Winter of Terror
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1967 Independence for Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Botswana, Gambia and Swaziland, Biafran War begins in Nigeria along with three year famine, Six Day War between Israel and Arabs, first successful heart transplant, Volcano in Iceland, Fire in Australia, Carol Burnet Show debuts, Jan - 4 tornadoes hit IA, Apr- F4 tornado hits Belvidere, IL, Mel Brooks' "The Producers" released on film, earthquakes in India and Turkey, Sweden switches all roads from left to right on Sep 3 1967 at 5 pm, Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first member of the supreme court with African ancestry, Pearl Bailey headlines on Broadway, Che Guevara executed, Pulsar source detected, Christian Barnard performs human heart transplant, Israel victorious in 6-Days War, Civil war in Nigeria, First successful heart transplant in S Africa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude", death of German statesman Konrad Adenauer, death of American poet Carl Sandburg, death of English poet John Masefield, death of British socialist politician Clement Attlee, death of Russian author Ilya Ehrenburg, death of Czech chemist Jaroslav Heyrovsky, first SuperBowl held, Apollo I fire, Harold Wilson reduces British cabinet from 23 to 21 members, Israeli forces use tanks against Syria in worsening border conflict, Podgorny makes visit to Italy meets Pope Paul VI, W German Foreign Minister Brandt visits US, Soviet Union and Britian pledge to make peace in Vietnam, France launches its first nuclear submarine, Israeli Mirage fighter planes shoot down six Syrian Air Force MIG-21s, death of Konrad Adenauer, Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva arrives in US from SWI, 5000 persons riot in Hong Kong – 700,000 march in NY in support of US soldiers fighting in Vietnam, Hanoi attacked by US bombers, Nasser and Hussein sign mutual defense pact, Sic-Day War between Israel and Arab nations begins – Israeli forces move into Sinai Desert and Jordan – capture of old city of Jerusalem – gain control of Sinai Peninsula approaches to Suez Canal – Nasser decides to resign but UAR National Assembly rejects his decision – Israeli forces penetrate into Syria – USSR severs diplomatic relations with Israel – Israel and Syria agree to ceasefire – Arab nations reject Israeli proposal – Nasser names self Prime Minister of UAR – Jerusalem proclaimed united city under Israeli rule, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrive in CAN for centennial, Arab refugees begin returning to homes on West Bank, Black Power conference held in Newark NJ, De Gaulle makes “free Quebec” speech, Pope Paul VI makes “peace pilgrimage” to Istanbul, Britain rejects Chinese ultimatum demanding pro-Communist Hong Kong newspapers – British chancery in Peking sacked and burned, American Nazi Party leader GL Rockwell shot and killed in Arlington VA< King Hussein of Jordan visits USSR< death of Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara the Cuban revolutionary leader, death of Clement Attlee, 50,000 demonstrate against Vietnam war atLincoln Memorial, Shah of Iran crowns self and wife Empress Farah at Teheran, King Constantine and family flee from Greece to Rome after failing to overthrow military government, THrugood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court, 25th Amendment ratified - presidential succession, Martin Luther King leads anti-Vietnam march in New York as another protest takes place in San Francisco, race riots in Cleveland Newark and Detroit, WRITE: Gore Vidal, Sarah Gainham, Isaac Bachevis Singer, WH Auden, Stephen Birmingham, Ira Levin (Rosemary’s Baby), Thornton Wilder, Leon Uris, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Harold Pinter, Walter Greenwood, Emlyn Williams, William Golding, Angus Wilson, Christopher Isherwood, Charles de Quintrec, Dutourd, Gunter Grass, Aldo Palazzeschi, Robert Shaw, Tom Stoppard (Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead), Rolg Hochhuth, Robert K Massie, Studs Terkel, Martin Walser, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Jules Feiffer, William Styron, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Arthur Miller, JK Galbraith, Gertrude E Gunn, Carl J Burckhahrdt, Arthur J May, GHN Seton-Watson, Gilles Perrault, Bertrand Russell, Michael Holroyd, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Anthony Sampson, George Steiner, Aurel David P. Auserve, Deaths: Heinz Hilpert (GER), Mischa Auer (RUS-USA), Charles Bickford (USA), Martine Carol (FRA), Alice B Tolkas, Ilya