- 28 - taiwanese leader chiang kai-shek dies; he is succeeded by chiang ching-kuo.
1975/--/-- 28 - the helsinki accords pledge the signatory nations to respect human rights.
1975/--/-- 28 - the khmer rouge win control of cambodia and rename the country kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 28 - the republic of comoros declares its independence from france.
1975/--/-- 28 - the suez canal reopens after being closed to shipping for eight years.
1975/--/-- 28 - u.s. marines recapture the u.s. freighter mayaguez from kampuchean forces.
1975/--/-- 28 - u.s. astronauts and soviet cosmonauts linkup during the apollo-soyuz mission.
1975/10/-- 28 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al boston (3)
1976/--/-- 29 - a severe earthquake in china kills over 600,000.
1976/--/-- 29 - actor jack nicholson wins the academy award for one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
1976/--/-- 29 - artist christo completes running fence, a curtain spanning 24 miles of countryside.
1976/--/-- 29 - black american writer alex haley publishes roots: the saga of an american family.
1976/--/-- 29 - black student protestors are massacred at soweto in south africa.
1976/--/-- 29 - chinese leaders chou en-lai and mao tse-tung die; hua kuo-feng assumes power.
1976/--/-- 29 - finnish runner lasse viren wins the olympic 5,000- and 10,000-m races for the second time.
1976/--/-- 29 - isabel peron is deposed; jorge rafael videla becomes president of argentina.
1976/--/-- 29 - israeli commandos rescue hijacked airplane passengers at entebbe, uganda.
1976/--/-- 29 - james callaghan succeeds harold wilson as prime minister of britain.
1976/--/-- 29 - jim henson's muppet show debuts on television.
1976/--/-- 29 - jose lopez portillo y pacheco is elected president of mexico.
1976/--/-- 29 - mario soares is elected prime minister of portugal for the first time.
1976/--/-- 29 - robert de niro stars in martin scorcese's film taxi driver.
1976/--/-- 29 - romanian gymnast nadia comaneci wins three gold medals at the montreal olympics.
1976/--/-- 29 - separatist leader rene levesque becomes premier of quebec.
1976/--/-- 29 - suarez gonzalez becomes prime minister of spain after the first election in 41 years.
1976/--/-- 29 - swedish tennis star bjorn borg wins the first of five wimbledon championships.
1976/--/-- 29 - sylvester stallone's film rocky wins the academy award as best picture.
1976/--/-- 29 - the sex pistols punk rock group is formed in england.
1976/--/-- 29 - the south african homeland of transkei becomes independent.
1976/--/-- 29 - the u.s. celebrates its bicentennial.
1976/--/-- 29 - the first outbreak of legionnaires' disease occurs in philadelphia.
1976/--/-- 29 - the pro-soviet mpla government seizes power in angola aided by cuban troops.
1976/--/-- 29 - u.s. viking spacecraft land on mars.
1976/--/-- 29 - viking 1 & 2 land on mars
1976/10/-- 29 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al new york (0)
1977/--/-- 30 - american golfer tom watson wins the masters and british open tournaments.
1977/--/-- 30 - american hurdler edwin moses begins a winning streak of 90 consecutive races.
1977/--/-- 30 - american poet and novelist wendell berry, publishes the unsettling of america.
1977/--/-- 30 - black politician andrew young is appointed as u.s. ambassador to the un.
1977/--/-- 30 - carter is inaugurated as the 39th u.s. president; mondale becomes vice-presicent.
1977/--/-- 30 - comedian and filmmaker woody allen directs diane keaton in annie hall.
1977/--/-- 30 - edward (ed) koch becomes mayor of new york city for the first time.
1977/--/-- 30 - general zia ul-haq deposes prime minister zulfikar ali bhutto in pakistan.
1977/--/-- 30 - george lucas "star wars"
1977/--/-- 30 - george lucas directs the first star wars space fantasy film.
1977/--/-- 30 - james e. carter, jr. (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1977/--/-- 30 - jean bedel bokassa is crowned emperor bokassa i of the central african empire.
1977/--/-- 30 - john travolta stars in the disco film saturday night fever.
