Winter of Terror



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1963 Cyclone hits Bengal and Bangladesh, Organization for African Unity founded, Kennedy assassinated, Hurricane hits Cuba, Landslide in Italy, Earthquake in Yugoslavia (Macedonia), Cyclone hits E Pakistan (Bangladesh), Mt. Agung Volcano in Indonesia kills 1584, Vajont Dam bursts in Italian Alps causing megatsunami killing 1450-2000, Belle Spafford attends civil rights meeting at President Kennedy’s request, missionaries in Germany welcome President Kennedy, JFK delivers major foreign policy speech in tabernacle in SLC, Tiros II weather satellite launched, Yugoslavia quake, Japan quake in Kuril Islands 8.5, Birmingham police use fire hoses on demonstrators, NAACP field secretary murdered, “I Have A Dream” speech, Sixteenth Baptist Church bombed by white separatists, “I have a dream” presented before 250,000 in Washington, Abington School District v. Schempp re-asserts separation of church and state, Medgar Evers assassinated in Jackson MS, US backs assassination of S Vietnamese President Diem, “The Band” forms, Robert Frost dies, Organization of African Unity founded, Kennedy Assassinated, CS Lewis Christian and writer dies, death of English composer Rutland Boughton, death of British economist William Beveridge, death of French painter Georges Braque, death of French author Jean Cocteau, death of New Zealand-born Britain caricaturist David Low, death of English author Aldous Huxley, death of German composer Paul Hindemith, death of French composer Francis Poulenc, death of author Sylvia Plath, Film: King Kong versus Godzilla – two endings, UK secretary of war John Profumo resigns under scandal with a showgirl, start of major bee die-off with Disappearing Disease, De Gaulle objects to Britain’s entry into Common Market and Britain is rejected, death of British Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell – Harold Wilson elected as successor, Porfumo crisis – British politicians caught in scandals of lies and questionable earnings, Winston Churchill becomes honorary citizen of US, Race riots beatings and demonstrations in Birmingham AL culminate in arrest of Martin Luther King and President Kennedy calling out 3000 troops, United Arab Republic Syria and Iraq agree to unite, Fidel Castro goes to USSR, US and USSR agree on “hot line” from white house to Kremlin “Red phone”, Kennedy visits Macmillan, Nuclear testing ban signed by US USSR and Britain, British journalist Philby granted asylum in USSR, 200k “Freedom Marchers” descend on Washington, Adenauer resigns as W German Chancellor and Ludwig Erhard rules, Buddhist-led military coup overthrows S Vietnam government – US sends aid, Macmillan resigns as British Prime Minister and is succeeded by 14th Earl of Home (Sir Alec Douglas-Home), Kennedy assassinated – Johnson presides, Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby on live television, Kenya becomes independent republic within Commonwealth, WRITE: Robert Frost (dies), Gunter Grass, Jessica Mitford, Iris Murdoch, John Updike, Rolf Hochhuth, Montherlant, Mary McCarthy, John Arden, Ionesco, Morris L West, John Le Carre (The Spy Who Came in From The Cold), Hannah Arendt, Bernard Malamud, Barbara Techman, William Carlos Williams (dies) John GG Wootton, Edward Cranksahw, Isaac Deutscher, Theodor Heuss, Deaths: Ramon Gomez de la Serna (ESP), Gustaf Grundgens (GER), Jean Cocteau, Aldous Huxley, Oliver La Farge, Theodore Roethke, William Carlos Williams, Van Wyck Brooks, Clifford Odets, Jacov Shubert, Tristan Tzara (ROM), death of Pope John XXIII succeeded by Cardinal Montini as Pope Paul VI, ART: Hans Scharoun (Berlin Philharmonic), Richard Lippold, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauchenberg, Jasper Johns and others show pop art,Renewed world-wide interest in Art Nouveau, Deaths: Georges Braque, David Low (ENG cartoonist), Zasu Pitts (USA actress), Adolphe Menjou (USA actor), Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” exhibited