Ehrenburg (RUS), Pamela Frankau (ENG), Sir Victor Gollancz (ENG), Bybyan Holland (ENG Oscar Wilde’s son), Langston Hughes (USA), Margaret Irwin (ENG), Margaret Kennedy (ENG), Bert Lahr, Vivien Leigh (ENG), Andre Maurois (FRA), John Masefield (ENG), Carson McCullers, Paul Muni (USA), Dorothy Parker (USA), Claude Rains (ENG_USA), Basil Rathbone (USA), Elmer Rice (USA), Carl Sandburg (USA), Siegfried Sassoon (ENG), Spencer Tracy (USA), Anton Walbrook (AUSTR-ENG), Isaac Deutscher (POL-ENG), Cardinal Francis Spellman archbishop of NY, ART: Marc Chagall, Charmion von Weigand, Deaths: As. Reinhardt (USA), Rene Magritte (FRA), Edward Hopper (USA), Jayne Mansfield (USA), GW Pabst (GER), In Paris three exhibitions – Picasso Ingres and the treasures of Tutankhamen, Films: “Blow-Up” “Belle de Jour”(Bunuel) “Bonnie and Clyde” “”The Countess from Hong Kong” (Chaplain)”El Dorado” “Accident” “The Chelsea Girls” (Warhol) “Portrait of Jason” “La Prise de la pouvoir par Louis XIV” “In The Heat of the Night” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (K Hepburn and S Tracy), “The Taming of the Shrew” National Library in Ottawa opened (CAN), MUSIC: Andre Prevost, Willard Stright, Hans Werner Henze, MD Levy, Gaetano Zuffre, William Watson, Marius Constant (ballet), Alezander Goehr, Herbert von Karajan, Masteroff Kander and Ebb (Cabaret), Deaths: Harriet Cohen (ENG), OE Deutsch (AUSTR-ENG), Mischa Elman (USA), Nelson Eddy, Geraldine Farrar (USA), Woody Guthrie (USA), Zoltan Kodaly (HUN), Sir Malcolm Sargent (ENG), Paul Whiteman (USA King of Jazz), Victor de Sabata (ITA), Barbra Streisand sings in Central Park New York, Sandie Shaw wins Eurovision Song Contest for Britain with “Puppet on a String”, English singer Gerry Dorsey changes name to Engelbert Humperdinck and gains world fame, Popular songs: “Respect” “Light My Fire” “Sunshine of Your Love” (Cream), “Purple Haze” “A Dar in the Life” (Beatles), SCIENCE: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir M Komarov killed during reentry of Soyuz I, Stanford U produces synthetic DNA, Low temper irradiation of hytrigen iodine mixtures lead to reassessment of mechanism, China explodes hydrogen bomb, Christiaan N Barnard performs human heart transplant first time, Dr. Irving S Cooper develops cryosurgery to treat Parkinson, Seven new mesons discovered at Cern, Russia launches Lina 13 toward moon, Desmond Morris writes “The Naked Ape”, Deaths: Robert Oppenheimer, Bela Schick (US pediatrician), Robert J Van de Graaff, HJ Muller (USA), Expo 67 opens in Montreal, Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) refuses to be inducted into US armed forces and is indicted in Houston, death of Jacques Heim French couturier, Ilse Koch the German war criminal “the beast of Buchenwald” found hanged in prison, death of Henry R Luce publisher of Time Life and Fortune magazines, Mickey Mantle hits 500th home run,Albert H de Salvo the “Boston Strangler” sentenced to life, Tropical rains and cloudbursts inundate eastern Brazil, Lake Point Tower in Chicago becomes tallest apartment building, Lost Creek Dam in UT completed, Peggy Fleming wins world figure skating championship, Sweden changes from right to left-side driving, Francis Chichester finishes solo voyage around world, David Frost emerges as Television Personality of the Year in England, Twiggy the British model takes fashion world, death of US baseball player Jimmy Foxx, Billie Jean King wins Women’s tennis titles, Lynda Bird Johnson (daughter) marries, Congress creates PBS, “Family Affair” reaches top television popular artists include Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, The Beatles, Martha and the Vandellas, Otis Redding, debut of Carol Burnett show, Sagan (Margulis) hypothesizes chloroplasts originated as cyanobacteria and mitochondria as bacteria endosymbiants, Leakey finds Homo sapiens at 195000 years old, “Summer of Love”, Phil Donahue starts Dayton talk show, Regional Reps called, Civil war in Nigeria as East declares independent country of Biafra, Military coup in Greece, Six Day War between Arabs and Israel, Civil war in Nigeria to 1970, Military coup in Greece, Six Day War between Arabs and Israelis, Second British application to enter Common Market vetoed by France, Civil war in Nigeria – Biafra region breaks away from Nigerian Federation, US Office of Education publishes on impersonal manipulation and opinion management, mention of God banned in Elementary schools 1968 Students riot in Paris, Czechoslovakia tries to initiate reforms in “Prague Spring” but is crushed, Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in