Apr 24 Frank Overton actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48

Apr 04 Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station

Apr 05 Philadelphia '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds

Apr 03 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn NY (PBS) begins broadcasting

Apr 17 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20

Apr 18 Manitoba imposes 5% sales tax, effective June 1.

Apr 21 Dodgers first rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)

Apr 29 Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"

Apr 06 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1804 Chebotarev

Apr 09 First Boeing 737 rolls out

Apr 09 Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down

Apr 24 Vladimir Komarov cosmonaut is first to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1

Nov 13 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)

Nov 06 Helicopter from USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) rescues 37-man crew of Liberian freighter Royal Fortunes aground on reef in Tonkin Gulf

Nov 30 Kuria Muria islands ceded by Britain to Oman

Nov 29 US Secretary of Defense McNamara becomes President of the World Bank

Nov 30 In Albania a 6.5 quake centered centered along the Albania-Yugoslavia border in the vicinity of Debar, Yugoslavia, and Shupenze, Albania. Eighteen people were killed, 204 injured

Nov 22 Boris Becker (tennis youngest Wimbledon Men's Champ. [17 years old])

Nov 27 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

Nov 17 Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names

Nov 06 US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9

Nov 15 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km

Nov 07 LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Nov 16 Canadian Pacific begins testing Canada's first remote-controlled mid-train diesel locomotives in regular freight service, using new "Robot" radio-command system.

Nov 22 UN Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land

Nov 30 People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain

Nov 22 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York

Nov 04 Landing craft from USS Navarro (APA-215) rescue 43 men from British SS Habib Marikar aground on a reef at Lincoln Island in the Tonkin Gulf.

Nov 18 British government devalues œ from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40

Nov 08 Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London

Nov 22 Boris Becker (tennis: youngest Wimbledon Men's Champ. [17 years old])

Nov 25 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time

Nov 17 Surveyor 6 becomes first man-made object to lift off the Moon

Nov 09 First unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module

Nov 30 Julie Nixon andDavid Eisenhower announce their engagement

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