Aug 28 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"

Aug 02 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m

Aug 17 Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr

Aug 12 Tim D.was born this day in Calgary

Aug 17 E German border guards shot &kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector

Aug 17 Navy's first hydrofoil patrol craft, USS High Point (PCH-1) launched at Seattle, WA

Aug 05 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illigally leaving South Africa

Aug 05 Nelson Mandella arrested and then imprisoned

Aug 06 Jamaica gains independent from Britain

Aug 06 Jamaica gains independence from Britain

Aug 31 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain

Oct 28 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis

Oct 08 Algeria admitted as 109th member of the UN

Oct 15 Byron R White appointed to the Supreme Court

Oct 25 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature

Oct 18 Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA

Oct 15 Amnesty International formed in London

Oct 01 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977

Oct 01 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests

Oct 05 Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"

Oct 01 The Lucy Show premiers

Oct 24 U.S. Military Forces put on High Alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis,

Oct 08 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party

Oct 13 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen

Oct 01 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)

Oct 16 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba

Oct 22 Nelson Mandella goes on trial for treason in South Africa

Oct 26 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"

Oct 09 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m

Oct 11 The first appearance of a Gabor sister on the Merv Griffin Show

Oct 22 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis

Oct 23 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m

Oct 02 Frank Lovejoy actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48

Oct 11 Pope John XXIII opens Vatican council

Oct 22 Cuban Missile Crisis begins

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