Oct 20 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)

Oct 13 The world's first Russian three man spacecraft returns safely to Earth

Oct 14 Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 13 Voskhod 1 crew returns

Oct 26 Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show

Oct 01 SF cable cars declared a national landmark

Oct 08 Ringo Starr takes and passes his driving test

Oct 24 Northern Rhodesia becomes the Republic of Zambia

Oct 29 Town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee

Oct 05 SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated

Jul 25 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks

Jul 15 Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans

Jul 22 Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open

Jul 31 All-nuclear task force with USS Long Beach, USS Enterprise, and USS Bainbridge leaves Norfolk, VA to begin voyage, Operation Sea Orbit, to circle the globe without refueling. They returned on 3 October.

Jul 06 Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premiers in London

Jul 25 Race riot in Rochester NY

Jul 02 Glenn "Fireball" Roberts biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash

Jul 18 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)

Jul 17 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)

Jul 28 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures

Jul 26 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy

Jul 31 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon

Jul 27 Betty D, was born this day

Jul 06 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)

Jul 23 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage

Jul 02 Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act

Jul 26 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die

Jul 06 Nyasaland becomes the independent state of Malawi

Jul 20 The first surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"

Jul 31 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor

Jul 22 Four Navy Divers (LCDR Robert Thompson, MC; Gunners Mate First Class Lester Anderson, Chief Quartermaster Robert A. Barth, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning) submerge in Sealab I for 10 days at a depth of 192 feet, 39 miles off Hamilton, Bermuda. They surfaced on 31 July 1964.

Jul 02 Celia Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano

Mar 27 Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history

Mar 14 Jack Ruby found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death

Mar 24 Kennedy half-dollar issued

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