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1960

March 1:

U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over Russia.

May 23:

Nazi Adolf Eichmann is captured by Israelis in Argentina.

September:

Summer Olympic Games in Rome

1961

January 3:

United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba.

April 12:

Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth.

May 5:

Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first American in space on a suborbital flight in Freedom VII.

July 21:

Virgil "Gus" Grissom becomes the second American in space in Liberty Bell VII.

August 13:

Berlin Wall erected.

October 29:

The Soviet Union detonates a 50 megaton hydrogen bomb, the biggest explosion in history.

1962

February 20:

Lt. Col. John Glenn is the first American to orbit the Earth, in Friendship VII.

May 24:

Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in Aurora VII.

October 3:

Walter Schirra orbits the Earth six times in Sigma VII.

October:

The Cuban Missile Crisis.

December 14:

Mariner 2 probe passes within 22,000 miles of Venus.

1963

January 22:

France, West Germany sign a treaty of cooperation ending 400 years of conflict.

May 15:

Gordon Cooper orbits the Earth 22 times aboard Faith VII, the last Mercury flight.

June 3:

Pope John XXIII dies, to be succeeded by Pope Paul VI.

June 14:

Vostok 5 is launched into orbit. Valery Bykovsky spends 119 hours in space.

June 16:

Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space in Vostok 6.

August 30:

The "hot-line" between Washington and Moscow becomes operational.

November 22:

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.

1964

July 28:

Ranger 7 moon probe returns 4,316 pictures in the last 15 minutes before impact.

October 12:

The Soviets launch Voskhod 1, the first space capsule with three men.

October 15:

Soviet First Secretary Khrushchev forced into retirement by Leonid Brezhnev.

1965

February 21:

Malcolm X assassinated.

March 18:

Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space.

March 23:

Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young fly the first US Gemini space mission.

June 3:

James McDivitt and Ed White are launched in Gemini 4. Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space.

July 14:

Mariner 4 returns 22 closeup pictures of Mars, revealing a cratered surface.

August 11:

Start of six days of rioting in Watts, causing $175 million in damages.

November 9:

Great Northeastern Power Blackout.

December 4:

Frank Borman and James Lovell are launched into orbit in Gemini 7. They will remain in orbit for nearly 12 days, orbiting the Earth 206 times.

1966

February 3:

Soviet Luna 3 probe soft lands on the lunar surface.

March 1:

Soviet Venera 3 space probe is the first probe to enter the atmosphere of Venus.

March 16:

Neil Armstrong and David Scott lose control of Gemini 8 in orbit when a thruster wouldn't stop firing.

June 2:

US Surveyor I space probe soft lands on the lunar surface.

September 12:

Gemini 9 launched. After docking with the Agena target, they boost the apogee of their orbit to 850 miles.

November 12:

Gemini 12 launched. Edwin Aldrin spends 5 1/2 hours walking in space.

1967

January 27:

Apollo 1 fire kills Ed White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee.

June:

Arab-Israeli Six Day War.

June 17:

Red China explodes its first hydrogen bomb.

1968

January 23:

USS Pueblo seized by the North Koreans for spying.

April 4:

Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.

June 5:

Senator Robert Kennedy shot.

August 20:

Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia.

October 11:

Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, is launched into orbit. Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham send the first live TV pictures from orbit.

December 24:

Frank Borman reads Genesis to Earth from circumlunar orbit aboard Apollo 8.

1969

March 3:

Apollo 9 is launched into orbit. The Lunar Module is tested for the first time.

May 16:

Soviet Venera 5 soft-lands on Venus, returning data. Venera 6 lands the next day.

May 22:

The Apollo 10 Lunar Module descends to 8 miles above the lunar surface in a dry run for Apollo 11.

July 16:

Apollo 11 is launched.

July 20:

Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon.

July 31:

Mariner 6 passes within 2000 miles of Mars, returning television pictures.

October 11:

Soyuz 6 is launched. The Soviets have 3 spacecraft and 7 men in orbit at once.

November 14:

Apollo 12 is launched. 75 pounds of lunar soil are returned.

1970

April 13:

Apollo 13 is launched. On the way to the Moon, there is an explosion in the Service Module of the Apollo. The astronauts use the Lunar Module engines and life support to return them back safely to the Earth.

