Aug 01 Race riot in Jersey City NJ

Aug 02 Race riot in Jersey City NJ

Aug 06 Sir Cedric Hardwicke actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71

Aug 29 USS Boxer and two LSD's arrived off the coast of Hispaniola to give medical aid and helicopter evacuation services to people in areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic badly damaged by Hurricane Cleo.

Aug 01 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" single goes to #1 spot on the charts

Aug 05 US begins bombing North Vietnam

Aug 15 Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill

Aug 01 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it begins in earnest

Aug 12 Race riot in Elizabeth NJ

Aug 11 Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens in NYC

Aug 28 Race riot in Philadelphia

Aug 26 LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ

Aug 04 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi

Aug 21 Canadian Bette Singer dives a record-setting 307 feet into Bahaman waters.

Aug 28 Beatlemania is in full swing as The Beatles grace the cover of LIFE magazine.

Aug 02 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it starts

Aug 11 Race riot in Paterson NJ

Aug 20 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act (totaling nearly $1 billion)

Aug 02 US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin

Aug 23 Footbridge collapses over river gorge in Venezuela, and 29 people fall to their deaths in rapids below.

Aug 01 Jack Kirkwood actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69

Oct 10 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo

Oct 16 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power

Oct 15 Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph

Oct 15 Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev

Oct 25 Eric Cooke, the "Moonstruck Murderer," is hanged in Perth for multiple killings.

Oct 31 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks

Oct 24 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

Oct 24 The U.S.S.R. invades Hungary.

Oct 04 3 cars of a commuter train derail in South Africa killing 81

Oct 12 Launch of Voskhod 1, First 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov)

Oct 20 Herbert Hoover, former U.S. president, dies.

Oct 25 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety

Oct 01 Free Speech Movement launched at U of California, Berkley

Oct 29 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next Page »