in NY and DC, Goya exhibition in London, MOMA in NY exhibits works from Hans Hofmann, Films: “The Silence” (Ingmar Bergman), “The Cardinal “Tom Jones” “the Leopard” “Irma La Douce” “The Birds” (Hitchcock), “Dr. Strangelove” (Kubrick and Sellers) MUSIC: Michael Tippett, Menotti, Samuel Barber, Deaths: Francis Poulenc, Paul Hindemith, Ferenc Fricsay (HUN), Edith Piaf (FRA), Winfried Zillig (GER), Popular musicians include Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, Popular songs: “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer” “Danke Schoen” “Call Me Irresponsible” “Eighteen Yellow Roses”, “Louie Louie” “She Loves You” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” “Be My Baby” “I Saw Her Standing There” SCIENCE: Anti-xi-zeno discovered, Russian Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space, US astronaut Gordon Cooper orbits, Hodgkin and Eccles work on transmission of nerve impulses, friction welding invented, Oppenheimer receives Enrico Fermi medal for work, Nobel Prize Wigner for nuclear physics, Goppert-Mayer and Jensen for shell structure of atoms, Ziegler and Natta win Nobel for producing complex molecules from simple carbon, Matthews and Sandage discover quasars, De Bakey first uses artificial heart in surgery, Earthquake in Yugoslavia kills nearly 1100, Glascow-London mail robbery nets 2.5 million pounds, Hilton Hotel in London opened, Greek liner Lakonia sinks killing 150, Coldest Jan and Feb since 1740 in Britain, Jack Nicklaus wins first Masters’, “Credibility Gap” between reports in Vietnam and actual happenings, 6.1 percent unemployment in US, death of baseball great Rogers (“Rajah”) Hornsby, death of Elsa Maxwell – internationally known party-giver, second time Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson, hurricane and tsunamis kill 22,000 in E Pakistan – 4000 in Cuba and Haiti in hurricane, French Chef with Julia Child debuts, first live telecast of a murder when Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald, “Dick Van Duke Show” “Petticoat Junction” reach top 5, Artists: The Kingsmen (Louie Louie), Drifters, Leslie Gore (It’s My Party), Martha and the Vandellas (Heat Wave), Orlons, Suicide of Sylvia Plath age 31, Killing of Medgar Evers in Mississippi – Civil rights, magnetic stripes discovered at ocean ridges by Vine and Matthews suggesting continental drift, North Visitor’s Center in SLC created, Polynesian Cultural Center opens, “Smiley face” invented, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, OAU Organization of African Unity formed, South Vietnamese government overthrown, Paul VI Pope, France vetoes British application for membership in EEC, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty by US GBR and USSR

1964 Earthquake and tsunami in Anchorage AK kills 125 9.2, Flooding hits Mekong delta, Arab leaders set up the PLO, Brezhnev takes over from Khrushchev, US Civil Rights Act bans racial discrimination, chemotherapy used to treat cancer, Hurricane hits Haiti, Storm tornado and flood in E Pakistan (Bangladesh) kills 500, Typhoon hits Philippines, Flood in Japan * Johnson asks President McKay to come counsel with him in the White House, November – Prophet and President Johnson have informal conversations, "Fiddler on the Roof" "Hello Dolly" and "Funny Girl" debut on Broadway, UT – Ken Hubbs the second baseman for Chicago Cubs killed in plane crash in Provo UT, earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Tsunami hits AK BS CAN and Pacific NW, Possible tsunami in NE US, Civil Rights Act passes, establishing Equal Employment Opportunity, Dr. King receives Peace Prize, Sidney Portier wins Academy Award, Cassius Clay wins world heavyweight boxing title, joins nation of Islam and changes name to Muhammad Ali, genetic explanation offered for altruism, Martin Luther King Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize, Vietnam War escalates, Beatles marks internationalization