June 1:

Soyuz 9 begins the first of 287 orbits of the Earth, breaking duration records.

September 24:

Soviet Luna 16 probe returns lunar soil samples to Earth.

December:

Rioting in Poland after sharp rises in food prices.

1971

January 31:

Apollo 14 is launched. It will return 95 pounds of material from Fra Mauro.

June 30:

Georgiy Dobrovolskiy, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsyev die when their Soyuz 11 capsule loses pressurization just before reentry.

July 26:

Apollo 15 is launched. David Scott and James Irwin spend 18 hours on the lunar surface near Hadley Rille, driving the first Lunar Rover.

November 13:

US Mariner 9 probe becomes first to orbit Mars, returning 7300 pictures.

November 27:

Soviet Mars 2 probe lands capsule on Martian surface.

1972

February:

President Nixon spends an unprecedented eight days visiting Red China.

March 3:

Interplanetary space probe Pioneer 10 is launched toward Jupiter.

April 16:

Apollo 16 is launched. John Young and Charles Duke Jr. spend more than 20 hours on the lunar surface, returning 209 pounds of lunar samples from the Descartes region.

June 17:

Five men arrested trying to bug the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee.

September 5:

Massacre at the Münich Summer Olympics by the Black September terrorists.

December 7:

Apollo 17, the last lunar mission, is launched. Eugene Cernan and geologist Harrison Schmitt spend 22 hours driving around Taurus-Littrow, returning 258 pounds of lunar material to Earth.

1973

January 1:

Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark join the European Common Market.

April 30:

Nixon accepts responsibility but not the blame for Watergate.

May 14:

Skylab space station is launched into orbit. A micrometeoroid shield tears loose during the launch, crippling the station.

May 25:

Three American astronauts perform the first repairs in space, fixing Skylab to make it habitable.

June 22:

Conrad, Weitz and Kerwin return from Skylab after 28 days.

July 28:

Bean, Lousma and Garriott begin 59 days of experimentation in Skylab.

August 15:

American bombing of Cambodia ends.

October 6:

Yom Kippur war breaks out.

October 10:

Spiro Agnew fined after pleading 'no contest' to tax evasion charges.

November 11:

Egypt and Israeli sign US sponsored cease-fire.

November 16:

Carr, Pogue and Gibson begin 84 days of experimentation in Skylab.

December 3:

Pioneer 10 sends back the first closeup pictures of Jupiter.

1974

February 5:

Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army.

June 12:

Ruby of Khamarand stolen in Germany.

July 3:

Soviets launch Soyuz 14, to dock with the Salyut 3 space station for two weeks.

July 30:

House Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of impeachment against Nixon.

August 9:

Nixon resigns, Ford sworn in.

September 8:

President Ford pardons ex-President Nixon.

December 3:

Pioneer 11 passes within 25,000 miles of Jupiter.

1975

January 11:

Soyuz 17 launched. The two astronauts spend 30 days docked with the Salyut 4 space station.

July 15:

Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft launched toward historic link-up in space.

September 5:

President Ford escapes an assassination attempt.

September 22:

President Ford escapes a second assassination attempt.

October 10:

French government scandalized by anonymous mailings revealing blackmail, financial scandals, and corruption.

November 20:

Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain dies.

1976

May 11:

Two British nuclear scientists die in a freak fire at the Tottenham Club in London.

June 26:

Mendenhall Collection of jewelry stolen.

July 4:

United States celebrates Bicentennial.

July 6:

Soyuz 21 rockets into orbit. The two astronauts spend 50 days aboard the Salyut 5 space station.

July 20:

US Viking 1 lands on the surface of Mars. Designed to last for 90 days, the hardy probe would continue operations until November of 1982.

August 4:

Outbreak of mysterious disease at American Legion convention.

November 2:

Jimmy Carter elected U.S. president.

1977

January 18:

Scientists identify "Legionnaire's Disease" bacterium.

February 7:

Soyuz 24 returns two astronauts to Salyut 5 space station for 17 days.

March 15:

£2,000,000 worth of gems stolen from the Wiedersehen Museum in Heidelberg.

