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Tue 1 |
ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign |
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Tue 1 |
Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros |
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Wed 2 |
Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed |
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Thu 3 |
Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at
Berkeley |
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Thu 3 |
"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV |
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Fri 4 |
Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album |
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Fri 4 |
Baseball approves a free-agent draft |
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Fri 4 |
Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes |
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Mon 7 |
George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to
Harrisongs |
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Sat 12 |
Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes |
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Sun 13 |
Explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border |
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Tue 15 |
Canada adopts maple leaf flag |
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Tue 15 |
1st time 4 people in space |
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Tue 15 |
American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded |
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Wed 16 |
US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
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Fri 18 |
During services held for Sam Cooke, fans caused damage to Funeral
Home |
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Fri 18 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
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Sun 20 |
Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
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Tue 22 |
Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) |
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Fri 25 |
"Goldfinger" premieres in US |
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Fri 25 |
George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female
Beatle fans |
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Sat 26 |
Beatles' I Feel Fine
single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks |
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Sat 26 |
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship
game |
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Sun 27 |
Cleveland Browns beat Baltimore Colts 27-0 in NFL championship
game |
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Mon 28 |
Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago" begins |
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Thu 31 |
Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN |
