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

Nov 27 President of France, General Charles de Gaulle, refuses British entry to the Common Market

Nov 27 Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"

Nov 21 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet

Nov 05 ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disk

Nov 29 British troops withdraw from Aden

Nov 29 Robert S. McNamara announces that he will resign as Secretary of Defense and will become president of the World Bank.

Nov 22 BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles

Sep 20 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38

Sep 30 USSR's Kosmos 186 and 188 complete the first automatic docking

Sep 03 Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution

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