Today in People History (Part 3)
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Historical Events
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1961-06-17 - "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1962-01-30 - 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
1962-03-21 - A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
1962-03-23 - Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play & coach
1962-08-12 - 1st time 2 people in space
1962-11-21 - The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
1962-12-17 - Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)
1963-02-08 - 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1963-09-04 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
1963-12-08 - Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outsideElkton, Marylandwith a loss of 81 people.
1964-01-13 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
1964-10-12 - 1st time 3 people in space
1964-10-26 - Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1964-10-31 - Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
1964-12-15 - 1st time 4 people in space
1965-01-01 - The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.
1965-03-18 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1965-04-20 - People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1965-12-25 - The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz
1966-03-11 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
1966-06-01 - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966-06-08 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1966-11-24 - A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
1966-12-07 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
1966-12-20 - NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
1967-01-12 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1967-02-03 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1967-02-07 - A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.
1967-10-27 - 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967-10-27 - NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
1967-11-05 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.
1967-11-30 - Democratic People's republic of Yemen gains independence
1967-11-30 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from UK
1967-11-30 - People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
1967-11-30 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
1967-12-11 - People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1967-12-15 - The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
1968-02-26 - Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1968-03-04 - Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968-05-27 - The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1968-06-03 - Poor Peoples March on Washington
1968-06-19 - 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
1968-06-20 - Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1968-07-11 - Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so
1968-12-31 - 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1969-01-14 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
1969-02-23 - Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1969-03-02 - 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
1969-03-29 - Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1969-05-30 - People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao
1969-09-01 - A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to the People's Committees.
1969-10-12 - 1st time 5 people in space
1969-10-13 - 1st time 7 people in space
1969-12-31 - Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi
1970-03-25 - Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1970-09-12 - Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
1970-12-01 - Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen
1971-01-22 - John & Yoko record "Power to the People"
1971-04-14 - President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971-04-17 - People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1971-07-15 - Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China
1971-08-31 - Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon
1971-11-23 - China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1971-12-01 - People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
1971-12-18 - People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
1971-12-25 - Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
1972-09-29 - Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations
1973-06-03 - At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes
1973-06-26 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1973-07-04 - Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
1973-07-12 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1973-08-03 - National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
1973-11-17 - Pres Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
1974-01-05 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1974-01-08 - E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC
1974-02-27 - "People" magazine begins sales
1974-03-11 - Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1974-05-15 - Ma'alot massacre: A total of 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed.
1975-02-28 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
1975-05-06 - 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
1975-07-01 - WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1975-09-28 - The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.
1975-12-02 - Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1975-12-03 - Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
1975-12-26 - 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
1976-01-21 - Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1976-06-02 - East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
1976-07-18 - Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1976-07-22 - "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances
1976-07-29 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1976-09-16 - Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
1976-10-02 - "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 perfs
1976-10-06 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed.
1977-02-01 - Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1977-03-03 - Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1977-03-07 - Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977-04-14 - Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1977-04-27 - 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1977-05-01 - 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
1977-09-10 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France.
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