Dec 20 Berlin Wall opens for first time to West Berliners

Dec 10 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on the Andy Williams Show

Aug 28 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens

Aug 28 Over 200,000 people march through Washington in a civil rights demonstration led by Rv. Martin Luther King

Aug 28 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial

Aug 03 Allan Sherman releases hit "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"

Aug 21 Martial law declared in S Vietnam

Aug 25 Paul McCartney is fined œ31 & 1 yr suspended license for speeding

Aug 23 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"

Aug 13 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum

Aug 05 World auto speed record set at 407.45 MPH

Aug 30 The Hot Line phone linking the White House with the Kremlin was installed.

Aug 08 The Great Train Robbery, in which 2.5 million pounds are stolen

Aug 08 Great Train Robbery in England, 2.6 million pounds ($7.3 million)

Aug 18 James Meredith became first black graduate from U of Mississippi

Aug 28 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC

Aug 28 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his I Have a Dream speech before an audience of 250,000 near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

Aug 01 The Beatles Book is sold out on its first day of sale

Aug 21 Martial law imposed in South Vietnam

Aug 03 Great Train Robbery in Britain

Aug 03 Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool

Aug 22 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)

Aug 05 Britain, US & Russia sign nuclear test ban treaty

Aug 18 Andy Morales was born

Aug 23 Beatles release "She Loves You" in the UK

Aug 16 Independence is restored to Dominican Republic

Aug 30 Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow went begins

Aug 05 Nuclear Test Ban Agreement signed, allowing nuclear weapon to only be tested underground

Aug 24 John Pennel is first to pole-vault 17'

Oct 11 Navy medical team from Norfolk, VA begins massive inoculation program to safeguard against outbreak of typhoid in the wake of Hurricane Flora.

Oct 13 "Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium

Oct 06 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"

Oct 08 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya

Oct 07 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190

Oct 31 Ed Sullivan witnesses the Beatles and their fans at London Airport

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