Jan 23 Venezuela adopts constitution

Jan 05 The television series Mr. Ed debuts, the first of what would be six seasons of mirth and mayhem centered around a horse that talked but only to his owner, Wilbur Post.

Jan 21 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria

Jan 30 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC

Feb 01 Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies

Feb 06 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC

Feb 15 Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash

Feb 12 First spacecraft to the planet Venus launched

Feb 04 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure

Feb 01 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive

Feb 21 Gabon adopts constitution

Feb 07 Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"

Feb 14 Element 103, Lawrencium, first produced in Berkeley CA

Feb 21 Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "Die Physiker," premieres in Zürich

Feb 01 A full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful

Feb 16 US satellite Explorer 9 is launched

Feb 15 Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever

Feb 16 First all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island VA

Feb 11 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black

Feb 09 Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo

Feb 11 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem

Feb 24 Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit

Feb 13 Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Brothers Records

Feb 19 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"

Feb 16 China uses it's first nuclear reactor

Feb 28 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor

Feb 13 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus

Feb 21 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km

Feb 18 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater

Feb 02 Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam

Feb 03 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))

Feb 10 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power

Feb 26 Mohammed V, King of Morocco, dies.

Feb 12 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus

Apr 09 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236

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