Person report

★01 Jul 1948
The first flight departed New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, then known as New York International Airport.

★03 Oct 1951
In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the National League pennant.

★18 Jan 1958
Black Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey.

★16 Jun 1958
Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 were executed following secret trials.

★29 Aug 1959
Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.

★13 Jan 1963
Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio, was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.

★28 Feb 1963
24th ward alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was murdered in his office, the last elected official assassinated in Chicago to date.

★30 May 1963
Buddhist crisis: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration against President Ngô Đình Diệm.

★20 Jul 1969
The Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon six-and-a-half hours later.

★18 Mar 1970
United States postal workers began an eight-day strike after Congress raised its own wages by 41% but raised the wages of postal workers by only 4%.

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