| June 11, 1965 | Tallmadge High School Class of 1965 Graduates - Members of the Class of 1966 are officially Seniors.
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| June 12, 1965 | Beatles are awarded MBE - South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier - Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies known as blue galaxies
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| June 13, 1965 | 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win
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| June 14, 1965 | Beatles release album "Beatles VI" - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
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| June 15, 1965 | Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone"
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| June 16, 1965 | Platte River floods Denver Colorado.
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| June 17, 1965 | 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
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| June 18, 1965 | Launch of the first Titan 3C rocket.
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| June 19, 1965 | KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia
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| June 20, 1965 | Died: Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
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| June 21, 1965 | Died: Bernard M Baruch, presidential advisor (coined term "Cold War"), dies at 94
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| June 22, 1965 | Died: David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 63
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| June 23, 1965 | Born: Dawn Whiteham, New London Ct, bodybuilder (Penthouse Nov 1995)
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| June 24, 1965 | Cat Ballou with Jane Fonda crepted into US theatres.
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| June 25, 1965 | Event: Gyula Kallai succeeds JÝnos KÝdÝr as premier of Hungary
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| June 26, 1965 | The Byrds went to No.1 on the US singles chart with their version of Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man.
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| June 27, 1965 | Marianne Faithfull's This Little Bird entered the Billboard charts. It eventually reached No.32.
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| June 28, 1965 | 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
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| June 29, 1965 | USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
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| June 30, 1965 | NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
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| July 1, 1965 | The Great Race with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood was released.
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| July 2, 1965 | 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
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| July 3, 1965 | USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact
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| July 4, 1965 | 20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann
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| July 5, 1965 | Born: Lucy Han, Hartford, Conn, WPVA volleyballer
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| July 6, 1965 | Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
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| July 7, 1965 | Otis Redding records "Respect"
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| July 8, 1965 | The Dave Clark Five movie Having A Wild Weekend (AKA Catch Us If You Can) debuted in London.
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| July 9, 1965 | Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH
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| July 10, 1965 | Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
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| July 11, 1965 | Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
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| July 12, 1965 | Born: Robin Wilson, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
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| July 13, 1965 | 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn
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| July 14, 1965 | Adlai Stevenson, US amb to UN/pres candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies
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| July 15, 1965 | Mariner IV sends back 1st pictures of Mars
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| July 16, 1965 | Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
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| July 17, 1965 | Born: Alex Winter, London England, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
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| July 18, 1965 | Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
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| July 19, 1965 | Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
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| July 20, 1965 | NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
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| July 21, 1965 | Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
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| July 22, 1965 | Born: John Leguizamo, Columbia, actor
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| July 23, 1965 | Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
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| July 24, 1965 | Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
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| July 25, 1965 | Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
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| July 26, 1965 | Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain
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| July 27, 1965 | Pres Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
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| July 28, 1965 | LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
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| July 29, 1965 | USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| July 30, 1965 | LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
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| July 31, 1965 | Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
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| August 1, 1965 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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| August 2, 1965 | Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
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| August 3, 1965 | Darling with Julie Christie was released.
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| August 4, 1965 | Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
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| August 5, 1965 | Dave Marr wins PGA title
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| August 6, 1965 | LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
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| August 7, 1965 | Herman's Hermits went to No.1 on the US singles chart with I'm Henry VIII, I Am.
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| August 8, 1965 | Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation
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| August 9, 1965 | Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die
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| August 10, 1965 | Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
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| August 11, 1965 | Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
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| August 12, 1965 | Race riot in West Side of Chicago
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| August 13, 1965 | Jefferson Airplane made their live debut at San Francisco's Matrix Club.
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| August 14, 1965 | Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1
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| August 15, 1965 | Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
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| August 16, 1965 | AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
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| August 17, 1965 | Born: Robert Manry, Cleve newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic
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| August 18, 1965 | Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
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| August 19, 1965 | Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
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| August 20, 1965 | Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
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| August 21, 1965 | The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
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| August 22, 1965 | LA Dodger pitcher Juan Marachal hits SF Giant catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
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| August 23, 1965 | Security guards at a Manchester TV Studio hosed down 200 Rolling Stones fans who broke down barriers while waiting for the band to arrive for a performance.
