Mar 18 Beatles' "Penny Lane", single goes #1
Mar 02 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 06 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
Mar 01 Dominica &St Lucia gain independence from Britain
Mar 30 In Victoria BC, opening of SEACOM: Southeast Asia Commonwealth Cable; 40,000 km link between Britain, Canada and Australia.
Mar 04 World Ice Dance Championship in Vienna won by Diane Towler & Bernard Ford (Great Britain)
Mar 28 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam
Mar 19 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
Mar 09 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
Mar 26 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming &Cabaret win
Mar 26 21st Tony Awards Homecoming &Cabaret win
Mar 01 House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)
Mar 14 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
Mar 11 The World Cup skiing title was earned by Jean-Claude Killy of France.
Mar 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Mar 16 Quebec raises provincial sales taxes from 6% to 8%; new program to supplement family allowance; highest sales tax in Canada.
Mar 30 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" is photographed
Mar 19 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Golf Classic
Mar 06 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
Mar 26 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
Aug 01 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
Aug 25 Paraguay accepts its constitution
Aug 15 England's Marine Offense Bill making pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down
Aug 19 Operation Coronado IV begins in Mekong Delta
Aug 24 Liberian flag designed
