Feb 22 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, first 2-dog crew

Feb 23 Aldo Moro forms Italian government

Feb 27 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of USSR

Feb 16 End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK

Feb 03 First soft landing on the Moon by spacecraft Luna 9

Feb 16 Bob Cowper makes 307 vs England at the MCG, 727 minute s, 20 fours

Feb 16 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria

Feb 27 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford Great Britain

Feb 09 Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points

Feb 05 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island

Feb 03 The first operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)

Feb 10 Harmel government in Belgium resigns

Feb 27 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US

Feb 09 The National Hockey League announces it is doubling in size with a new West Division and six new teams

Feb 01 Buster Keaton, famous comic film star, dies at age 69.

Feb 21 Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution

Feb 14 Australia introduces first decimal currency postage stamps

Feb 03 Soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

Apr 10 River Patrol Boats of River Patrol Force commenced operations on inland waters of South Vietnam

Apr 09 OAO 1, the first orbiting astronomical observatory, launched

Apr 18 Bill Russell became first black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)

Apr 04 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland

Apr 05 WTVX TV channel 34 in Fort Pierce-Vero Beach FL (IND) 1st broadcast

Apr 02 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes spacecraft to orbit Moon

Apr 03 Luna 10 orbits Moon

Apr 02 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes first spacecraft to orbit Moon

Apr 04 Canada starts five-year, $350,000 project to help increase wheat production in Kenya; an environmental fiasco.

Apr 06 Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 announces plans to promote bilingualism in the public service. (very expensive)

Apr 02 Leading Liberal Andrew Peacock enters Australian federal parliament, winning Sir Robert Menzies' old seat of Kooyong in a by-election;

Apr 06 Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka &India

Apr 03 Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus

Apr 09 Anaheim Stadium for the Calif Angels opens

Apr 21 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica

Apr 16 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain

Apr 13 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s

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