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| August 24, 1965 | Born: Marlee Matlin, Ill, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acadamy Award)
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| August 25, 1965 | Born: Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
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| August 26, 1965 | Sonny and Cher were at No.1 in the UK with the single I Got You Babe.
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| August 27, 1965 | Bob Dylan booed off stage in NY's Forest Hills
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| August 28, 1965 | Born: James Jagger, son of Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall
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| August 29, 1965 | Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
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| August 30, 1965 | Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
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| August 31, 1965 | House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
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| September 1, 1965 | India & Pakistan border fights
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| September 2, 1965 | Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
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| September 3, 1965 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei
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| September 4, 1965 | Rock group Who's van is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen
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| September 5, 1965 | Died: Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90
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| September 6, 1965 | India invades West Pakistan
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| September 7, 1965 | Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Mississippi & Louisiana
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| September 8, 1965 | Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood
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| September 9, 1965 | Franáois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency
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| September 10, 1965 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| September 11, 1965 | Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
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| September 12, 1965 | Manuel Santana wins US Tennis Open
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| September 13, 1965 | Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast
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| September 14, 1965 | "F-Troop" premieres
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| September 15, 1965 | Lost in Space premieres
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| September 16, 1965 | Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0
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| September 17, 1965 | "The Wild, Wild, West" Premieres on CBS
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| September 18, 1965 | Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
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| September 19, 1965 | Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
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| September 20, 1965 | Hank Aaron hits his last home run as a Milwaukee Brave
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| September 21, 1965 | O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')
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| September 22, 1965 | India & Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect
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| September 23, 1965 | A 20-game winner in 1964, Larry Jackson loses his 20th game of 1965
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| September 24, 1965 | Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government
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| September 25, 1965 | Beatle cartoon show begins in US
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| September 26, 1965 | Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1
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| September 27, 1965 | Clara Bow, US actress, (Down to the Sea in Ships, Wings), dies at 60
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| September 28, 1965 | Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines; 500 killed
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| September 29, 1965 | Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
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| September 30, 1965 | Donovan's 1st US TV appearance (Shindig)
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| October 1, 1965 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
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| October 2, 1965 | Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
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| October 3, 1965 | Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
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| October 4, 1965 | Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
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| October 5, 1965 | Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
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| October 6, 1965 | Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
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| October 7, 1965 | Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
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| October 8, 1965 | Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter
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| October 9, 1965 | Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
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| October 10, 1965 | Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, dies at 63
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| October 11, 1965 | Born: Luke Perry, in Mansfield, Ohio, actor, (Friends, Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210).
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| October 12, 1965 | Born: Chris Chandler, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Atlanta Falcons)
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| October 13, 1965 | Paul H MÅller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948), dies at 66
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| October 14, 1965 | Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0
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| October 15, 1965 | Jimi Hendrix signed his first recording contract, he received $1 and a 1% royalty on all of his recordings.
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| October 16, 1965 | Drat! - The Cat! closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 performances
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| October 17, 1965 | On A Clear Day You Can See Forever opens in NYC for 280 performances
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| October 18, 1965 | Died: Henry Travers, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra), aged 91.
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| October 19, 1965 | Born: Brad Daugherty, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
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| October 20, 1965 | Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
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| October 21, 1965 | Bill Black, rocker, dies at 39
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| October 22, 1965 | Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies
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| October 23, 1965 | Born: Al Leiter, Toms River NJ, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Mets)
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| October 24, 1965 | Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres
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| October 25, 1965 | Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
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| October 26, 1965 | Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
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| October 27, 1965 | Born: Krista Blomquist, New Haven Conn, WPVA volleyballer
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| October 28, 1965 | Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
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| October 29, 1965 | US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
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| October 30, 1965 | Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
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| October 31, 1965 | Wayne Fontana left the Mindbenders
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| November 1, 1965 | Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
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| November 2, 1965 | Model Jean Shrimpton wore a miniskirt, no stockings, no hat, and no gloves to the first day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival in Australia. The high-society horse-race set was shocked and the event became a milestone in the advancement of the mini as the defining fashion of the 1960s.
