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*[[1960]] - [[Penguin Books]] is found not guilty of [[obscenity]] in the ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' case *[[1960]] - [[Penguin Books]] is found not guilty of [[obscenity]] in the ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' case
-*[[1963]] - [[South Vietnam]]ese President [[Ngo Dinh Diem|Ngô Ðình Diệm]] is assassinated following a military [[coup]].  
-*[[1964]] - [[List of kings of Saudi Arabia|King]] [[Saud of Saudi Arabia|Saud]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] was deposed by a family [[coup]], and replaced by his half-brother [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia|King Faisal]].  
-*[[1965]] - [[Norman Morrison]], a 31-year-old [[Quaker]], sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to [[the Pentagon]] to protest the use of [[napalm]] in the Vietnam war. 
-*[[1966]] - The [[Cuban Adjustment Act]] enters force, allowing 123,000 [[Cuba]]ns the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the [[United States]].  
-*[[1967]] - [[Vietnam War]]: US President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.  
-*[[1973]] - The [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] and the [[Communist Party of India]] forms a 'United Front' in the state of [[Tripura]]. 
-*[[1974]] - 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]] burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started. 
-*[[1976]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1976]]: [[Jimmy Carter]] defeats [[Gerald R. Ford]] for the [[President of the United States|US presidency]], becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since [[Reconstruction]]. 
-*[[1981]] - [[Antigua and Barbuda]] become independent from the United Kingdom. 
-*[[1982]] - [[Channel 4]] in the United Kingdom was launched. 
-*[[1983]] - U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] signs a bill creating [[Martin Luther King Day]], currently the only national holiday honoring an individual American.  
-*[[1984]] - [[Capital punishment]]: [[Velma Barfield]] becomes the first woman executed in the [[United States]] since [[1962]]. 
-*[[1988]] - The [[Morris worm]], the first [[internet]]-distributed [[computer worm]] to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. 
-*[[1991]] - [[Patriarch Bartholomew I|Bartholomew I]] becomes the [[Patriarch of Constantinople]].  
-*[[1995]] - Former [[South Africa]]n defence minister General [[Magnus Malan]] and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in [[1987]], (all the accused are later acquitted). 
-*[[2000]] - The first crew arrives at the [[International Space Station]]. 
== Births == == Births ==

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