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Jun 30th - Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
Jul 1st - Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel
Jul 1st - British Somaliland becomes Somalia
Jul 1st - Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
Jul 1st - Ghana becomes a republic
Jul 1st - Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
Jul 1st - No passports needed inside Benelux
Jul 1st - USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
Jul 2nd - "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs
Jul 3rd - Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
Jul 4th - 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
Jul 4th - America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
Jul 4th - Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
Jul 5th - Mongolia adopts constitution
Jul 6th - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
Jul 7th - Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
Jul 7th - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
Jul 8th - Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ
Jul 10th - Belgium sends troops to Congo
Jul 10th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
Jul 11th - 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
Jul 11th - Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
Jul 11th - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
Jul 11th - Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
Jul 12th - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
Jul 12th - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
Jul 12th - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
Jul 12th - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
Jul 12th - XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
Jul 12th - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
Jul 13th - 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
Jul 13th - KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
Jul 13th - US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
Jul 14th - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
Jul 14th - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
Jul 15th - Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
Jul 16th - 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
Jul 16th - George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
Jul 18th - 1st UN troops reach Congo
Jul 18th - Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
Jul 18th - Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
Jul 19th - Italian Govt Tambroni, resigns
Jul 19th - SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
Jul 20th - 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
Jul 20th - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
Jul 20th - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
Jul 20th - The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
Jul 21st - Country of Katanga forms in Africa
Jul 21st - In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
Jul 21st - Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
Jul 22nd - Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
Jul 23rd - 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
Jul 24th - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
Jul 25th - Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
Jul 25th - US Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
Jul 26th - Italian govt of Fanfani forms
Jul 27th - VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago
Jul 28th - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
Jul 30th - 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
Jul 31st - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
Jul 31st - KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
Jul 31st - Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
Aug 1st - Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
Aug 1st - Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
Aug 1st - Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
Aug 1st - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
Aug 3rd - Niger gains independence from France
Aug 4th - Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
Aug 5th - Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
Aug 5th - Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon
Aug 6th - Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
Aug 7th - Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) gains independence from France
Aug 7th - Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
Aug 7th - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
Aug 8th - "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1
Aug 8th - Ivory Coast declares independence
Aug 8th - South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
Aug 9th - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
Aug 10th - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
Aug 10th - Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
Aug 11th - Chad declares Independence from France
Aug 11th - French colony of Chad became independent
Aug 12th - 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
Aug 12th - Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
Aug 12th - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m
Aug 12th - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
Aug 13th - Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
Aug 13th - USSR draws adviseors out of China
Aug 15th - CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
Aug 15th - Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
Aug 15th - Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
Aug 15th - Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0
Aug 15th - UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
Aug 16th - Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
Aug 16th - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
Aug 16th - Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
Aug 17th - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
Aug 17th - Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
Aug 17th - Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
Aug 18th - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
Aug 18th - 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Aug 18th - Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
Aug 18th - Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies
Aug 19th - Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
Aug 19th - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
Aug 20th - Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
Aug 20th - USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
Aug 22nd - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
Aug 22nd - Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
Aug 23rd - World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
Aug 24th - -127°F (-88°C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
Aug 24th - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
Aug 25th - 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
Aug 25th - AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
Aug 25th - Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
Aug 27th - Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
Aug 27th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
Aug 28th - White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
Aug 29th - Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
Aug 30th - Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
Aug 30th - East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
Aug 31st - Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
Sep 1st - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
Sep 1st - Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London
Sep 2nd - Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
Sep 2nd - William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
Sep 2nd - The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
Sep 4th - -12] Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean & US
Sep 5th - Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal
Sep 5th - President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo
Sep 5th - Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal
Sep 5th - The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
Sep 7th - Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
Sep 8th - German DR limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners
Sep 9th - 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
Sep 10th - Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2)
Sep 10th - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
Sep 11th - 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
Sep 11th - 74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64)
Sep 11th - 80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97)
Sep 11th - The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement.
Sep 12th - "Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
Sep 12th - John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him.
Sep 13th - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
Sep 14th - Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1
Sep 14th - Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo
Sep 14th - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC
Sep 14th - KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
Sep 14th - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) forms
Sep 15th - France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments