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John Patrick Daly is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions. Daly is known primarily for his driving distance off the tee, his non-country-club appe…
John Daly, American golfer
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, formerly the Second Artillery Corps, is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th …
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (The known as the 2nd Artillery Corps) is founded.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's …
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect…
This article contains two versions of the list of kings of Burundi, the traditional version before 1680 and the modern genealogy. The Kingdom of Burundi was ruled by sovereigns, ti…
King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby. It was supported by the Chicago-based Coo…
The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many…
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Unio…
Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the…
Human spaceflight is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard crew. Spacecraft can also be remote…
Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting…
Todd Anthony Shaw, known professionally as Too Short, is an American rapper. A pioneer of West Coast hip-hop, Shaw was among the first acts to receive recognition in the genre duri…
Too Short, American rapper, producer and actor
Christian Tetzlaff is a German violinist who has performed internationally, with a focus on chamber music.
Christian Tetzlaff, German violinist
Jeff Randall Brown is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from the mid-1980s to late 1990s. He was selected to play …
Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
The Hough riots were riots in the predominantly African-American community of Hough in Cleveland, Ohio, United States which took place from July 18 to 23, 1966. During the riots, f…
A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard…
Michael Pelkey is considered one of the first individuals to influence the mass practice of BASE jumping as a sport, together with fellow skydiver Brian Schubert. Pelkey and Schube…
Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones.…
The England national football team have represented England in men's international football since the first international match in 1872. They are governed by The Football Associati…
England defeats West Germany to win the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium 4–2 after extra time.
Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer who committed the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, one of the first mass shootings in modern American history to receiv…
Charles Whitman kills 15 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by CCP …
Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
David Lee Meggett is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. A return specialist for most of his care…
Dave Meggett, American football player and coach
Olaf Thon is a German former professional football player and coach.
Olaf Thon, German footballer and manager
Belinda Caroline Stronach is a Canadian businesswoman and former politician. She served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2004 to 2008, initially as a Conservative and later as a…
Belinda Stronach, Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, and politician
Shawn Drover is a Canadian drummer, best known for his work with the American heavy metal band Megadeth. He uses Sabian cymbals and Yamaha drums, Pro-mark drum sticks, Toca Percuss…
Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer
The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolition in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural…
A group of red guards at Experimental High in Beijing, including Deng Rong and Liu Pingping, daughters of Deng…
The Heron Road Workers Memorial Bridge is a bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It connects Baseline Road to Heron Road and allows east–west traffic to cross both the Rideau River a…
The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both…
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Repr…
Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet…
The Battle of Long Tan took place in a rubber plantation near Long Tân, in Phước Tuy Province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. The action was fought between Viet Cong (VC) a…
Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes…
The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It was founded in 1966 through the merge…
Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of…