* 1950 Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
* 1950 Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
* 1950 White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
* 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
* 1953 KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
* 1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
* 1955 Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in NYC
* 1955 NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
* 1955 UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics
* 1956 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ
* 1961 PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
* 1961 Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in NYC
* 1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
* 1962 Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World
* 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1963 "Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances
* 1963 2 high-speed commuter trains collided with a derailed freight
* 1963 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
* 1964 "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs
* 1964 Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
* 1965 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
* 1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
* 1965 Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
* 1965 Willie Mays named NL MVP
* 1966 "Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs
* 1966 Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
* 1967 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
* 1967 Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
* 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
* 1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
* 1971 David Storey's "Changing Room," premieres in London
* 1971 John List kills family & moves to Colorado
* 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1973 Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
* 1973 Govt De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
* 1973 Ringo releases "Ringo" album
* 1976 Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
* 1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
* 1977 Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP
* 1978 NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
* 1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
* 1980 Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
* 1982 Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously
* 1982 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
* 1983 Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
* 1983 Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
* 1984 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B
* 1984 Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
* 1984 Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43
* 1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
* 1985 "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
* 1985 Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion
* 1985 Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba
* 1985 Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
* 1986 Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
* 1986 Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
* 1988 "Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 perfs
* 1988 MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)
* 1989 East Berlin opens its borders
* 1990 Tanzania govt of Malecela forms
* 1991 Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts
* 1992 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI)
* 1992 Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco"
* 1993 "Cinderella" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances
* 1993 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
* 1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
* 1995 "Danny Gans on Broadway" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC
* 1997 "Cherry Orchard," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
* 1997 "Scarlet Pimpernel," opens at Minskoff Theater NYC
* 1997 Energizer Senior Golf Tour Championship
* 1997 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
* 1997 Toray Japan Queens Cup
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