of pop culture, George Barrie buys Faberge and introduces Brut cologne, death of Swedish chemist and 1929 Nobel Prize winner Hans von Euler-Chelpin, death of President Herbert Hoover, death of British-Canadian newspaper proprietor Lord Beaverbrook, death of Douglas MacArthur the American general, death of British cricketer JB Hobbs, death of Irish author Sean O’Casey, death of American songwriter Cole Porter, “The Munsters” debuts, start of decline of SAT scores nationwide, Zanzibar declared a republic – sultan banished – Zanzibar unites with Tanganyika to form Tanzania 0 Julius Nyerere presides – Kenneth Kaunda becomes President of N Rhodesia which becomes independent republic of Zambia, 24th amendment abolished poll tax, King Paul I of Greece dies 0 son Constantine II rules, Jack Ruby sentenced to death for killing Lee Harcey Oswald – dies of cancer next year, UN peace force takes over in Cyprus – Makarios abrogates 1960 treaty between Greece Turkey and Cyprus but Greece rejects direct talks, Turkish planes attack Cyprus 0 General Grivas named commander of Greek Cypirot forces, death of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Ian Smith elected Premier of S Rhodesia, death of Pandit Nehru – succeeded as Prime Minister by Lal Bahadur Shastri, death of Maxwell William Aitken Lord Beaverbrook, US destroyer allegedly attacked off N Vietnam – US aircraft attack N Vietnam bases in reprisal – escalation of war and heavy fighting, Nyasaland becomes the independent country of Malawi within the Commonwealth, Moise Tshombe becomes Premier of Congro – declares People’s Republic, Winston Churchill makes last appearance before House of Commons shortly before 90th birthday, Commission appointed by President Johnson under Chief Justice Earl Warren concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, De Gaulle tours S America, Malta becomes independent within Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth visits Canada, Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Martin Luther King, Alec Douglas-Home resigns as British Prime Minister succeeded by Harold Wilson, Khrushchev replaced by Brezhnev in USSR< death of Ex-president Hoover, King Daud of Saudi Arabia deposed and son Faisal proclaimed king, Lyndon B Johnson elected, Chou En-lai visits Moscow, British bank raises interest rate to 7 percent, Harold Wilson visits Washington, Kenya becomes republic with Jomo Kenyatta as president, Arafat takes over leadership of Arab guerrilla force Al Fatah, WRITE: John Osborne, Peter Schaffer, Harold Pinter, Peter Weiss, Saul Bellow, William Golding, Isherwood, Sartre, CP Snow, Gore Vidal, Arthur Miller, Elizabeth Jennings, Ernest Hemingway (posth), Louis Auchincloss, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenbert, SN Behrman, Richard Hofstadter, Eric Berne, John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., Randolph Churchill, Francois Mauriac, AHM Jones, Alexander Werth, Deaths: Brendan Behan (IRE), Ian Fleming (ENG), Edith Sitwell, Sean O’Casey (IRE), Hans Moser, Ben Hecht, Shakespeare Quartercentenary Expo, The Windmill Theater of London “We Never Close” closes as vaudeville theater, Pope Paul VI makes pilgrimage to the Holy Land, ART: Basil Spence, Allen Jones, Picasso, Deaths: Stuart Davis, Alexander Archipenko (RUS), Peter Lorre, “Art of a Decade” expo in London, Gallery of M odern Art opens in New York, Elizabeth Taylor divorces Eddie Fisher and weds Richard Burton 10 days later, Films: “Lord of the Flies” “The Passenger” “A Hard Day’s Night” “Goldfinger” “Zorba the Greek” “Mary Poppins” “My Fair Lady” “Topkapi”, MUSIC: Gustav Mahler, Benjamin Britten, Luigi Dallapiccola, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Roger Sessions, Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly), Jerry Bock (Fiddler on the Roof), Deaths: Cole Porter, Marc Blitzstein, Popular songs: “Hello Dolly!” