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Results 1 - 61 of 61

1st - Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel
1st - British Somaliland becomes Somalia
1st - Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
1st - Ghana becomes a republic
1st - Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1st - No passports needed inside Benelux
1st - USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
2nd - "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs
3rd - Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
4th - 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
4th - America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
4th - Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
5th - Mongolia adopts constitution
6th - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
7th - Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
7th - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
8th - Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ
10th - Belgium sends troops to Congo
10th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
11th - 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
11th - Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
11th - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
11th - Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
12th - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
12th - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
12th - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
12th - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
12th - XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
12th - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
13th - 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
13th - KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
13th - US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
14th - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
14th - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
15th - Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
16th - 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
16th - George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
18th - 1st UN troops reach Congo
18th - Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
18th - Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
19th - Italian Govt Tambroni, resigns
19th - SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
20th - 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
20th - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
20th - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
20th - The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
21st - Country of Katanga forms in Africa
21st - In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
21st - Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
22nd - Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
23rd - 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
24th - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
25th - Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
25th - US Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
26th - Italian govt of Fanfani forms
27th - VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago
28th - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
30th - 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
31st - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
31st - KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
31st - Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open