Feb 12 Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron

Feb 14 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1

Feb 09 First flight of Boeing 727 jet

Feb 08 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 01 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda

Feb 05 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars

Feb 11 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me"

Feb 11 Near Kapuskasing Ontarioa shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded0

Feb 14 First successful kidney transplant

Feb 05 Soviet lunar probe failure

Feb 25 Beatles release their first single in US "Please Please Me"

Feb 01 Neil Young performs his first professional date at a Winnipeg country club, at age 17.

Feb 22 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)

Feb 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 19 USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba

Feb 09 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")

Feb 15 First US female world figure skating champion (Tenley Albright)

Feb 16 Please, Please Me, by The Beatles, moves to #1 on the British pop music charts, just a month after it was released.

Feb 19 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize

Feb 27 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000

Feb 16 C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down

Feb 10 US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz

Apr 07 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic

Apr 05 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)

Apr 11 John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty

Apr 19 "Hot Spot" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway

Apr 21 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for first time

Apr 12 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK

Apr 01 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike

Apr 21 The Beatles and The Rolling Stones met for the first time at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England

Apr 10 Parliament passes Food and Drugs Act, getting more control over sale of drugs.

Apr 05 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa

Apr 01 Soap operas "General Hospital" &"The Doctors" premier on TV

Apr 08 Soap operas "General Hospital" &"The Doctors" premier on TV

Apr 09 Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen (posthumously)

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