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| November 3, 1965 | Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
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| November 4, 1965 | Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
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| November 5, 1965 | The character Katy (played by Inger Stevens) married her congressman on The Farmer's Daughter.
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| November 6, 1965 | The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane played at the opening night of San Francisco's Fillmore West.
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| November 7, 1965 | Died: Friedrich Wildgans, composer, dies at 52
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| November 8, 1965 | "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV
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| November 9, 1965 | 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
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| November 10, 1965 | Willie Mays wins NL MVP
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| November 11, 1965 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas
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| November 12, 1965 | Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
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| November 13, 1965 | Yarmouth Castle burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
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| November 14, 1965 | US govt sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
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| November 15, 1965 | Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
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| November 16, 1965 | Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow
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| November 17, 1965 | General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of Peoples Republic of China
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| November 18, 1965 | Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
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| November 19, 1965 | Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
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| November 20, 1965 | UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
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| November 21, 1965 | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| November 22, 1965 | Man of La Mancha opens at ANTA Washington Sq Theater NYC for 2329 performances
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| November 23, 1965 | 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)
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| November 24, 1965 | Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu, becomes president of Zaire
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| November 25, 1965 | London's Harrods store closed to the public so The Beatles could do their Christmas shopping.
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| November 26, 1965 | France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
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| November 27, 1965 | 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Wash DC
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| November 28, 1965 | Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
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| November 29, 1965 | Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
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| November 30, 1965 | Born: Ben Stiller, NYC, actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy)
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| December 1, 1965 | Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
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| December 2, 1965 | Born: Karrie Mitchell, Arvada Colorado, Miss Colorado-America (1991-top 10)
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| December 3, 1965 | USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
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| December 4, 1965 | Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
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| December 5, 1965 | General Charles De Gaulle failed to obtain a clear majority in French presidential elections, winning just 44 percent of the vote.
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| December 6, 1965 | 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
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| December 7, 1965 | Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
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| December 8, 1965 | Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR
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| December 9, 1965 | A Charlie Brown Christmas, premieres
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| December 10, 1965 | Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
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| December 11, 1965 | Yearling closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
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| December 12, 1965 | Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
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| December 13, 1965 | Algerian president BoumÇdienne visits Moscow
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| December 14, 1965 | Born: Ken Hill, Lynn MA, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
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| December 15, 1965 | 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
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| December 16, 1965 | William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91
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| December 17, 1965 | Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert
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| December 18, 1965 | Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
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| December 19, 1965 | French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
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| December 20, 1965 | Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73
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| December 21, 1965 | Born: Andy Dick, Charleston SC, actor (Matthew-Newsradio)
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| December 22, 1965 | Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago," premieres
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| December 23, 1965 | Born: Slash, rock musician (Guns N' Roses).
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| December 24, 1965 | Born: Michael Haynes, NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons).
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| December 25, 1965 | Dave Clark Five went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Over And Over. They became the 7th UK act of 1965 to score a US No.1 single
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| December 26, 1965 | Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
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| December 27, 1965 | The BP offshore self-elevating barge (oil rig) Sea Gem collapsed, capsized and sank some 40 miles east of the mouth of the River Humber, in the North Sea, leaving 13 people dead.
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| December 28, 1965 | President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam rejected unconditional peace talks offered by US.
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| December 29, 1965 | Thunderball premieres in US
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| December 30, 1965 | Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines
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| December 31, 1965 | Born: Eddie Vedder, heavy metal singer (Pearl Jam-Justine)
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| January 1, 1966 | Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1
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| January 2, 1966 | 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
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| January 3, 1966 | Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
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| January 4, 1966 | Born: Deana Carter, country singer
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| January 5, 1966 | The Who appeared on a new BBC TV programme The Whole Scene Going.