1977/--/-- 30 - menachem begin succeeds yitzhak rabin as prime minister of israel.
1977/--/-- 30 - morarji randchhadji desai succeeds indira gandhi as prime minister of india.
1977/--/-- 30 - rock 'n roll performer elvis presley dies.
1977/--/-- 30 - seveteen-year old american jockey steve cauthen rides a record 487 winners.
1977/--/-- 30 - south africa grants independence to the african homeland of bophuthatswana.
1977/--/-- 30 - the fianna fail party returns to power under john lynch in the republic of ireland.
1977/--/-- 30 - the french territory of the afars and the issas becomes independent as djibouti.
1977/--/-- 30 - the first apple ii personal computer is marketed in the u.s.
1977/10/-- 30 - world series nl los angeles (2) al new york (4)
1978/--/-- 31 - afghanistan president mohammad daud khan is killed in a marxist coup.
1978/--/-- 31 - american auto racer mario andretti wins the formula one grand prix championship.
1978/--/-- 31 - american golfer nancy lopez wins a record five straight tournaments.
1978/--/-- 31 - american writer john irving publishes the world according to garp.
1978/--/-- 31 - antonio guzman becomes president of the dominican republic.
1978/--/-- 31 - boxer larry holmes defeats ken norton for the heavyweight championship.
1978/--/-- 31 - britain grants independence to tuvalu, dominica, and the solomon islands.
1978/--/-- 31 - italian politician aldo moro is kidnapped and murdered by red brigade terrorists.
1978/--/-- 31 - jerry falwell founds the moral majority
1978/--/-- 31 - michael cimino directs the controversial vietnam war film the deer hunter.
1978/--/-- 31 - more than 900 members of a religious cult commit suicide at jonestown, guyana.
1978/--/-- 31 - pieter willem botha becomes prime minister of south africa.
1978/--/-- 31 - pope john paul ii becomes the first non-italian pope in more than 500 years.
1978/--/-- 31 - president carter oversees the camp david peace accords between egypt and israel.
1978/--/-- 31 - punk rock
1978/--/-- 31 - the pompidou center art museum (the beaubourg) is opened in paris.
1978/--/-- 31 - the united states and panama renew the panama canal treaties.
1978/--/-- 31 - the balloon double eagle ii completes the first atlantic crossing.
1978/--/-- 31 - the first human test-tube baby is born in england.
1978/--/-- 31 - the murder of opposition leader pedro joaquin chamorro sparks uprisings in nicaragua.
1978/--/-- 31 - yiddish-language writer isaac bashevis singer wins the nobel prize for literature.
1978/--/-- 31 - personal computer
1978/10/-- 31 - world series nl los angeles (2) al new york (4)
1979/--/-- 32 - abel muzorewa becomes the first black prime minister of rhodesia (zimbabwe).
1979/--/-- 32 - algerian president houari boumedienne dies; he is succeeded by chadli benjedid.
1979/--/-- 32 - algerian president houari boumedienne dies; he is succeeded by chadli benjedid.
1979/--/-- 32 - american novelist william styron publishes sophie's choice.
1979/--/-- 32 - american tennis player john mcenroe wins his first u.s. open championship.
1979/--/-- 32 - american tennis player tracy austin wins the u.s. open championship at age 16.
1979/--/-- 32 - an accident at the three mile island nuclear power plant causes a near-disaster.
1979/--/-- 32 - andrew lloyd webber's musical evita opens on broadway.
1979/--/-- 32 - british runner sebastian coe sets world records at 800 m, 1,500 m, and the mile.
1979/--/-- 32 - charles haughey succeeds john lynch as president of the republic of ireland.
1979/--/-- 32 - dutch soccer star johan cruyff plays for the l.a. aztecs.
1979/--/-- 32 - ex-prime minister zulfikar ali bhutto is executed in pakistan.
1979/--/-- 32 - francis ford coppola directs the vietnam war film apocalypse now.
1979/--/-- 32 - francis ford coppola directs the vietnam war film apocalypse now.