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” “From Russia with Love” “Chim Chim Cheree” “Fiddler on the Roof”, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” “My Girl” “You Really Got Me” “House of the Rising Sun” “Where Did Our Love Go”, SCIENCE: Nobel Prize ChemistryL Dorothy Hodgkin, Fundamental partical omega-minus discovered using Nimrod-cyclotron, Hoyle and Marlikar postulate new gravitational theory, Ranger VII launched showing close-up photographs of moon’s surface, “Brain Drain” British scientists emigrate to US, Britain grants licences to drill for oil and gas in N Sea, death of German chemist Hans von Euler-Chelpin, death of founder of cybernetice Norbert Wiener, death of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (longest suspension bridge” opens in NY, Major Alaskan quake kills 114, British government changes August Bank Holiday to last Monday in month, Easter outbreak of Mods v. Rockers disturb British sea resorts, Sentences totaling 307 years for British mail-train robbers, 300 spectators killed in riots at soccer match in Lima, Race riots erupt in Harlem NY and other cities, “Daily Herald” in London closes, Olympic Games in Tokyo, Cassius Clay wins boxing title from Sonny Liston, death of British cricketer Sir Jack Hobbs, Princess Irene of Netherlands marries Spanish Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, World’s Fair in NY, Gracie Allen comedienne and wife of George Burns dies, James Hoffa president of Teamsters Union found guilty of jury tampering and sentenced, popular dances include Watusi Frug Monkey Funky Chicken and other varieties of the twist – go-go dancers popular, death of American comedian Eddie Cantor, Addams Family debuts on television based on Charles Addams cartoons in the New Yorker, Peyton Place premiers as first prime-time soap opera, Color tv becomes popular, “Bewitched” “Gomer Pyle USMC” and “The Fugitive” reach top tv, Artists: beatles, The Drifters, Herman’s Hermits, Elvis Presley, Beach Boys, Harland and Rudwick publish theory of ice age in late Precambrian, Homo habilus described by Leakey, smiley face symbol invented – not trademarked, New York World’s Fair held with Mormon Pavillion showing Man’s Search for Happiness, Home teaching and Ward Councils established, Civil Rights Bill in US passed, Fighting between Greeks and Turks in Cyprus- UN troops sent to maintain peace, War between Indonesia and Malaysia, US involvement in Vietnam war increases, Civil Rights Act, Khrushchev falls from power – Kosygin rules

1965 Cyclone hits Bengal and Bangladesh, White regime in Zimbabwe declares independence, Vietnam War begins, Malcolm X assassinated in New York, tornadoes hit Indianapolis IN, Skeena Mountains get avalanche in BC CAN, Cyclone hits E Pakistan (Bangladesh), eruption in Philippines * LBJ enjoys Mormon Tabernacle Choir at inauguration, Mormon senators and Elder Packer discuss Church’s Chaplain problem with President Johnson, Sep - Mobile, AL gets 16.885 inches of rain overnight, Stephen Sondheim begins working as a lyricist, 8.7 AK quake, Watts riots in LA, Malcolm X assassinated in NY, Malcolm X Autobiography becomes bestseller, Bill Cosby becomes first network star, cosmic background radiation discovered by Penzias and Wilson supporting Big Bang, Alexei Leonov walks in space, Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan Show, death of English author W Somerset Maugham, death of Winston Churchill, death of Albert Schweitzer the philosopher medical missionary and musician, death of Austrian-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, death of Anglo-American poet TS Eliot, end of a major bee die-off (1963), LBJ inaugurated #36, death of Winston Churchill, Gambia becomes independent, Malcolm X assassinated, Serstse Khama becomes first Premier of Bechuanaland, Outbreaks of violence at Selma AL – Martil Luther King leads 4000 demonstrators from Selma to Montgomery to deliver petition – KKK shootings in Selma, N Vietnamese MIG aircraft shoots down US jets – students demonstrate in