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Mon 1 |
Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle Québec
Canada) |
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Tue 2 |
"Sound Of Music" opens |
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Wed 3 |
Temptations' My Girl reaches #1 |
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Wed 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
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Wed 3 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR |
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Fri 5 |
Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
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Sat 6 |
1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford |
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Sun 7 |
Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma |
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Mon 8 |
1st US combat forces arrive in South Vietnam
(3,500 Marines) |
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Sat 13 |
Beatles'
Eight Days a Week
single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2
weeks |
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Sat 13 |
Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds |
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Sun 14 |
Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West
Germany |
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Mon 15 |
T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC |
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Mon 15 |
LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote |
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Wed 17 |
Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to
You" (Help) |
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Thu 18 |
Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination |
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Thu 18 |
USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20
minutes) |
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Fri 19 |
Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania |
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Sun 21 |
Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL |
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Sun 21 |
US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact |
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Mon 22 |
US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the
Vietcong |
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Tue 23 |
Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young) |
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Tue 23 |
Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed |
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Wed 24 |
US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus |
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Thu 25 |
Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in
Montgomery AL |
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Thu 25 |
West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution |
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Wed 31 |
US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam |
