Aug 02 Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club

Aug 24 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)

Aug 04 Spokane, Washington reaches 108 degrees Fahrenheit

Aug 05 Ice Harbor Dam, Washington reaches 118 degrees F (state record)

Aug 09 James B Parsons is first black appointed to Federal District Court

Aug 13 Border between east and west Berlin sealed off by East Germans

Aug 26 Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto

Aug 27 Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on "What's My Line"

Aug 30 The first Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons

Aug 23 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back

Aug 13 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)

Aug 21 Australian TV current affairs program Four Corners makes TV debut.

Aug 07 Russian Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2

Aug 10 England applies for membership in the European Common Market

Aug 02 St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto

Aug 17 Building of the Berlin Wall begins

Oct 10 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court

Oct 18 The birth of Wynton Marsalis, Jazz trumpeter

Oct 30 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square

Oct 01 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha

Oct 27 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN

Oct 24 Malta granted independence from Britain

Oct 01 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon

Oct 27 The first Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test

Oct 10 The entire population of Tristan de Cunha is evacuated, following a volcanic eruption on the South Atlantic island

Oct 01 Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs, last off of Tracy Stallard

Oct 11 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100 m

Oct 09 Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth

Oct 09 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)

Oct 17 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd

Oct 28 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets

Oct 17 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m

Oct 27 American Basketball League starts play

Jul 24 A US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba

Jul 13 Arnold Schoenberg Austrian-US composer (Second Quartet), dies at 86

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