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

Jun 26 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)

Jun 03 Seven helicopters of HS-4 from Yorktown rescued 53 merchant seamen from the British freighter Shun Lee which was breaking up on Pratas Reef, 500 miles northwest of Manila

Jun 03 Test launchings of Bullpup air-to-surface missiles from a Marine Corps HUS-1 helicopter were successfully completed at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River.

Jun 30 Za‹re (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium

Jun 01 Lester Patrick NHL coach/star, dies at 76

Jun 27 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass

Jun 26 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain

Jun 28 26.42 cm (10.40") of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)

Jun 15 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman

Jun 20 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France

Jun 08 First date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

Jun 06 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"

Jun 11 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)

Jun 30 Belgian Congo becomes an independent state

Jun 27 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia

Dec 19 Neil Sedaka’s Calendar Girl was released on RCA Victor Records

Dec 03 "Camelot" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway

Dec 19 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)

Dec 22 Helicopters of HS-3 and HU-2 from Valley Forge rescued 27 men from the oiler SS Pine Ridge as she was breaking up in heavy seas 100 miles off Cape Hatteras.

Dec 19 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight

Dec 10 The birth of Kenneth Branagh, British actor

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