Jan 31 The Island of Mauritius gains independence

Jan 05 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia

Jan 29 Nauru adopts constitution

Jan 02 Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant

Jan 31 Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 vs India in his last Test for ten years

Jan 06 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 &stays #1 for 8 weeks

Jan 31 Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia

Jan 07 U.S. postage rates increase today; it now costs six cents to send an ounce of first class mail.

Jan 07 CN suspends Turbo train service to Toronto after a month of operations because of technical problems related to cold weather

Jan 31 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR

Jan 07 CN suspends Turbo train service to Toronto after a month of operations because of technical problems related to cold weather

Jan 07 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon

Jan 08 Jacques Cousteau's first undersea special on US network TV

Jan 23 The USS Pueblo was seized in the Sea of Japan by North Korea, which claimed the ship was on a spy mission. The crew was held for 11 months before being released on Dec. 22, 1968.

Jan 02 The worlds first heart transplant is carried out

Jan 02 Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant

Jan 13 "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 293 performances

Jan 21 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland

Jan 07 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV

Jan 13 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam

Jan 02 The birth of Cuba Gooding Jr, American actor

Feb 05 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (IND) begins broadcasting

Feb 06 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam

Feb 22 Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun"

Feb 16 Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Feb 21 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000

Feb 23 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points

Feb 29 First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)

Feb 18 10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France

Feb 16 Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"

Feb 07 Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY

Feb 05 Skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m

Feb 16 Country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL

Feb 18 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin

Feb 07 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls

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