May 23:

Insulin produced in lab via genetically-engineered bacterium.

July 22:

Deng Xiaoping restored to power in China.

September 5:

Voyager 1 space probe launched.

September 10:

Renoir stolen from the Louvre, replaced by a photo of Generalissimo Franco.

September 20:

Voyager 2 space probe launched.

November 2:

"Franco" theft of Danish socialite's necklace in Copenhagen.

1978

March 16:

Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by Red Brigades.

April 18:

Senate ratifies Panama Canal treaty.

May 5:

"Franco" theft of the Cross of St. Anthony from a private collection in Bonn.

May 9:

The body of Aldo Moro is found.

July 13:

A Diagnosis of Schizophrenia by Aleksandr Gorov wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

August 6:

Pope Paul VI dies at age 80.

August 7:

"Franco" theft of diamonds from courier in Amsterdam.

September 17:

Camp David accords signed.

September 28:

Pope John Paul I dies unexpectedly.

October 16:

Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Krakow named Pope John Paul II.

December 9:

Pioneer Venus 2 lands four part probe on surface of Venus.

1979

January 2:

"Franco" theft of Bach manuscripts in Brussels.

January 4:

Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of Kent State shooting victims.

February 1:

Ayatollah Khomeini takes control of Iran.

March 4:

Boston Globe reports new study showing rapidly increasing youth suicide rate.

March 5:

Voyager 1 passes Jupiter, returning spectacular photographs.

March 28:

Three Mile Island accident.

July 9:

Voyager 2 passes Jupiter, returning more spectacular photographs.

August:

Pioneer 11 transmits closeup pictures of Saturn.

September 3:

"Franco" theft of $5,000,000 in negotiable bonds in London.

November 4:

Iranian militants seize hostages at American Embassy in Teheran.

1980

February 2:

Abscam undercover investigation implicates several public officials.

July 19:

United States and others boycott Moscow Olympics.

August:

Solidarity strike in Poland results in a stunning victory for the workers.

November:

Voyager 1 returns stunning closeup pictures of Saturn.

November 4:

Ronald Reagan elected President.

December 8:

John Lennon assassinated.

1981

January:

Solidarity strike spreads nationally throughout Poland.

January 20:

Series of UFO sightings in Oregon end with Crater Lake lights, seen by hundreds.

January 25:

American hostages return to United States from Iran.

March 30:

Ronald Reagan wounded in assassination attempt.

April 9:

Soyuz 35 launched to dock with Salyut 6 space station. Valery Ryumin and Leonid Popov remain in orbit for 185 days.

April 12:

Space shuttle Columbia launched on its inaugural flight.

April 18:

"Tea Time Tipoff" exposes highly-placed Soviet moles in Britain.

May 10:

Engraving plates stolen from Spanish mint.

May 14:

Pope John Paul II wounded in an assassination attempt.

May 25:

UFO crazy infiltrates Wright-Patterson Air Force Base looking for alien bodies.

July 7:

Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Conner to the Supreme Court.

July 18:

At least 110 die in walkway collapse at Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel.

July 29:

Prince Charles weds Lady Diana.

August 3:

Air traffic controllers go out on strike.

August 25:

Voyager 2 returns closeup pictures of the moons of Saturn.

September 11:

Red Brigades information is mailed into Italian Anti-Terrorism office in Rome.

October 1:

"Franco" set bomb blows up IBM offices at Hursley in Britain. 14 dead.

October 18:

General Jarulzelski named first secretary in Poland.

December 13:

Martial law imposed in Poland.

1982

January 29:

Philadelphia Bulletin ceases publication.

March 8:

Congressman Franklin Morelli dies.

April 22:

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Aleksandr Gorov is exiled from Russia to Israel.

June 15:

British defeat Argentines in Falklands' War.

June 30:

ERA fails ratification.

August 11:

Picasso stolen from the Louvre.

October 8:

Solidarity outlawed.

October 12:

House panel calls for investigation of Calderone Bolivian drug family.

October 16:

"Franco" bombing of Olivetti plant in Rome. 9 dead.

November 10:

Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev dies.

November 15:

Yuri Andropov named to replace Leonid Brezhnev.

