Jul 29 J Schubart discovers asteroid #2000 Herschel

Jul 16 205,000 (sports attendance record) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer

Jul 12 Echo I, first passive satellite launched

Jul 31 Malayan Emergency ends

Jul 13 Democratic Natl convention nominates Sen John F Kennedy for president

Jul 30 The first AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)

Jul 11 Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta and Dahomey all become independent

Jul 06 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC

Jul 01 Ghana becomes a republic

Mar 05 Elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army.

Mar 07 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR

Mar 21 In the black township of Sharpeville in Transvaal, South Africa, Afrikaner police open fire on a group of peaceful black demonstrators, killing sixty-nine people and wounding nearly two hundred in a hail of sub-machine gunfire.

Mar 28 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)

Mar 07 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances

Mar 14 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA

Mar 15 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)

Mar 07 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances

Mar 26 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem

Mar 26 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami

Mar 06 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament

Mar 29 Launch of first fully integrated Fleet Ballistic Missile from USS Observation Island

Mar 28 Pope John raises the first Japanese, first African & first Filipino cardinal

Mar 05 World Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)

Mar 31 Gore Vidal's "Best Man", premieres in New York NY

Mar 23 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit

Mar 10 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing

Mar 15 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated

Mar 07 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship

Mar 07 Dutch Builders strike for CLA

Mar 22 Patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes

Mar 25 Italian government Tambroni forms

Mar 07 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy

Mar 25 The first guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)

Mar 07 The birth of Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player

Mar 11 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus

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