Jun 14 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published

Jun 01 A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3ø K primordial background radiation

Jun 12 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"

Jun 03 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt &White)

Jun 28 The first US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson

Dec 16 W Somerset Maugham English author ("Of Human Bondage"), dies at 91

Dec 17 Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages ($0.50)

Dec 04 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)

Dec 15 Gemini 6 launched; makes first rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)

Dec 18 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission

Dec 26 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway

Dec 16 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit

Dec 15 In the first raid on a major North Vietnamese industrial target, U.S. Air Force planes destroy a thermal power plant at Uong Bi, l4 miles north of Haiphong. The plant reportedly supplied about 15 percent of North Vietnam's total electric power production.

Dec 06 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125

Dec 03 USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon

Dec 07 Chevrolet produced its three-millionth car for the year. It was the first time Chevrolet had produced an annual total surpassing three million vehicles.

Dec 22 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up

Dec 30 Ferdinand Marcos becomes president of the Philippines

Dec 01 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began

Dec 12 Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record

Dec 09 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium

Dec 29 Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"

Dec 26 Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline

Dec 04 Launch of Gemini 7 piloted by CDR James A. Lovell, USN. This flight consisted of 206 orbits at an altitude of 327 km and lasted 13 days and 18 hours. Recovery by HS-11 helicopters from USS Wasp (CVS-18)

Dec 15 3rd cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouths of Ganges River, Bangladesh

Dec 16 Gemini 6 returns to Earth

Dec 07 Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of the 2 churches in 1054

Aug 05 Linda McGill becomes first Australian woman to swim the English Channel.

Aug 30 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball

Aug 11 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC

Aug 09 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia

Aug 06 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights

Aug 15 US National Guard called out to deal with race riots in Los Angeles

Aug 05 Cook Islands in South Pacific granted internal self-government by New Zealand

Aug 31 House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop

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