1960 – New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits a 643-foot home run over the right field roof in Detroit
1961 – The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
1961 – Mickey Mantle becomes the seventh player to hit home run number 400
1962 – KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 – Controversial TV drama “Born Innocent” premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home
1977 – Susan Perkins (Ohio) is crowned the 50th Miss America 1978
1985 – U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can’t be forcibly returned to parents’ country if it’s deemed “not in the best interests” of underage defectors