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 * 1964 The U.S. headquarters in Saigon is hit by a bomb killing two officers.
 * 1966 A Soviet research vehicle soft-lands on the moon.
 * 1967 The Greek Junta frees ex-Premier Papandreou.
 * 1968 The first pictures of an Earth-rise over the moon are seen as the crew of Apollo 8 orbits the moon.
 * 1970 Nine GIs are killed and nine are wounded by friendly fire in Vietnam.
 * 1972 Hanoi bars all peace talks with the United States until U.S. air raids over North Vietnam stop.
 * 1974 Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, destroying more than 70 percent of the city's buildings, including 80 percent of its houses.
 * 1974 An oil tanker's spill pollutes 1,600 square miles of Japan's Inland Sea.
 * 2005 Chad declares a state of war against Sudan in the wake of the Dec. 18 attack on the town of Adre, in which approximately 100 people were killed.