Washington against bombing of N Vietnam – USSR admits supplying arms to Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh rejects peace talks with US, anniversaries of Magna Carta and British Parliament celebrated, Queen Elizabeth II visits W Germany, Revolution in Algera – President Ben Bella deposed, Medicare becomes law, Watts race riots in LA leave 35 dead and 4000 arrested, New US immigration law classifies applicants by family condition refugee status and skills – replaces law based on nationality, Six former Auschwitz prison officials sentenced to life imprisonment, Talks on Rhodesia – Unilateral Declaration of Independence – Britain imposes oil embargo, Podgorny replaces Mikoyan as USSR president, De Gaulle wins election to French presidency, Shah of Iran visits Moscow, Abe Fortas appointed to Supreme Court, death of US financier Bernard M Baruch, death of US jurist Felix Frankfurter, death uf US diplomat Joseph C Grew, death of first woman cabinet member Frances Perkins, death of Adlai E Stevenson, death of Henry A Wallace, Gambia Singapore and Maldives join UN, WRITE: Norman Mailer, Enid Bagnold, John Osborne, Frank Marcus, MA Sholokhov, Robert Lowell, John Arden-Armstrong, Percy H Newby, Robin Moore, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ian Fleming, Ralph Nader (Unsafe at Any Speed), Frank D Gilroy, Shirley Ann Grau, John Berryman, Max Born, Herbert Marcuse, Deaths: TS Eliot, Jacques Audiberti (FRA), William Somerset Maugham, Albert Schweitzer, Martin Buber, Paul Tillich (GER-USA), Pope Paul VI visits New York, Britain celebrates Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary, ART: Josaku Maeda, Laura Knight, Picasso, Goya picture stolen in 1961 returned to London, Giacometti expo in London, “Op” art of illusions becomes popular, Death of Le Corbusier, Charles Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman awarded Dutch Erasmus Prize, Films “Help!” (Beatles), “Cul-de-sac” “Othello” (Olivier), “Dr. Zhivago” “The Sound of Music” MUSIC: Malcolm Williamson, Leonard Bernstein, Boris Blacher, Jean Francaix, Private commercial stations established off British coast, Deaths: Nat “King” Cole, Popular Songs: “King of the Road” “It Was a Very Good Year” “Downtown” “Hard Day’s Night” “Satisfaction” “Like A Rolling Stone” “In The Midnight Hour” “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” “My Generation” SCIENCE: first space walk Leonov (USSR) and later Edward White, First French satellite launched, “Vinland Map” shows Leif Ericson discovering America (forgery proved in 1974), Rare earth complexes separated by gas chromatography, anti-pollution laws promoted, First flight around the world from pole to pole, death of Ex-King Farouk of Egypt, death of British politician Herbert Morrison, Earthwuake in Chile, Tornadoes strike Midwest, Cyclones ravage E Pakistan, Universities in Kent and Warwick ENG, Post Office Tower in London opened, 10 British soccer players found guilty of fixing matches, Jim Clark becomes world motor-racing champion, death of American cosmetician Helena Rubinstein, Relay switch in Ontario causes blackout in northeast US – baby boom follows, death of Edward R Murrow – journalist, union wages doubled since 1949, Bill Cosby becomes first African-American to headline TV show, ABC pays big money to broadcast football games, Batman reaches top television, Artists: Righteous Brothers, Temptations, Four Tops, Sonny and Cher, Righteous Brothers, Family Home Evening manuals published, death of Winston Churchill, Rhodesia in Africa becomes independent but segregated, Arab Common Market forms with EGY JOR IRQ and SYR, Fighting breaks out in Cyprus, India and Pakistan at war, US sends troops to Vietnam, Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence, Australia-New Zealand free trade agreement, Cook Islands become self-governing, US begins regular bombing raids in Vietnam, India and Pakistan war over Kashmir – UN calls for ceasefire, Winston Churchill dies, First American Marines in Vietnam, White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain – British economic pressure fails to end crisis, Britain abolishes death penalty, freedom of speech in school except religious upheld, illegal for students to pray aloud over lunch