1979/--/-- 32 - gen. saddam hussein succeeds gen. al-bakr as president of iraq.
1979/--/-- 32 - ira terrorists assassinate lord mountbatten in ireland.
1979/--/-- 32 - islamic fundamentalist ayatollah ruhollah khomeini returns to iran.
1979/--/-- 32 - jean bedel bokassa is deposed in the central african republic.
1979/--/-- 32 - jose eduardo dos santos succeeds agostinho neto as president of angola.
1979/--/-- 32 - margaret thatcher becomes britain's first woman prime minister.
1979/--/-- 32 - morocco annexes western sahara; the polisario front fight for independence.
1979/--/-- 32 - mother teresa of calcutta is awarded the nobel peace prize.
1979/--/-- 32 - pioneer 11 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet saturn.
1979/--/-- 32 - quarterback roger staubach leads nfl passing, completing 267 out of 461 passes.
1979/--/-- 32 - revolution in iran; americans held hostage
1979/--/-- 32 - shehu shagari becomes president of nigeria.
1979/--/-- 32 - sixty-six u.s. embassy employees are taken hostage by iranian students in tehran.
1979/--/-- 32 - south korean president park chung hee is assassinated.
1979/--/-- 32 - soviet troops occupy afghanistan in support of babrak karmal's marxist regime.
1979/--/-- 32 - soviets lose war in afganistan
1979/--/-- 32 - tanzanians and ugandan exiles invade uganda; dictator idi amin dada flees.
1979/--/-- 32 - the gossamer albatross flies across the english channel under human-power.
1979/--/-- 32 - the mujaheddin begin a guerrilla war against the soviet forces in afghanistan.
1979/--/-- 32 - the sandinistas seize control in nicaragua.
1979/--/-- 32 - the shah of iran flees the country; iran is proclaimed an islamic republic.
1979/--/-- 32 - the first case of aids (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is reported.
1979/--/-- 32 - vietnamese forces invade kampuchea and overthrow the pol pot government.
1979/--/-- 32 - voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft rendezvous with the planet jupiter.
1979/10/-- 32 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al baltimore (3)
1980/--/-- 33 - "war on drugs" jails 1/5 of young black men
1980/--/-- 33 - an earthquake in algeria kills 20,000.
1980/--/-- 33 - border disputes erupt into the gulf war between iran and iraq.
1980/--/-- 33 - boxer sugar ray leonard regains the world welterweight title from roberto duran.
1980/--/-- 33 - british writer d.m. thomas publishes the white hotel.
1980/--/-- 33 - cd, vcr, & cable become common
1980/--/-- 33 - chun doo hwan becomes president of south korea.
1980/--/-- 33 - ex-beatle john lennon is fatally shot outside his manhattan apartment.
1980/--/-- 33 - ex-nicaraguan president anastasio somoza debayle is assassinated.
1980/--/-- 33 - gen. kenan evren leads a military coup in turkey.
1980/--/-- 33 - hollywood remakes b-movies and comix
1980/--/-- 33 - jose napoleon duarte becomes president of el salvador; the guerilla war continues.
1980/--/-- 33 - lech walesa heads solidarity, the first union movement in a communist country.
1980/--/-- 33 - liberian president william r. tolbert is killed in a military coup led by samuel doe.
1980/--/-- 33 - love canal, a chemically contaminated area in n.y., is declared a disaster area.
1980/--/-- 33 - meryl streep and dustin hoffman star in the film kramer v. kramer.
1980/--/-- 33 - milton obote is reelected as president of uganda.
1980/--/-- 33 - mount st. helens erupts in washington state killing eight people.
1980/--/-- 33 - peter shaffer's play amadeus is produced.
1980/--/-- 33 - rhodesia is renamed zimbabwe; robert mugabe becomes prime minister.
1980/--/-- 33 - robert redford directs the academy award winning film ordinary people.
1980/--/-- 33 - solidarity in poland
1980/--/-- 33 - ted turner begins the cable news network, offering round-the-clock news.
1980/--/-- 33 - the american television soap opera dallas is first broadcast.
1980/--/-- 33 - the castro regime deports more than 120,000 cubans to florida.
1980/--/-- 33 - the fbi's abscam investigation convicts seven members of the u.s. congress.
1980/--/-- 33 - the new hebrides become independent from britain and france as vanuatu.
1980/--/-- 33 - the u.s. boycotts the moscow olympics to protest the invasion of afghanistan.
1980/--/-- 33 - the u.s. makes an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the iranian hostages.
1980/--/-- 33 - the voyager 1 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet saturn.
1980/01/20 33 - president carter announces that u.s. athletes will not attend summer olympics in moscow unless soviet union withdraws from afghanistan.
1980/02/02 33 - fbi's undercover bribery investigation, code named abscam, implicates a u.s. senator, seven members of the house, and 31 other public officials.
1980/04/25 33 - u.s. mission to rescue hostages in iran is aborted after a helicopter and cargo plane collide at the staging site in a remote part of iran and 8 serviceme
are killed.
1980/10/-- 33 - world series nl philadelphia (4) al kansas city (2)
1981/--/-- 34 - andreas panpandreou becomes prime minister of greece.
1981/--/-- 34 - anwar al-sadat is killed; hosni mubarak becomes president of egypt.
1981/--/-- 34 - argentinian president roberto viola is ousted from power by general galtieri.
1981/--/-- 34 - black american novelist toni morrison publishes tar baby.
1981/--/-- 34 - britain grants independence to belize.
1981/--/-- 34 - burt lancaster stars in louis malle's film atlantic city.
1981/--/-- 34 - dan rather replaces walter cronkite as anchorman for the cbs evening news.
1981/--/-- 34 - filmmaker steven spielberg directs raiders of the lost ark.
1981/--/-- 34 - francois mitterand succeeds valery giscard d'estaing as president of france.
1981/--/-- 34 - garret fitzgerald becomes prime minister of ireland.
1981/--/-- 34 - gen. jaruzelski declares martial law in poland; solidarity leaders are arrested.
1981/--/-- 34 - henry fonda, katharine hepburn and jane fonda star in the film on golden pond.
1981/--/-- 34 - hu yao-bang becomes head of the chinese communist party.
1981/--/-- 34 - indian-born author salman rushdie publishes midnight's children.
1981/--/-- 34 - jeane kirkpatrick becomes u.s. ambassador to the united nations.
1981/--/-- 34 - jerry rawlings leads a military coup in ghana.
1981/--/-- 34 - john hinckley, jr. shoots and seriously wounds president reagan.
1981/--/-- 34 - pope john paul ii is shot and wounded by a turkish gunman.
1981/--/-- 34 - reagan is inaugurated as the 40th u.s. president; bush becomes vice-president.
1981/--/-- 34 - ronald w. reagan (republican) becomes president of the united states
1981/--/-- 34 - sandra day o'connor is appointed the first woman u.s. supreme court justice.
1981/--/-- 34 - ten ira prisoners starve themselves to death as a political protest.
1981/--/-- 34 - the prince of wales marries lady diana spencer in britain.
1981/--/-- 34 - the u.s. hostages in iran are released.
1981/--/-- 34 - the first 24-hour music video channel mtv (music television) is launched in the u.s.
1981/--/-- 34 - the first space shuttle is launched, crewed by john young and robert crippen.
1981/01/02 34 - u.s. hostages held in iran are released after 444 days in captivity.
1981/03/30 34 - president reagan is shot in the chest by john hinckley, jr.
1981/09/25 34 - sandra day o'connor is sworn in as the first woman supreme court justice.
1981/10/-- 34 - world series nl los angeles (4) al new york (2)
1982/--/-- 35 - alvaro alfredo magana becomes president of el salvador.
1982/--/-- 35 - american writer paul theroux publishes the mosquito coast.
1982/--/-- 35 - amin gemayel becomes the president of lebanon after his brother bashir is killed.
1982/--/-- 35 - argentina invades the falkland islands; britain and argentina are at war.
1982/--/-- 35 - black american writer alice walker publishes the color purple.
1982/--/-- 35 - british troops recapture the falkland islands from argentina.
