1960 - Joanne Woodward receives the #first_star on the #Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame. 1962 - #Jamaica becomes #independent nation #within the #Commonwealth_of_Nations. 1964 - #The_Beatles make their #first appearance on The #Ed_Sullivan_Show, performing before a record-busting audience of #73_million_viewers. 1965 - Vietnam War: The #first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam. 1966 - The NHL announces its intended expansion that will double its size. 1969 - #First_test_flight of the #Boeing_747. 1971 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the #San_Fernando_Valley area of California. 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the #third_manned_moon_landing. 1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India. 1975 - The #Soyuz_17 Soviet spacecraft #returns to Earth. 1986 - #Comet_Halley reaches #perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century. 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for #independence. 1994 - Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced. 1995 - Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the #first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform #spacewalks. 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in Londons Canary Wharf. 2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School. The Uwajima Fishery High School (宇和島水産高ç‰å¦æ ¡)is in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. ... #Births: 1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611) 1645 - Johann Aegidius Bach, German violistian (d. 1716) 1666 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737) 1748 - Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826)
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