Steve's 80th Birthday Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. 2008 - first black president
  2. 6. 1971 - this "World" opens in Orlando
  3. 12. 1984 - this phone system was broken up
  4. 13. 1991 - remains of 11 men and boys found in his Milwaukee apartment
  5. 14. 2012 - chose Paul Ryan as his running mate
  6. 17. 1954 - Landmark case _______ vs Board of Education of Topeka
  7. 19. 1988 - ran against Bush for president
  8. 20. 1966 - he changed his first name from Cassius to this
  9. 23. 1998 - she had an affair with Clinton
  10. 25. 1999 - doctor convicted of second-degree murder in assisted-suicide case
  11. 26. 1973 - he resigned as US Vice President
  12. 27. 1960 - his spy plan was shot down in Russia
  13. 35. 1948 - Indian pacifist protestor assassinated
  14. 38. 1951 - couple sentenced to death for spying for Russians
  15. 39. 1976 - Carter's VP
  16. 41. 2003 - final flight for this supersonic, high-end passenger jet
  17. 42. 1981 - first woman on Supreme Court
  18. 43. 2010 - Obama signs the _______ Care Act
  19. 46. 1944 - D-Day landing on this beach
  20. 47. 1956 - Egypt takes control of this canal
  21. 48. 2007 - Apple releases the first version of this
  22. 49. 1969 - Edward Kennedy left the scene of the accident here
  23. 50. 1982 - British and Argentia forces fight on these islands
  24. 52. 1987 - he ran the secret Iran-Contra operations
  25. 53. 1962 - first American to orbit Earth
  26. 54. 1970 - National Guard kill four students at this Ohio university
  27. 58. 1953 - General elected US President
  28. 60. 1985 - he becomes leader of USSR
  29. 61. 1975 - president escapes two assassination attempts
  30. 62. 1943 - Italian dictator deposed
  31. 65. 2013 - NSA contractor who leaked about survellience program
  32. 70. 2011 - Uprisings in the Middle East are dubbed the "Arab _____"
  33. 71. 1972 - Eleven athletes from here killed at Olympics
  34. 73. 1942 - US places 120,000 of them in internment centers
  35. 75. 2015 - he announes run for presidency of U.S.
  36. 76. 1963 - Ruby shot him
  37. 77. 1980 - actor elected President
  38. 78. 2018 - this team won their first Superbowl
  39. 80. 1993 - bill requiring background checks of prospective buyers signed into law
  40. 81. 1967 - first successful transplant of this organ
Down
  1. 1. 1959 - New president of Cuba
  2. 2. 1938 - His War of the Worlds scared America
  3. 4. 1964 - made first appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
  4. 5. 1961 - he becomes US President
  5. 7. 1939 - Germany invades this county and WWII begins
  6. 8. 1983 - U.S. and Caribbean allies invade this country
  7. 9. 2005 - devastating hurricane strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas
  8. 10. 1968 - Middle name of assassinated civil rights leader
  9. 11. 1977 - King of Rock and Roll dies
  10. 15. 2009 - "King of Pop" music dies
  11. 16. 1986 - major nuclear accident at this Soviet plant
  12. 18. 1989 - Chinese students taken over this square
  13. 21. 1965 - senior citizens' government medical assistance program begins
  14. 22. 2004 - he wins an unprecedented 6th consecutive Tour de France cycling title
  15. 24. 1994 - he flees policy in a white Ford Bronco
  16. 28. 1957 - Russians launch this first earth orbiting satellite
  17. 29. 1978 - Jim Jone's followers kill themselves here
  18. 30. 2001 - in response to 9/11, U.S. invades here
  19. 31. 1995 - he blew up Oklahoma City federal building
  20. 32. 1958 - he becomes premier of Soviet Union
  21. 33. 1945 - Second US atom bomb lands here
  22. 34. 2000 - Bush vs Gore requires recount in this state
  23. 36. 2002- Bush creates the Department of ______ Security
  24. 37. 1950 - this war begins in Asia
  25. 40. 1946 - location of war trials
  26. 44. 1997 - Princess killed in Paris car crash
  27. 45. 1949 - South Africa institutionalizes this segregation policy
  28. 51. 1979 - he takes over as leader of Iran
  29. 55. 2017 - film producer accused for three decades of sexual harassment
  30. 56. 1996 - appointed first female US Secretary of State
  31. 57. 1940 - becomes Britain's prime minister
  32. 59. 2006 - this company buys YouTube for 1.6 Billion
  33. 63. 1952 - He starred in Singin' in the Rain
  34. 64. 1974 - kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
  35. 66. 1990 - he becomes Poland's president
  36. 67. 2016 - UK vote to leave EU is called _____
  37. 68. 1992 - runs as independent against Bush and Clinton
  38. 69. 1947 - first person to break the sound barrier
  39. 72. 1941 - Attack here brings US into WWII
  40. 74. 1955 - She wouldn't set at the back of the bus
  41. 79. 2014 - thousands of African die in outbreak of this disease