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1968 - Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea.

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1970 - Australia's first amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (from California).

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1970 - US launches second generation weather satellite, ITOS 1.

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1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

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1971 - Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska, (north of Fairbanks) reaches a US record low temperature of -80 degrees F.

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1973 - US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War.

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1981 - First Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente, California).

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1982 - World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing two.

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1983 - Cerebral Palsy telethon raises US$14,700,000.

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1986 - First induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley).

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