Jan 11 Mandela leaves South Africa, travels to Ethiopia, Algeria &England

Jan 26 US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mile (37,000-km)

Jan 18 Southern University closed due to demonstrations

Feb 05 HSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial.

Feb 27 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, first US killed

Feb 10 Captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the U.S.S.R. in exchange for a Soviet spy held by the U.S.

Feb 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 08 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 24 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea

Feb 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 07 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba

Feb 28 Rae Dawn Chong wasborn at Edmonton Alberta, daughter of actor Tommy Chong. Chong, she appeared in the film Quest for Fire

Feb 07 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298

Feb 21 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands

Feb 20 John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven.

Feb 26 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation

Feb 05 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º

Feb 14 Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV

Feb 03 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs

Feb 25 India Congress Party wins elections

Feb 11 Nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon

Feb 28 The birth of Rae Dawn Chong, Actress

Feb 12 Bus boycott starts in Macon GA

Feb 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 20 John Glenn, the American astronaut, orbits the Earth three times

Feb 04 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles

Feb 25 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands

Feb 18 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war

Feb 05 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed

Feb 05 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence

Feb 02 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Feb 09 Jamaica signs agreement to become independent

Feb 04 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game

Feb 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 09 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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