L.A., Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis, Civil Rights Campaign leads to violence in Ireland, earthquake in N Iran, major storm “Wind of the Century” in Scotland, flooding in India * Nixon beats George Romney for GOP candidacy, Reagan visits Utah on political visit, Mar - Severe thunderstorm downs plane near Dawson, TX, May - Destructive tornado in IA, Jun - F5 tornado near Tracy, MN, Dec - 150 foot waves hit HI, "Hair" debuts on Broadway, Hong Kong Flu pandemic kills 750,000 worldwide, Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated, James Earl Jones wins a Tony, Arthur Ashe wins U.S. Open, Jimi Hendrix plays Philharmonic Hall in NYC, Epperson V. Arkansas re-visits separation of church and state, Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated, student-led rebellions in France and Germany, N Vietnamese Tet Offensive, Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, Japanese Kawabata wins Nobel Prize (Lit), Calvin Klein begins production, Ralph Lauren creates line of menswear, death of American author and reformer Upton Sinclair, death of Helen Keller age 88, death of American novelist John Steinbeck, first sighting of Monster of Lough Nahooin in Ireland, Valerie Solanas of S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) shot Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya at Warhol's studio. US Navy intelligence ship captured by N Korea – crew finally released, Alexander Dubcek named first decretary of Czechoslovakia Communist Party, Talks between Israeli Prime Minister Eshkol and US President Johnson, Israel and UAR agree to exchange prisoners of war, Protests in Warsaw against government intervention in cultural affairs, British colony Mauitius becomes independent, British Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns – Michael Stewart serves, Senator Robert F Kennedy announces candidacy, Antonin Novotny forced to resign as President of Czechoslivakia – General Ludwik Svoboda rules, President Johnson announces he will not try for second term, Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated - Scotland Yard arrests James Earl Ray in London – extradited to US, “Action Program” with personal rights issued in Czechoslovakia, Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister, King Olav V of Norway visits USA< Student riots in Paris, , De Gaulle visits Romania and asks France to give him vote of confidence, Robert F Kennedy assassinated in LA and Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan convicted of crime, Queen Elizabeth II invests Prince Charles with Order of the Garter, Riots and police brutality and bullying mark Democratic convention in Chicago – Hubert H Humphrey wins nomination, Czechoslovakia – Leadership of Communist party wins endorsement for resisting USSR – Soviet troops move to Slovak border – Dubcek vows country is safe – Tito of Yugoslavia shows Czech support – Soviet Union invades – summit meetings, British Prime Minister Wilson and Rhodesian leader Ian Smith confer aboard British warship – fail, British government restricts immigration from India Pakistan and W Indies, Richard M Nixon promises to end Vietnam War and elected #37, Queen Elizabeth visits Brazil and Chile, Israeli defense Minister Moshe Dayan meets Nixon in New York, death of Norman Thomas a founded of ACLU and Socialist candidate for president, WRITE: Uasirnari Rawabata, Charles Portis, meyer Levin, Richard Bradford, SN Behrman, Peter Beagle (Last Unicorn), John Updike, Phyllis McGinley, Arthur Hailey, George E Condon, Kingsley Amis, John Braine, Paul Morand, Roger Peyrefitte, Maguerite Yourcenar, Bernard Clavel, Montherlant, Simone de Beauvoir, Francoise Sagan, Gunter Eich, John Hersey, Adam Smith (The Money Game), Frederick Rolfe, James D Watson, Sir Bernard Lovell, Gore Vidal, Peter Weiss, Tom Wolfe, Aleksei Arbusov, William Douglas-Home, Enid Bagnold, Matt Crowley, Arthur Kopit, Peter Nichols, Joe Orton, Howard Sackler, Edward Albee, Gerome Radni and James Rado (Hair), Neil Simon, Muriel Spark, Leo Rosten, Sabatino Moscati, RW Stallman, Walter S Ross, John Kobler, Will and Ariel Durant, Han Suyin, Edward H Madden, Herbert Marcuse, C Day Lewis appointed English poet laureate, Giorgio Strehler resigns from Milan Piccolo write, Russian authors Galanskov Ginsburg Lashkova and Dobrovolski sentenced to imprisonments, Worldwide student unrest, YEhuda Leib Levin chief Rabbi of Moscow visits New York, Ulster Civil Rights Campaign leads to fighting between Catholics and Protestants, Pope Paul VI encyclical “Humanae Vitae” against all artificial contraception, Terence