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Thu 1 |
Free Speech Movement launched at U of California, Berkley |
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Thu 1 |
SF cable cars declared a national landmark
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Fri 2 |
Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play
(Reds) |
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Sat 3 |
Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, & 29th in club's
history |
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Sun 4-7 |
Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & G |
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Sun 4 |
Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St Louis |
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Sun 4 |
Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against
Broncos |
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Sun 4 |
St Louis Cards clinch NL pennant |
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Wed 7 |
NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World
Series |
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Thu 8 |
Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test |
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Sat 10 |
18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2
at Toronto |
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Sat 10 |
18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo |
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Mon 12 |
Voskhod 1 launched: 1st flight with 3 cosmonauts. 1st time 3
people in space |
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Tue 13 |
Voskhod 1 crew returns |
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Wed 14 |
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts weds Shirley
Shepherd |
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Wed 14 |
Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize |
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Thu 15 |
Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev |
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Thu 15 |
St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in
61st World Series (NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16
World Series) |
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Thu 15 |
NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series |
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Thu 16 |
Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting |
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Thu 16 |
China becomes world's 5th nuclear power |
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Sat 17 |
Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra |
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Tue 20 |
Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested) |
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Wed 21 |
Abebe Bikila runs world/olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2) |
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Wed 21 |
Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta |
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Thu 22 |
EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on
to become The Who |
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Thu 22 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg
Miss |
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Thu 22 |
French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize |
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Fri 23 |
Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball |
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Sat 24 |
18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan |
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Sun 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
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Sun 25 |
Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a
safety |
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Mon 26 |
Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show |
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Tue 27 |
Singers Sonny & Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms |
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Thu 29 |
Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY |
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Fri 30 |
Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam |
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Sat 31 |
Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
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