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Saturday, 21 December 2024
1956 On this day in history donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow 
1957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting on February - 11.
1958 On this day in history auto racer Marshall Teague died at age thirty-seven after attempting to raise the closed-course speed record at Daytona.
1958 On this day in history marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs
1958 On February - 11 ruth Carol Taylor is first African-American woman hired as flight attendant
1958 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY on this day in history.
1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v West Indies at Delhi) on this day in history.
1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show on this day in history.
1961 On February - 11 robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem on February - 11.
1961 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82 on February - 11.
1962 On this day in history nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon
1963 On this day in history beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me"
1963 On this day in history cIA Domestic Operations Division created
1963 On February - 11 near Kapuskasing Ontarioa shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded0
1963 On February - 11 sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30
1964 Beatles first live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum on this day in history.
1964 Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus on February - 11.
1964 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France on February - 11.
1965 Beatles drummer Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox in London on February - 11.
1968 Israeli-Jordan border fight on this day in history.
1968 Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY on this day in history.
1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France on February - 11.
1968 On February - 11 howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78
1969 Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champion on February - 11.
1969 In Montreal Quebec Canadian and West Indian student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University on this day in history.
1969 James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48 on February - 11.
1970 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington NH (state 24-hour record) on February - 11.
1970 Japan joins the space race, by launching a satellite into earth orbit on February - 11.
1970 Japan launches its first satellite into orbit on February - 11.
1970 John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting the South African rugby team playing in Scotland on this day in history.
1970 Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.
1971 Montréal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal on this day in history.
1971 On this day in history uS, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
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