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** After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
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** Gymnasium ( Ages 12 – 15 ) After primary school, students attend the lower secondary school ( GYMNASIUM ) which has three grades.
** After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
** WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
** After Demirel becomes the president the acting prime minister of Turkey is Erdal İnönü of SHP for 40 days.
** After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
** After its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, the Stone of Scone resurfaces on the altar of Arbroath Abbey.
** Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
** WWII: After flying from Britain, 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
** After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
** After fourteen years, the last of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts is telecast by CBS.
** After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a public house in a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack, the " Birmingham Six " are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
** 1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting six days and leaving 26 dead.
** After a stroke, Pieter Willem Botha resigns his party's leadership and the presidency of South Africa.
** After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
** After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu, who flees his palace in a helicopter to escape inevitable execution after the palace was invaded by rioters.
** After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares its permanent neutrality.
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** The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks reach a successful conclusion after 7 years.
** Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.
** The Apollo 11 astronauts return from the first successful Moon landing, and are placed in biological isolation for several days, on the chance they may have brought back lunar germs.
** The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes ( although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production ).
** The Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled.
** Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
** The Sandinista National Liberation Front concludes a successful revolutionary campaign against the U. S. backed Somoza dictatorship and assumes power in Nicaragua.
** The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven.
** If the router was unable to establish a successful TCP session, then it ends up in the Active state.
** BGP FSM will try to restart another TCP session with the peer and, if successful, then it will send an Open message to the peer.
** The lifting of the Car d ’ Or on a paved area near the church of Saint Waltrude ; tradition holds that this operation must be successful for the city to prosper.
** Federico Faggin, having finished the design of the 4004, became leader of the project from January 1971 until its successful completion in April 1972, after it had been suspended – for lack of progress – for about seven months.
** November 23, 1983: Bob Paisley, best known for being one of the most successful managers in English football history whilst managing his only team Liverpool Football Club in the 1970s and 1980s.
** Grumman F6F Hellcat, an American World War II fighter aircraft, most successful naval aircraft in history
** December 23 – Joseph Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston carries out the first successful kidney transplant, between identical twins.
** 369 British bombers and five U. S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortresses make a very successful attack on the Dunlop Rubber factory at Montluçon, France, hitting every building and starting a large fire.
** 22 British Lancasters, mostly from No. 617 Squadron, make a successful precision attack on the Michelin tire factory at Clermont-Ferrand, France.
** 19 Lancasters ( 13 from No. 617 Squadron ) make a successful precision raid on the explosives factory at Bergerac, France.
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