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| January 6, 1966 | Duke Ellington’s concert of sacred music, recorded at 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, was broadcast on CBS-TV.
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| January 7, 1966 | Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
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| January 8, 1966 | Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
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| January 9, 1966 | Polish govt denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
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| January 10, 1966 | Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War
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| January 11, 1966 | Daktari African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
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| January 12, 1966 | LBJ says US should stay in S Vietnam until communist aggression ends
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| January 13, 1966 | Born: Tabitha Stevens, fictional character (Bewitched)
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| January 14, 1966 | David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)
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| January 15, 1966 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7
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| January 16, 1966 | Born: Jack McDowell, Van Nuys CA, pitcher (NY Yankees, White Sox, Indians)
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| January 17, 1966 | Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
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| January 18, 1966 | Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
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| January 19, 1966 | Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister
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| January 20, 1966 | The Spencer Davis Group had their first UK No.1 single with Keep On Running.
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| January 21, 1966 | Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
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| January 22, 1966 | The Beach Boys went into the studio to record Wouldn't It Be Nice.
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| January 23, 1966 | Born: Mike Brim, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
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| January 24, 1966 | Mrs. Indira Gandhi, daughter of Nehru, was sworn in as Indian prime minister following the death of Sri Shastri.
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| January 25, 1966 | Born: Brian Holman, Winfield Ks, pitcher (Cin Reds, Seattle Mariners)
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| January 26, 1966 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2)
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| January 27, 1966 | Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisc an expansion team for 1966
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| January 28, 1966 | Film actress Hedy Lamarr was arrested for shoplifting in a May Company store. She was later found not guilty.
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| January 29, 1966 | Snow storm in north east US kills 165
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| January 30, 1966 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2)
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| January 31, 1966 | USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon
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| February 1, 1966 | Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69
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| February 2, 1966 | The Rolling Stones released 19th Nervous Breakdown.
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| February 3, 1966 | 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
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| February 4, 1966 | All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
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| February 5, 1966 | Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist (öber Ideenflucht), dies at 84
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| February 6, 1966 | Born: Tom Tupa, NFL punter/quarterback (Cleve Browns, NE Patriots)
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| February 7, 1966 | Born: Chris Rock, comedian (SNL, CB4, Boomerang)
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| February 8, 1966 | Gary Coleman, Zion Ill, actor (Arnold-Diff'rent Strokes)
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| February 9, 1966 | Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79
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| February 10, 1966 | Billy Rose, US theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
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| February 11, 1966 | SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
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| February 12, 1966 | Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
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| February 13, 1966 | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| February 14, 1966 | Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
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| February 15, 1966 | Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
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| February 16, 1966 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
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| February 17, 1966 | French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
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| February 18, 1966 | Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 31
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| February 19, 1966 | Justine Bateman, Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)
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| February 20, 1966 | Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 80
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| February 21, 1966 | Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution
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| February 22, 1966 | Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
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| February 23, 1966 | Aldo Moro forms Italian government
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| February 24, 1966 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| February 25, 1966 | Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
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| February 26, 1966 | Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn, Adv of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71
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| February 27, 1966 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming
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| February 28, 1966 | Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
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| March 1, 1966 | Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
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| March 2, 1966 | 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
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| March 3, 1966 | William Frawley, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89
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| March 4, 1966 | John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
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| March 5, 1966 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| March 6, 1966 | Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
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| March 7, 1966 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| March 8, 1966 | An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
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| March 9, 1966 | Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
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| March 10, 1966 | North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
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| March 11, 1966 | Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
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| March 12, 1966 | Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
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| March 13, 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
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| March 14, 1966 | Born: Darcy Wakaluk, Pincher Creek, NHL goalie (Dallas Stars)
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| March 15, 1966 | Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
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| March 16, 1966 | Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
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| March 17, 1966 | US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
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| March 18, 1966 | Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
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| March 19, 1966 | 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Ky 72-65
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| March 20, 1966 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
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| March 21, 1966 | Supreme Court reverses Mass. ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
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| March 22, 1966 | Masculine-Feminine with Brigitte Bardot was released in France.
