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Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The prime minister of South Africa was the head of government in South Africa between 1910 and 1984.
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a…
Jarle Vespestad is a Norwegian jazz musician (percussion), the younger brother of jazz musician Liz Tove Vespestad, and a central member of Tord Gustavsen's projects.
Jarle Vespestad, Norwegian drummer
Kennedy John Victor, known professionally as Chiyaan Vikram, is an Indian actor and playback singer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. One of the highest paid actors, he is a…
Vikram, Indian actor and singer
The Communist Party of China (CPC), commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, …
The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a …
The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo or less often Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is…
Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the
The Surveyor program was a NASA program that, from June 1966 through January 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the…
Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U
Véronique Gens is a French operatic soprano. She has spent much of her career recording and performing Baroque music.
Véronique Gens, French soprano and actress
Paul Ronald Reiffel is an Australian cricket umpire and former cricketer who played in 35 Tests and 92 One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1992 to 1999. He was part of Australia's v…
Paul Reiffel, Australian cricketer and umpire
David John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist, specializing in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a professor of philosophy and neural …
David Chalmers, Australian philosopher and academic
David Robert Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was…
David Filo, American businessman, co-founded Yahoo!
Michael Robert "Mickey" Morandini, is an American former professional baseball second baseman and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Ch…
Mickey Morandini, American baseball player and manager
The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 5, 1966, intending to make a sol…
March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the "Century Series" of fighter aircraft for the…
An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no
Topeka is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Ka…
Topeka, Kansas, United States is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, exceeding US$200
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v
Joerg Deisinger is a German photographer, musician and the former bassist and a founding member of the German 1980s heavy metal band Bonfire.
Jörg Deisinger, German bass player
Lembit Oll was an Estonian chess grandmaster.
Lembit Oll, Estonian chess Grandmaster (died 1999)
Pierre Brassard is a French-Canadian actor, comedian, television personality, and radio broadcaster. He is associated with CKOI-FM in Montreal and known for his phone call hoaxes.
Pierre Brassard, Canadian comedian and actor
Alessandro "Billy" Costacurta is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer, coach, and manager
David Usher is a Canadian musician, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and activist best known as the front man for the band Moist. He has also released a number of solo albums.…
David Usher, English-Canadian singer-songwriter
Diego Dominguez is a former rugby union fly-half. After playing a couple of matches for Argentina, he spent the vast majority of his career with the Italy national rugby union team…
Diego Domínguez, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
Buddhism in Vietnam, as practiced by the Vietnamese people, is a form of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the second largest religion in Vietnam. According to the Vietnamese gov…
Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Budd