Jun 12 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m

Jun 03 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130

Jun 21 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m

Jun 25 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5 to 4) that prayers in public schools violated the First Amendment to the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state.

Jun 07 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m

Jun 15 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes

Jun 01 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m

Dec 19 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Dec 15 Vaughn Meader's "The first Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 wks

Dec 17 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated

Dec 19 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission

Dec 23 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion

Dec 20 The Osmond brothers debut on the Andy Williams Show

Dec 14 Mariner 2 launched, makes first US visit to another planet (Venus)

Dec 09 Tanganyika becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth

Dec 09 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway

Dec 01 Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)

Dec 10 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years

Dec 16 Constitutional Monarchical Hindu State of Nep l adopts new constitution

Dec 06 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program

Dec 14 U.S. space probe Mariner 2 transmitted data from Venus. The spacecraft came within 22,000 miles of Venus and measured the temperature and other characteristics of the planet, and then radioed the data back to Earth.

Dec 22 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named

Dec 31 Katanga becomes part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Aug 14 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m

Aug 11 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3

Aug 05 First quasar located by radio

Aug 27 Mariner 2 launched; first probe to fly by Venus

Aug 18 Peter, Paul and Mary release their first hit "If I Had a Hammer"

Aug 15 Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia

Aug 11 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"

Aug 01 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m

Aug 28 Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid

Aug 14 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million

Aug 12 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15

Aug 14 French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel

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