December 2:

Barney Clark implanted with artificial heart.

1983

January 19:

George Wallace wins unprecedented fourth term as Governor of Alabama.

February 12:

Snowstorm buries Northeast.

February 26:

Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip start tour of U.S. in San Diego.

March 2:

Final episode of M*A*S*H airs; draws estimated 125 million viewers.

March 31:

KGB plans to incite riots in anti-nuclear demonstrations are mailed into Amsterdam newspapers along with a picture of Franco.

April 1:

Thousands of demonstrators protest nuclear weapons on European soil.

April 8:

Over 20 inches of rain deluge Gulf Coast states.

May 3:

Vermont Congressman found naked in his office with two 16 year old girls.

June 13:

Pioneer 10 spacecraft passes the orbit of Neptune, leaving the solar system.

June 18:

Sally K. Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

July 15:

Armenian terrorists explode a bomb at Orly Airport in Paris, killing 6.

July 22:

Polish government lifts martial law.

August 30:

Air Force Col. Guion S. Bluford becomes the first black astronaut in space.

August 30:

Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets, killing 269.

September 5:

Space shuttle Challenger makes its first night landing.

October 23:

237 Marines killed by terrorist bomb in Beirut.

October 25:

U.S. invades Grenada.

November 28:

The European Spacelab is launched on board the shuttle Columbia for ten days of experimentation.

December 4:

"Franco" bomb explodes in Paris, kills US State Department official, 17 others.

1984

January 1:

AT&T divestiture.

February 3:

Space shuttle Challenger launched on STS-11. Launch of the Palapa-B2 and Westar VI satellites from the shuttle go awry, due to faults in their boosters. Bruce McCandless and Bob Steward test out the 'Buck Rogers' Manned Maneuvering units. The landing is the first at the Kennedy Space Center.

February 8:

Leonid Zizim, Vladimir Solovyov, and Oleg Atkov begin a record 237 days in space aboard the Salyut 7 space station.

February 9:

Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov dies and is replaced by Konstantin Chernenko.

March 24:

Four armed men seize $21.8 million dollars in Rome.

April 12:

Sarindari Sapphire stolen from the Amrit Museum in Bombay.

May 14:

Reverend Sun Myung Moon enters prison on income tax charges.

July 5:

Supreme Court relaxes rules on evidence from defective search warrants.

July 19:

Major drug bust causes arrest of 24 related to Calderone Bolivian drug family.

July 23:

Vanessa Williams forced to resign as Miss America due to Penthouse pictures.

August 8:

Sarindari Sapphire recovered by Indian government.

August 25:

Soviets conduct the first successful test of their own cruise missile.

September 20:

Inquiry clears Edwin Meese of wrongdoing in financial dealings.

November 8:

The Discovery space shuttle is launched on STS-19. The errant Palapa-B2 and Westar VI satellites are retrieved from orbit and returned to Earth.

December 4:

Calderone Bolivian Revenge Squads kill 8 drug enforcement agents in one week.

December 8:

Freak snowstorm buries New England.

December 20:

Marital rape outlawed in New York.

1985

February 3:

Record cold grips Northern and Central states.

March 10:

Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko dies, and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev.

March 21:

J. S. Bach's 300th birthday celebrated world-wide.

April 23:

Coca-Cola changes secret formula.

April 29:

The Challenger space shuttle carries the European space lab back into orbit for seven days of experimentation.

May 2:

100 Hell's Angels arrested on drug, weapons charges.

May 11:

Fire in a soccer stadium in Bradford in Britain is watched in horror by television audience. There are several horrible deaths.

June 24:

Reporter found guilty of stock trading fraud.

July 6:

The Icon of Krakow is stolen.

August 17:

"Franco" blows up several buildings in Italy.

September 28:

Mannheim Mayhem Squad claims responsibility for popcorn-stand bomb in Köln.

October 23:

New York bar indicts 9 lawyers on corruption charges.

1986

January 24:

Voyager 2 returns closeup pictures of Uranus and its moons.

January 28:

Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after lift-off, killing the entire crew.

February 12:

Soviets launch Mir space station into orbit.

March 7:

Deepstar emerald is stolen from the Museum of Antiquities in Rome.