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| March 23, 1966 | 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
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| March 24, 1966 | Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
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| March 25, 1966 | Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled
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| March 26, 1966 | Born: Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
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| March 27, 1966 | Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
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| March 28, 1966 | Jason Garrett, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
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| March 29, 1966 | Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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| March 30, 1966 | Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
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| March 31, 1966 | 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
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| April 1, 1966 | China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
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| April 2, 1966 | Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
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| April 3, 1966 | Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
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| April 4, 1966 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| April 5, 1966 | Timothy Leary spoke at New York’s Town Hall and compared LSD to a microscope saying that the drug “is to psychology what the microscope is to biology.”
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| April 6, 1966 | Mihir Sen swam the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India.
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| April 7, 1966 | US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor
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| April 8, 1966 | Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party
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| April 9, 1966 | Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
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| April 10, 1966 | Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
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| April 11, 1966 | Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
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| April 12, 1966 | 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
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| April 13, 1966 | Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
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| April 14, 1966 | The Spencer Davis Group scored their second UK No.1 single with Somebody Help Me.
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| April 15, 1966 | Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
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| April 16, 1966 | Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
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| April 17, 1966 | Officers of the Portage County, Ohio, Sheriff's Department first saw a UFO rise up from near ground level, bathing them in light, near Ravenna, Ohio, about 5:00 A.M. Ordered by the sergeant to pursue the object, they chased it for eighty-five miles across the border into Pennsylvania.
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| April 18, 1966 | Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
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| April 19, 1966 | Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
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| April 20, 1966 | GOOD LOVIN’ - The Young Rascals is #1
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| April 21, 1966 | Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
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| April 22, 1966 | Atlanta Braves' win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4
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| April 23, 1966 | Hold On I'm Comin' by Sam and Dave released.
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| April 24, 1966 | Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
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| April 25, 1966 | Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
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| April 26, 1966 | Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
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| April 27, 1966 | Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
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| April 28, 1966 | 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie & L Marvin win
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| April 29, 1966 | Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
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| April 30, 1966 | Richard Farina, rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident
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| May 1, 1966 | US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
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| May 2, 1966 | Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
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| May 3, 1966 | Wylie Watson, actor (39 Steps) dies at 77
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| May 4, 1966 | Soviet govt signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
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| May 5, 1966 | Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
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| May 6, 1966 | Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
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| May 7, 1966 | 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
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| May 8, 1966 | Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)
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| May 9, 1966 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
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| May 10, 1966 | 25 F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
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| May 11, 1966 | Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I
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| May 12, 1966 | St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 innings
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| May 13, 1966 | Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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| May 14, 1966 | A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95
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| May 15, 1966 | South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
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| May 16, 1966 | Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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| May 17, 1966 | Born: Danny Manning, NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns)
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| May 18, 1966 | Paul Althaus, German theologist (That Christian Wahrheit), dies at 78
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| May 19, 1966 | Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Capt Cook (1773), dies
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| May 20, 1966 | Born: Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)
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| May 21, 1966 | 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
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| May 22, 1966 | 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
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| May 23, 1966 | Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
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| May 24, 1966 | Mame opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
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| May 25, 1966 | Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
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| May 26, 1966 | Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in South-Vietnam
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| May 27, 1966 | 6 French fighters crash above Spain
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| May 28, 1966 | Ballad Of Irving by Frank Gallop hits #34
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| May 29, 1966 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational
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| May 30, 1966 | 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
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| May 31, 1966 | Filming began on The Monkees TV series.
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| June 1, 1966 | Folk fans at the Royal Albert Hall booed Bob Dylan for performing with an electric guitar.
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| June 2, 1966 | US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
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| June 3, 1966 | Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
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| June 4, 1966 | Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
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| June 5, 1966 | Cinncinatti Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
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| June 6, 1966 | Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi - Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed - NFL & AFL announce their merger - Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
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| June 7, 1966 | NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
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| June 8, 1966 | NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
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| June 9, 1966 | 5 Minn Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
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| June 10, 1966 | Tallmadge Class of 1966 Graduates - Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0 - Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF) - Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
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