1966 Landslide in Rio, Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India, beginning of China’s cultural revolution, First woman Scottish National Party representative, First Welsh National Party candidate wins seat at Westminster, Hurricane hits Haiti, Landslide in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Storm kills 230 in Aegean sea, Flood in Florence ITA, Landslide in S Wales, Feb - Great Blizzard of 1966 hits Great Plains, Apr -Tornadoes hit FL, "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Cabaret" debut on Broadway, Earthquakes in CA and Turkey, Black Panther Party founded, Black Power advocated by Stokely Charmichael, Kwanzaa invented, Botswana achieves independence, Michael DeBakey performs artificial heart implant, Star Trek premiers, Peter Lloyd writes, Luna 9 ship lands on moon (Soviet), Mao begins Cultural Revolution in China, death of French novelist Georges Duhamel, death of Walt Disney, death of English novelist Evelyn Waugh, Football: AFL and NFL merge – first SuperBowl next year, The Munsters cancelled after 2 years, De Gaulle inaugurated for second term – visits USSR and requests removal of NATO forces from France, Mrs. Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India – tours Europe, Harold Wilson visits Moscow, International Days of Protest (against US in Vietnam), Abdul Rachman Arif elected President of Iraq, Economic and technical pact signed by Italy and USSR, Meeting between Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, 2000 Madrid students battle with police, Chou En-lai visits Romania, H Kamzu Banda president of Malawi, British Prime Minister Wilson announces standstill in wages and prices, Red Guard demonstrates in China against Western influences, BJ Vorster named Prime Minister of S Africa, Nkrumah government in Ghana removed by military coup – Nkrumah goes into exile, Pape Paul VI issues encyclical on Vietnamese war, Nazi ministers Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach released, President Johnson goes on Far East tour, Israeli and Jordanian forces fight in Hebron area, Pakistani President Ayub Khan visits London, Kurt Georg Kiesinger elected W German chancellor, Wilson and Smith partially settle Rhodesian question – settlement withdrawn, 48-hour Christmas Truce in Vietnam, British Guiana becomes independent nation of Guyana, death of US admiral Chester W Minitz, WRITE: Truman Capote, Bernard Malamud, Adela Rogers St. John, Fletcher Knebel, Kingsley Amis, Jaxques Borel, Peter Ustinov, Gunter Grass, Francoise Sagan, Abe Burrows, Jacqueline Susann (Valley of the Dolls), HM Petrakis, Allen Drury, Iris Mrudoch, Graham Greene, Martin Walser, SJ Agnon, Nelly Sachs, Charles Dyer, David Mercer, Peter Shaffer, Katherine Anne Porter, Edward Albee, William Manchester, AE Hotchner, Robert Blake, John Barth, Robert Heinlein, Mao Tse-tung, Max Brubach, G and M Beadle, Raymons Williams, James Cameron, WG Runciman, ALfie Hinds, RT de George, LS Dembro, Deaths: Erwin Piscator (GER), Georges Duhamel (FRA), CS Forester (ENG), Evelyn Waugh (ENG), Russel Crouse (USA), Billy Rose (USA),Sophie Tucker “Last of the Red-Hot Mamas”, Clifton Webb (USA), Ed Wynn, Kathleen Norris, Anne Nichols, Lillian Smith, Cambridge Medieval History writes “The Byzantium Age”, Billy Graham conducts Greater London Crusade, World Jewish Congress in Brussels attempts to promote Jewish-Christian understanding, Archbishop of Canterbury visits Pope Paul VI, United Brethren and Methodist Churches vote to merge as United Methodist Church, Roman Catholic bishops rule that US Catholics need no longer abstain from eating meat on Fridays (except Lent), ART: Kumi Sugai, Temples and statuary of Abu Simbel Egypt moved to save them from the Aswan High Dam, Deaths: Carlo Carra (ITA), Alberto Giacometti (SWI), Maxfield Parrish (USA), Gino Severini (ITA), “Vicky” Victor Weisz (ENG political cartoonist), Hans Hofmann (GER-USA), Paul Manship (USA), Malvina Hoffman (USA), William ZOrach (USA), Eric Pommer (GER), Walt Disney, Films: “Torn Curtain” (Hitchcock’s 50th), “The Bible” “Fahrenheit 451” “Modesty Blaise” “Alfie” “Masculin-Feminin”, “A Man for All Seasons” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Elizabeth Taylor), MUSIC: Mahler’s “Song of the Earth” performed as ballet, Mitch Leigh (Man of La Mancha), William Schuman, Harry Freedman, Josef Matthias, Samuel Barber (Antony and Cleopatra), Burton Lane (On A Clear Day You Can See Forever), Leslie Bassett, Anthony Wesker, Douglas Moore, Gunther Schuller, Debut of Maxim (son) Shostakovich, Deaths: Hermann Scherchen (GER), Wieland Wagner, Deems Taylor, 40th World Music Festival held in Stockholm, New Metropolitain Opera House in NYC, Popular Songs: “Born Free” “Eleanor Rigby” “Strangers in the Night” “Ballad of the Green Berets” “Good Vibrations” “When A Man Loves a Woman” “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” (Four Tops) “Gimmie Some Lovin’” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” SCIENCE: Michael E De Bakey implants plastic arteries onto artificial heart for temporary replacement, Fourth World Congress of Psychiatry in Madrid, Luna 9 spacecraft lands on moon, US spacecraft Surveyor I also lands, Two male dogs orbit in Soviet satellite, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin spacewalks, death of Dutch physician Peter Debye, Otto Hahn Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann awarded Fermi Prize, Nobel Prize Huggins for hormonal treatment of prostate cancer and Rous for discovery of cancer virus, Salazar Suspension Bridge opens in Lisbon, US B-52 cracshed near Spain with four unarmed hydrogen bombs – one falls in sea and is recovered after three months, F;oods ravage northern Italy – thousands of art treasures ruined in Venice and Florence, W German autobahn system reaches 2000 miles, miniskirts come into fashion, death of Elizabeth Arden, supermarket retailing expands in Europe and Far East, New York “Herald Tribune” ends, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Aristotle Onassis feud over control of Societe des Bains de Mer in Monte Carlo, death of Margaret Sanger birth control advocate, German team makes first ascent of N face of the Eiger, Salvation Army centenary, Color TV becomes popular, Jack Brabham of Australia wins world driving championship in car of his own construction, White house marriage of Luci Johnson, Lebanese Intra Bank fails, “The Times” of London changes formatting to move ads, Swedish newspaper “Stockholm Tidende” ceases publication, Archduke Otto von Habsburg obtains Austrian passport after 47-year exile, Princess Beatrix (Dutch) marries German diplomat, Mile record at 3 min 51.3 seconds, Billy Casper wins playoff against Arnold Palmer in golf, Star Trek debuts, “Psycho” deemed too violent to show on television, The Red Skelton Hour” and “The Jackie Gleason Show” and “The Lucy Show” among top television, musicians: Frank Sinatra, Monkees, Percy Sledge, The Troggs, Wilson Pickett , Whittington reexamines Burgess Shale and determines fossils not direct ancestral but extinct, field of cladistics started by Hennig, start of Chinese cultural revolution and destruction of religious anc old cultural items, Temple Annex in SLC completed, Home Study Seminary started, LDSSA formed, War between Indonesia and Malaysia ends, South African Prime Minister Dr. Verwoerd assassinated – John Vorster presides, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith rejects British proposals for settlements, UN calls for sanctions on Rhodesia – South Africa and Portugal refuse, Cultural revolution in China – Red guards formed


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