J Cooke succeeds Francis Spellman as Catholic Archbishop of NY, Deaths: Tallulah Bankhead, Max Brod (Aust), Edna Ferber (USA), Dorothy Gish, Giovanni Guareschi (ITA), Fanny Hurst (USA), Howard Lindsay, Sir Harold Nicolson (ENG), Salvatore Quasimodo (ITA), Conrad Richter, Upton Sinclair, Ruth St. Denis, John Steinbeck, Sir Donald Wolfit (ENG), Arnold Zweig (GER), Cardinal Augustin Bea, Helen Keller, Thomas Merton (Trappist monk and author), ART: R Buckminster Fuller awarded Gold Medal by Royal Institute of British Architects, Columns of Parthenon in Athens threaten to collapse due to weathering and erosion, Dada and Surrealism exhibition at MOMA NY, Wassenaar Bonies, Deaths: Peter Arno (USA), Roy De Maistre (AUSSIE), Rene d’Harnoncourt (USA), Marcel Duchamp (FRA-USA), Lucio Fontana (ITA), Foujita (FRA-JAP), John Heartfield (GER), Kees Van Dongen (DUT-FRA), Anthony Asquith, Carl Dreyer (DAN), Dan Duryea, Lilian Harvey (GER), Mew Marsh, Franchot Tone, Walter Wanager (USA), Mickey Mouse celebrates 40th birthday, Gateway Arch in St. Louis dedicated, Balerie Solanis – actress in one of his films shoots and wounds Andy Warhol, Films: “The Thomas Crown Affair” “Star!” “Funny Girl” (Streisand) “The Odd Couple” (Lemmon and Matthau), “In Cold Blood” “The Comedians” “The Lion in Winter” (K Hepburn), “Je t’aime Je t’aime” “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Kubrick), “Oliver!” MUSIC: Jerome Rosen, Luciano Shailly, Jean Louis Barrault (produces), Robin Orr, Angelo Musco, Laci Boldemann, Michael Stewart and John and Fran Pascal, Luigi Dallapiccola, Hans Werner Henze, deaths: Harold Kreutzberg (GER), Michael Carr (ENG), Joseph Keilberth (GER), Charles Munch (FRA), Ildebrando Pizzetti (ITA), Rullio Serafin (ITA), Gary Burton jazz vibraphonist becomes popular, Aretha Franklin with soul music and Jimi Hendrix with rock compete for popularity, Popular songs: “Congratulations” “Cinderella Rockefella” “Hey Jude” “Mrs. Robinson” “Stoned Soul Picnic” “I Heard it Through The Grapevine” “Hey Jude” “All Along the Watchtower” (Hendrix) “Dock of the Bay” “Mony Mony”, SCIENCE: Third heart transplant, US spacecraft Surveyor 7 lands on the moon, Two unmanned Societ satellites find each other by radar while in orbit, US explodes underground H bomb, Apollo 7 launched, Intelsat 3A communication satellite launched, Apollo 9 launched to orbit the moon, Pulsars discovered, death of Chester Carlson inventor of xerography, “Second Ten Years of the World Health Organization” published, death of British physiologist Sir Henry H Dale, death of Yuri A Gagarin the cosmonaut, death of Otto Hahn GER chemist, death of Lev D Landau Soviet physicist, death of Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic, deathof Austrian Lise Meitner, Benjamin Masar discovers foundations of the Temple of Herod, Oliver Knussen age 15 conducts London Symphony Orchestra, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle S Onassis, death of British politician Randolph Churchill, death of former Duchess of Kent Princess Marina, death of Jess Willard, Aswan Dam completed, Iran earthquake kills 12,000, over 27k Czech refugees enter Austria, “midi” dresses fail to replace minis, death of Harold Gray creator of comic “Little Orphan Annie”, death of R Dirks creator of “Katzenjammer Kids”, Julie Nixon (dau of Richard) weds Dwight Eisenhower (grandson of), Peggy Fleming wins only US gold at Winter Olympics, Lee Trevino wins US Open Golf, Television: 60 Minutes debuts, “Rowan and Martin’s laugh-In” “Mayberry RFD” reach top tv, artists include Otis Redding, Sly and the Family Stone, Tommy James & the Shondells, Marvin Gaye, Steppenwolf, Stax records (funk/R&B/soul) sanitation workers strike in Memphis – strike declared illegal – most workers were black and leadership white - Dr. King goes to Memphis to plead for fair treatment – Dr. King shot at Lorraine Hotel (oasis for integrated groups – Stax records hangout) – Smothers Brothers debuts on TV, Laugh-In becomes hottest show on TV, Chaos and unrest in large US cities, Continental Baths open in New York as a gay bathhouse, Church starts study programs in Israel , death of Yuri Gagarian in car accident, Antonio Salazar of POR retires after holding office since 1932 – Marcello Caetano presides as near dictator, Ulster (North Ireland) riots with IRA terrorism begins, Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia, Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, MLK Jr. assassinated, Student demonstrations in Paris lead to clashes in with police, Soviets invade Czechoslovakia to crush liberalism of secretary