1982/--/-- 35 - dustin hoffman stars in sydney pollack's film tootsie.
1982/--/-- 35 - felipe gonzalez marquez becomes prime minister of spain.
1982/--/-- 35 - filmmaker steven spielberg directs e.t. the extra-terrestrial.
1982/--/-- 35 - gen. hussain muhammad ershad seizes control of bangladesh in a bloodless coup.
1982/--/-- 35 - javier perez de cuellar succeeds kurt waldheim as secretary-general of the un.
1982/--/-- 35 - pop singer michael jackson records the all-time best-selling album thriller.
1982/--/-- 35 - soul composer quincy jones wins 5 grammy awards.
1982/--/-- 35 - princess grace of monaco dies in a car accident.
1982/--/-- 35 - richard attenborough directs the academy award winning film gandhi.
1982/--/-- 35 - soviet leader leonid brezhnev dies; he is succeeded by yuri andropov.
1982/--/-- 35 - sylvester stallone stars in the first rambo film first blood.
1982/--/-- 35 - the equal rights amendment (era) fails to win ratification in the u.s.
1982/--/-- 35 - the israeli army invades the lebanon and drives the plo guerrillas out of beirut.
1982/--/-- 35 - the un maintains a peace between christian and muslim militia in lebanon.
1982/--/-- 35 - the voyager 2 spacecraft transmits pictures to the u.s. of the planet saturn.
1982/--/-- 35 - two satellites are deployed during the first operational space shuttle mission.
1982/--/-- 35 - usa today, the first daily newspaper aimed at readers throughout the u.s., is launched.
1982/06/30 35 - deadline for ratification of the equal rights amendment to the constitution passes without the necessary votes.
1982/10/-- 35 - world series nl st. louis (4) al milwaukee (3)
1983/--/-- 36 - american runner joan benoit sets a world record in the boston marathon.
1983/--/-- 36 - american writer william kennedy publishes ironweed.
1983/--/-- 36 - american zoologist dian fossey publishes her book gorillas in the mist.
1983/--/-- 36 - an epa report projects the irreversible onset of the greenhouse effect.
1983/--/-- 36 - an infrared astronomical satellite is launched to probe deep into the milky way.
1983/--/-- 36 - australia ii becomes the first non-american yacht to win the america's cup.
1983/--/-- 36 - benedetto bettino craxi becomes the socialist prime minister of italy.
1983/--/-- 36 - car bombs destroy the u.s. embassy and u.s. marine headquarters in beirut.
1983/--/-- 36 - civil war breaks out in sri lanka between the sinhalese and tamil separatists.
1983/--/-- 36 - ex-nazi klaus barbie (the butcher of lyon) is extradited from bolivia to france.
1983/--/-- 36 - guion stewart bluford, jr. becomes the first black american astronaut.
1983/--/-- 36 - libyan forces invade chad; french troops aid the chad government.
1983/--/-- 36 - manuel antonio noriega becomes commander of panama's defense forces.
1983/--/-- 36 - mario soares becomes the socialist prime minister of portugal.
1983/--/-- 36 - nigerian president shehu shagari is deposed in a military coup led by gen. buhari.
1983/--/-- 36 - opposition leader benigno aquino is assassinated in the philippines.
1983/--/-- 36 - president reagan proposes a space-based strategic defense initiative (sdi).
1983/--/-- 36 - raul alfonsin is elected as president of argentina, ending military rule.
1983/--/-- 36 - reagan proposes "star wars" and increases military funding
1983/--/-- 36 - sally k. ride becomes the first u.s. woman astronaut.
1983/--/-- 36 - shirley maclaine and jack nicholson star in the film terms of endearment.
1983/--/-- 36 - the labor party returns to power in australia; robert hawke becomes prime minister.
1983/--/-- 36 - the soviets shoot down a south korean airliner that violated its airspace.
1983/--/-- 36 - the compact disc is introduced for recorded music.
1983/--/-- 36 - u.s. forces invade grenada to protect u.s. lives after a military coup on the island.
1983/--/-- 36 - yitzhak shamir succeeds menachem begin as prime minister of israel.
