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- 1950 β The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- 1952 β NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.[8]
- 1953 β Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
- 1954 β The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.[9]
- 1957 β Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
- 1960 β The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country’s central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
- 1967 β Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California’s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.[10]
- 1967 β The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
- 1969 β USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people.[11]
- 1972 β Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
- 1973 β Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
- 1993 β In Poland’s worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of RΓΌgen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
- 2000 β A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
- 2004 β The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called “five cross flag”, is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
- 2010 β Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
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