•1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate’s longest speech on record (150,000 words)
•1936 1st 50 KW U.S. radio station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
•1965 Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
•1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment
•1967 Israel wins 6-day war
•1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
•1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
•1991 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
•1993 Nigeria’s most successful and fairest election was held raising hopes for world-class democracy. Unfortunately the results of this election was annulled at a later date by the military Head of State, General Babaginda, sparking protests and riots.
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