Sep 12 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana kills 75

Sep 28 Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Phillipines)

Sep 18 "Get Smart" premiers

Sep 11 First elements of the First Cavalry Division, U.S. Army, with their helicopter and light observation aircraft, went ashore at Qui Nhon, South Vietnam, from Boxer in which they had been transported from Mayport, Fla., by way of the Suez Canal.

Sep 04 Albert Schweitzer, missionary-doctor, dies.

Sep 08 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana &Florida

Sep 28 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km

Sep 13 Willie Mays hits his 500th HR

Sep 09 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

Sep 15 "Lost in Space" premiers

Sep 14 The Television show "F-Troop" premiers

Sep 25 Beatle cartoon show begins in the US

Sep 11 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks

Sep 13 Today Show's first totally color broadcast

Sep 04 Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 &stays #1 for 3 weeks

Sep 02 The Beatles receive a gold record for the 45-rpm release of Help! (For our younger readers, 45-rpm is the speed that a hit single record revolves on the turntable of a record player.)

Sep 13 Beatles release "Yesterday"

Sep 21 O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest paracute jump (46,250')

Feb 07 US begins regular bombing & strafing of North Vietnam

Feb 23 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president

Feb 27 "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances

Feb 01 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news

Feb 04 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 26 Dutch Government of Marijnen falls

Feb 01 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam

Feb 13 Quebec Liquor Board Employees end 70-day strike. How dry they were in the province!!

Feb 21 Civil rights activist Malcolm X is assassinated at age 39 by Black Muslims in New York City.

Feb 15 Canada flies its new red and white Maple Leaf flag, retiring the Red Ensign.

Feb 24 East German President Ulbricht visits Egypt

Feb 12 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

Feb 13 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

Feb 27 Dutch Marijnen government resigns

Feb 13 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti

Feb 18 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain British Columbia

Feb 01 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL

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