July 17:

Mannheim Mayhem Squad blow up the boyhood home of Paul McCartney.

July 24:

Top Secret 'Star Wars' plans connected to murder of Terrance Wilkins of Enfield Systems. Todd Enfield accused by many, but never charged with any crime.

November 18:

Van Der Velde diamond stolen in Amsterdam.

1987

January 20:

Enfield Systems Aztec cruise missile recovered from Calderone Bolivian drug family.

April 8:

Mannheim Mayhem Squad blows up two French TV stations.

April 11:

Soviets dock Kvant research module to Mir space station.

August 27:

Jane's Space Flight Review says that NASA has "lost the will to fly".

October 19:

"Black Monday" - Dow Jones plummets 508.32 points in record plunge.

November 9:

Soviets dock second Kvant research module with Mir space station.

November 16:

US air traffic controllers unionize, despite Presidential threats.

November 29:

Delta Airlines flight 67 crashes outside of Logan Airport in Boston, killing 134.

December 1:

Lufthansa flight 910 collides with a private plane over Manhattan, killing 110.

December 12:

Das Grüne Mädchen emerald stolen.

December 24:

Calderone Bolivian drug clan flood streets of New York with cheap cocaine.

1988

January 21:

Delta Airlines flight 227 crashes in Atlanta from wind shear, killing 201.

January 24:

US air traffic controllers protest "impossible load" on system.

February 4:

Enfield Systems taken over in a hostile buyout by an international conglomerate. Owner and founder Todd Enfield is forced out of control.

March 1:

Dow Jones drops 710.43 points in one session after a week of record gains.

May 29:

The Bradford River serial killer is caught after claiming his eighteenth victim.

June 24:

US launches space shuttle Atlantis into orbit. Mission STS-26 is the first since the Challenger accident in 1986.

June 25:

Soviets dock third Kvant research module with Mir space station.

June 30:

Baron Otto von Freiburg dies of a heart attack.

July 16:

The third stage of the Ariane IV launcher carrying the Indonesian Palapa-B2 satellite explodes just before reaching orbit.

July 29:

DEA agents uncover cache of $3,000,000 in uncut heroin.

August 4:

Pakistan detonates its first atomic bomb.

August 12:

Air traffic controller's union threatens a strike unless demands are met. The President threatens to fire the controllers.

September 12:

Mannheim Mayhem Squad attempts to kidnap Pope John Paul II.

October 1:

STS-27 Discovery shuttle launched on a secret DoD mission. A broken research satellite is retrieved from orbit.

October 31:

Halloween Concorde flight is hijacked by the Mannheim Mayhem Squad; the Eye of Karnahan ruby is stolen by the terrorists. Two terrorists escape.

October 31:

"Franco" blows up European Space Agency offices in Paris. 12 dead.

November 15:

US presidential election results in first Democratic President in eight years.

November 22:

IBM announces formulation of first practical room-temperature superconductor.

December 15:

US accuses Soviets of destroying Skywatch reconnaissance satellite.

1989

January 17:

STS-28 Atlantis shuttle launched to deploy three satellites and do scientific research.

January 18:

Atlantis collides with object in orbit and makes a spectacular but safe landing.

January 20:

New US President sworn into office.

January 22:

Air traffic controllers go out on strike, protesting the "sad state of the airways".

January 27:

Soviets dock fourth Kvant research module with Mir space station.

February 7:

Short in amplifiers of heavy metal group Leadheads causes explosion in Superdome concert, killing 12, injuring 122.

February 18:

Brazil detonates its first atomic bomb.

March 12:

Major fire erupts in warehouse district of Dresden.

March 12:

Gun battle in Washington D.C. wounds 6.

March 13:

Plane explodes in Manila terminal, killing 132.

March 14:

An assassin misses the President with four shots.

March 28:

STS-29 Discovery shuttle launched, placing the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit.

April 20:

Mannheim Mayhem Squad captures Rotstein Castle, holding US and Soviet arms negotiators hostage.

May 2:

Terrorist's body found in research stacks of Berlin library.

May 4:

Cruise ship Tropical Princess sinks after striking a mine in the Indian Ocean.