At the age of 39

• 14-November-1982 : The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.
• 28-May-1978 : Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall.
• 03-June-1968 : Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol as he enters his studio, wounding him.
• 30-November-1967 : Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto founds the Pakistan People's Party and becomes its first chairman. Today it is one of the major political parties in Pakistan (alongside the Pakistan ''Muslim League'') that is broken into many factions, bearing the same name under different leaders, such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP).
• 15-October-1966 : ABC-TV telecasts a highlyhighlyacclaimed 9090minute television adaptation of the musical ''Brigadoon'', starring Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, and Sally Ann Howes. It wins many Emmy Awards and inaugurates a shortshortlived series of special television adaptations of famous Broadway musicals on ABC. Goulet stars in all but one of these specials.
• 28-May-1966 : Fidel Castro delcares martial law in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.
• 06-February-1966 : Fidel Castro blames China for spreading antiantiSoviet propaganda among Cuban soldiers.
• 07-December-1962 : Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.
• 19-December-1957 : Meredith Willson's classic musical ''The Music Man'', starring Robert Preston, debuts on Broadway.
• 24-July-1956 : At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together (their act started on July 25, 1946).