At the age of 63

• 11-September-2005 : Japan general election, 2005: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the Liberal Democratic Party are returned to power.
• 08-October-2004 : Martha Stewart begins serving a 55month sentence for insider trading at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia.
• 12-August-2004 : Singapore's prime minister Goh Chok Tong hands over his position to Lee Hsien Loong.
• 13-October-1981 : James Tobin wins the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobelemory of Alfred Nobel
• 02-April-1981 : Tony Benn announces that he will challenge Denis Healey for the Deputy Leadership of the British Labour Party.
• 17-May-1977 : The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the elections in Israel.
• 20-January-1977 : Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald Ford as the 39th President of the United States.
• 19-January-1977 : U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose").
• 20-July-1967 : Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first ViareggioViareggioVersile prize.
• 23-June-1967 : Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 33day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/diary/1967/670623.asp