Three B-52s become the first aircraft to circle the globe non-stop, Willie O'Ree breaks the NHL's color barrier, "The Jeffersons" premieres, and Jim Thorpe gets his Olympic medals back, all on this day.
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1997: Politician Paul Tsongas, a U.S. senator and representative from Massachusetts and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 presidential election, dies of pneumonia and liver failure at the age of 55 in Lowell, Mass.