1983/10/-- 36 - world series nl philadelphia (1) al baltimore (4)
1983/10/25 36 - u.s. invades caribbean island of grenada after a coup by marxist faction in the government.
1984/--/-- 37 - a toxic gas leak kills 2,000 and affects an estimated 150,000 in bhopal, india.
1984/--/-- 37 - american pop singer madonna releases her album like a virgin.
1984/--/-- 37 - american track athlete carl lewis wins four gold medals at the los angeles olympics.
1984/--/-- 37 - brian mulroney succeeds john turner as prime minister of canada.
1984/--/-- 37 - britain and china sign a treaty for the return of hong kong to china in 1997.
1984/--/-- 37 - britain grants independence to brunei.
1984/--/-- 37 - british prime minister margaret thatcher escapes injury in an ira bomb attack.
1984/--/-- 37 - comedian eddie murphy stars in the film beverly hills cop.
1984/--/-- 37 - congress forbids official u.s. aid for the anti-sandinista contras in nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 37 - czech writer milan kundera publishes the unbearable lightness of being.
1984/--/-- 37 - geraldine ferraro becomes the first woman vice-presidential candidate in the u.s.
1984/--/-- 37 - indian prime minister indira gandhi is assassinated by sikh extremists.
1984/--/-- 37 - indian troops attack the golden temple at amritsar to remove militant sikhs.
1984/--/-- 37 - rajiv gandhi becomes prime minister of india.
1984/--/-- 37 - rap music
1984/--/-- 37 - rev. desmond tutu, opponent of apartheid, is awarded the nobel peace prize.
1984/--/-- 37 - rock singer bob geldof organizes band aid to raise funds for african famine victims.
1984/--/-- 37 - sandinista leader daniel ortega saavedra is elected president of nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 37 - shimon peres succeeds yitzhak shamir as prime minister of israel.
1984/--/-- 37 - soviet leader yuri andropov dies; he is succeeded by konstantin chernenko.
1984/--/-- 37 - space shuttle astronauts test the manned maneuvering unit and move freely in space.
1984/10/-- 37 - world series nl san diego (1) al detroit (4)
1985/--/-- 38 - albanian premier enver hoxha dies; he is succeeded by ramiz alia.
1985/--/-- 38 - american film actor rock hudson dies from aids.
1985/--/-- 38 - american humorist and radio personality garison keillor publishes lake wobegon days.
1985/--/-- 38 - american rock singer tina turner wins three grammy awards.
1985/--/-- 38 - baseball player pete rose beats ty cobb's 57-year-old record of 4,191 base hits.
1985/--/-- 38 - boxer michael spinks defeats larry holmes for the heavyweight championship.
1985/--/-- 38 - clint eastwood directs and stars in the western film pale rider.
1985/--/-- 38 - french agents sink the greenpeace ship rainbow warrior in new zealand.
1985/--/-- 38 - gorbachev unravels soviet system
1985/--/-- 38 - jose de sarney becomes the first civilian president of brazil in 21 years.
1985/--/-- 38 - julius nyerere is succeeded as president of tanzania by ali hassan mwinyi.
1985/--/-- 38 - maj.-gen. mohammed buhari is ousted in a bloodless coup in nigeria.
1985/--/-- 38 - mexico city is heavily damaged by an earthquake.
1985/--/-- 38 - middleweight champion marvin hagler defends his title against thomas "hit man" hearns.
1985/--/-- 38 - palestinian terrorists hijack the italian liner achille lauro.
1985/--/-- 38 - premier gorbachev initiates glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).
1985/--/-- 38 - president milton obote is ousted in a military coup in uganda.
1985/--/-- 38 - president reagan and mikhail gorbachev hold their first summit meeting.
1985/--/-- 38 - president reagan is inaugurated for his second term of office.
1985/--/-- 38 - robert redford and meryl streep star in the film out of africa.
1985/--/-- 38 - running back walter payton sets an all-time nfl record for rushes of 14,860 yards.
1985/--/-- 38 - shiite muslim terrorists hijack a twa boeing 727 jet to beirut.
