Sep 24 The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)

Sep 11 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome

Sep 26 First of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)

Sep 09 The birth of Hugh Grant, Britsh actor

Sep 13 Payola where radio stations would play selected songs in exchange for gifts and/or cash is banned by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Sep 30 Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)

Sep 24 The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise, is launched.

Sep 24 Launch of the USS Enterprise, the worlds first nuclear powered aircraft carrier

Sep 20 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations)

Sep 05 Cassius Clay captures the olympic light heavyweight gold medal

Sep 22 Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day)

Sep 30 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"

Sep 26 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)

Sep 24 Internationl Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence

Feb 26 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating

Feb 08 Congress opens hearings looking into payola

Feb 28 8th winter Olympics games close at Squaw Valley CA

Feb 18 U.S. Vice President Nixon opens the Eighth Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, CA.

Feb 28 US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4

Feb 21 Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba

Feb 19 Protest strike in Poznan Poland

Feb 01 4 students stage first civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth

Feb 29 JFK makes "missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue

Feb 29 Hugh Hefner opens the first Playboy Club in Chicago.

Feb 13 France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria

Feb 11 Jack Paar walks off his TV show

Feb 26 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion

Feb 16 The nuclear powered submarine 'Triton' sets off on its round the world underwater voyage

Feb 14 Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan

Feb 01 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender

Feb 19 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts

Feb 27 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal

Feb 07 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea

Feb 12 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers

Feb 13 France enters the nuclear era when it explodes its first atomic bomb.

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