1985/--/-- 38 - soviet premier konstantin chernenko dies; he is succeeded by mikhail gorbachev.
1985/--/-- 38 - sudanese prime minister gaafar al-nimeiry is ousted in a military coup.
1985/--/-- 38 - the north american soccer league (nasl) suspends operations.
1985/--/-- 38 - world chess champion anatoly karpov is defeated by 21-year-old gary kasparov.
1985/01/21 38 - reagan's second inauguration.
1985/10/-- 38 - world series nl st. louis (3) al kansas city (4)
1986/--/-- 39 - a hole in the ozone layer is detected over antarctica.
1986/--/-- 39 - a major nuclear-reactor disaster takes place at chernobyl in the soviet union.
1986/--/-- 39 - benazir bhutto, daughter of hanged premier ali bhutto, is jailed in pakistan.
1986/--/-- 39 - boxer mike tyson wins his first world heavyweight title.
1986/--/-- 39 - civil war breaks out in yemen (aden).
1986/--/-- 39 - comedian and filmmaker woody allen directs hannah and her sisters.
1986/--/-- 39 - corazon aquino is elected president of the philippines; ferdinand marcos is exiled.
1986/--/-- 39 - cyclist greg lemond becomes the first american to win the tour de france.
1986/--/-- 39 - czech tennis player ivan lendl wins the french open and u.s. open tournaments.
1986/--/-- 39 - filmmaker oliver stone directs the vietnam war film platoon.
1986/--/-- 39 - golfer jack nicklaus at age 46 becomes the oldest man ever to win the u.s. open.
1986/--/-- 39 - ice hockey player wayne gretzky raises the season point record to 215.
1986/--/-- 39 - nigerian poet and playwright wole soyinka wins the nobel prize for literature.
1986/--/-- 39 - president francois mitterrand appoints jacques chirac prime minister of france.
1986/--/-- 39 - president jean claude duvalier of haiti goes into exile.
1986/--/-- 39 - sayid mohammad najibullah replaces marxist president babrak karmal in afghanistan.
1986/--/-- 39 - select committees are established to investigate the iran-contra affair.
1986/--/-- 39 - singer-actress bette midler stars in down and out in beverly hills.
1986/--/-- 39 - swedish prime minister olof palme is assassinated.
1986/--/-- 39 - the european space agency's giotto spacecraft passes within 335 miles of halley's comet.
1986/--/-- 39 - the food and drug administration approve the commercial use of the drug interferon.
1986/--/-- 39 - the soviet union launches the first mir space station.
1986/--/-- 39 - the space shuttle challenger explodes after launch, killing the crew of seven.
1986/--/-- 39 - the ultralight voyager aircraft flies around the world nonstop in 9 days.
1986/--/-- 39 - u.s. aircraft attack military and terrorist related targets in libya.
1986/--/-- 39 - voyager 2 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet uranus.
1986/--/-- 39 - yitzak shamir succeeds shimon peres as prime minister of israel.
1986/01/28 39 - space shuttle challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. it is the worst accident in the history of the u.s. space program.
1986/04/14 39 - u.s. bombs military bases in libya in effort to deter terrorist strikes on american targets.
1986/10/-- 39 - world series nl new york (4) al boston (3)
1986/11/-- 39 - iran-contra scandal breaks when white house is forced to reveal secret arms-for-hostages deals.
1987/--/-- 40 - a wall street stock market crisis spreads to tokyo and london.
1987/--/-- 40 - american author tom wolfe publishes the satirical novel the bonfire of the vanities.
1987/--/-- 40 - basketball player kareem abdul-jabbar passes wilt chamberlain's points record.
1987/--/-- 40 - bettino craxi resigns; giovanni goria becomes prime minister of italy.
1987/--/-- 40 - colonel oliver north testifies at the iran-contra affair hearings.
1987/--/-- 40 - congress holds public hearings in iran-contra investigation.
1987/--/-- 40 - east german leader erich honecker makes his first visit to west germany.
1987/--/-- 40 - filmmaker brian de palma directs the untouchables.
1987/--/-- 40 - gary hart ends his presidential campaign after allegations of sexual impropriety.
1987/--/-- 40 - libya suffers a military defeat in chad.
1987/--/-- 40 - more than 400 die in clashes between iranian pilgrims and saudi police at mecca.
1987/--/-- 40 - ozone "hole" found over antartica
1987/--/-- 40 - takeshita noburu succeeds nakasone yasuhiro as the japanese premier.
1987/--/-- 40 - the u.s. frigate stark is hit by an iraqi missile in the persian gulf.
1987/--/-- 40 - west bank palestinians launch an intifadah (uprising) against the israeli occupation.
1987/--/-- 40 - writer gore vidal publishes empire, a novel of 19th-century u.s. politics.
1987/06/12 40 - in a speech in berlin, president reagan challenges soviet leader mikhail gorbachev to "tear down this wall" and open eastern europe to political and
economic reform.
1987/10/-- 40 - world series nl st. louis (3) al minnesota (4)
1987/12/08 41 - reagan and gorbachev sign inf treaty, the first arms-control agreement to reduce the superpowers' nuclear weapons.
1988/--/-- 41 - a cease-fire is declared in the war between iran and iraq.
1988/--/-- 41 - armenia is hit by a severe earthquake, killing tens of thousands.
1988/--/-- 41 - australia celebrates its bicentennial.
1988/--/-- 41 - austrian president kurt waldheim is exonerated of involvement in war crimes.
1988/--/-- 41 - benazir bhutto is elected prime minister of pakistan.
1988/--/-- 41 - carlos salinas de gortari is elected president of mexico.
1988/--/-- 41 - colombian writer gabriel garcia marquez publishes love in the time of cholera.
1988/--/-- 41 - dennis connor skippers a u.s. catamaran to beat new zealand in the america's cup.
1988/--/-- 41 - details of the u.s. stealth bomber are released for the first time.
1988/--/-- 41 - discovery becomes the first space shuttle to be launched after the challenger disaster.
1988/--/-- 41 - dustin hoffman stars in the academy award winning film rain man.
1988/--/-- 41 - egyptian writer naguib mahfouz wins the nobel prize for literature.
1988/--/-- 41 - german tennis player boris becker leads west germany to victory in the davis cup.
1988/--/-- 41 - german tennis player steffi graf becomes the 3rd woman to win the grand slam.
1988/--/-- 41 - hungarian leader janos kadar is removed from power; karoly grosz assumes his post.
1988/--/-- 41 - indian-born writer salman rushdie publishes the satanic verses.
1988/--/-- 41 - jesse jackson fails in a second attempt to win the democratic presidential nomination.
1988/--/-- 41 - lee teng-hui succeeds chiang ching-kuo as president of taiwan.
1988/--/-- 41 - military leaders seize control in haiti after elections are held.
1988/--/-- 41 - military leaders seize power in burma (myanmar).
1988/--/-- 41 - nationalist uprisings breakout in the soviet republic of armenia.
1988/--/-- 41 - pakistani leader gen. muhammed zia ul-haq is killed in a plane crash.
1988/--/-- 41 - roh tae woo succeeds chun doo hwan as president of south korea.
1988/--/-- 41 - south african leader nelson mandela is removed from prison for hospital treatment.
1988/--/-- 41 - sprinter ben johnson is stripped of his olympic gold medal after a drug test.
1988/--/-- 41 - steven spielberg produces the innovative animated film who framed roger rabbit.
1988/--/-- 41 - television evangelist jim bakker is convicted of fraud and conspiracy.
1988/--/-- 41 - the geneva accords set the timetable for soviet withdrawal from afghanistan.
1988/--/-- 41 - the iraqis are accused of using chemical weapons against the kurds.
1988/--/-- 41 - the u.s. cruiser vincennes accidentally shoots downs an iranian airliner.
1988/--/-- 41 - the u.s. indict panamanian dictator gen. manuel antonio noriega for drug offenses.
1988/--/-- 41 - vietnam announces it will withdraw all its forces from kampuchea.
1988/10/-- 41 - world series nl los angeles (4) al oakland (1)
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