Alexander Dubcek, Crisis in North Ireland begins , Vietnam Tet Offensive 1969 US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin land on the moon, British troops attempt to restore order in N Ireland, Landslides in LA CA, Famine begins in Mali AFR 5 years, Storm in Tunis AFR * Eisenhower dies – Church holds memorial service, J. Willard Marriott made chair of Nixon’s inaugural. Tabernacle Choir participates, Governor Romney appointed to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, David M. Kennedy serves as secretary of treasury and later as ambassador at large. Terrel H. Bell serves as deputy commissioner of education and Jon M. Huntsman serves as special assistant and staff secretary to president Nixon, Charles J. Carter – Baptist minister from Florida joins LDS Church – cousin to Jimmy, Aug - Hurricane Camille devastates mainland US, Quakes in CA and Bosnia/Herzegovina, James Earl Ray convicted of killing Dr. King, Maya Angelou publishes, first gene cloned, Peter Lloyd composes, Ted Hoff develops microprocessor, Nixon terminates US biological warfare program, US military tests biological agents on live caged animals in the Pacific, Violence in n Ireland begins, Men on moon, Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five", Bell-bottomed Levis first sold, Katherine Hepburn stars in “Coco” on Broadway, death of Helena Rubinstein the US cosmetic manufacturer, Gap stores start in San Francisco, death of German-American architect Walter Gropius, death of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, death of American president and general Dwight D Eisenhower, death of actor Boris Karloff, death of Rocky Marciano the American boxer, New Czech federal government inaugurated, Violent fighting in N Ireland between Catholics and Protestants, Sirhan Sirhan tried and convicted of death of Robert Kennedy, Jan Palach a Czech student publicly burns himself to death in Prauge protesting Soviet occupation, Richard M Nixon inaugurated #37, De Gaulle commits to serve out full term, London School of Economics and Political Science closes for weeks due to student disorders, Red Cross flies relief airlifts into Biafra, Al Fatah leader Yasir Arafat elected as Chairman… of Palestine Liberation Organization – main guerilla forces shift to Jordan – Arab terrorist bomb explodes in Jerusalem, Caribbean island of Anguilla severs ties with Britain, death of Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Nixon makes eight-day tour of Europe, Gustav Heinemann elected President of W Germany, James Earl Ray sentenced for assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Golda Meir becomes Israel’s fourth Prime Minister, Pakistan President Ayub Khan resigns and is succeeded by Aga Muhammed Yahya Khan, “Chicago Eight” indicted for riots during ’68 Democratic convention – found not guilty after boisterous trial, death of Dwight D Eisenhower, Alexander Dubcek sacked as Czech Communist Party First Secretary, De Gaulle resigns as President of France 0 James Chichester Clark succeeds Terence O’Neill as Prime Minister of N Ireland, New Party guidelines established in Czechoslovakia on strict Marxist-Leninist principles, Nixon meets S Vietnamese President Thieu on Midway Island, US and Japan agree on the return to Japan of Ryukyu Islands, British Conservative MP Enoch Powell proposes repatriation of Black and Asian residents, death of German politician Franz von Papen, Georges Pompidou elected President of France, Queen Elizabeth II invests Prince Charles as Prince of Wales, First US troops withdrawn from Vietnam, Senator Edward Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne plunge in car to pond at Chappaquiddick – she dies, Pape Paul VI meets Nigerian and Biafran representatives in Uganda, death of Ho Chi Minh President of N Vietnam, Golda Meir and Nixon meet in Washington DC< Dubcek dropped from Czechoslovak Communist Party, British army sends 600 troops into Belfast to quell rioting, Willy Brandt elected W German Chancellor, widespread protests against Vietnam war, US Army Staff Sgt. Daviot Mitchell and Lt. William Calley ordered to stand trial on murder charges for massacre of civilians at Mylai Vietnam, death of American labor leader John L Lewis, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns after questionable financial dealings, Nixon appoints Warren Burger as Chief Justice, WRITE: Philip Roth, Mario Puzo (The Godfather), Lillian Hellman, Leonard Woolf, Henry Williamson, JP Donleavy, William Trevor, Nathalie Sarraute, P Bourgeade, Anna Seghers, Siegfried Lenz, Alberto Moravia, Jay Richard Kennedy, Harold Robbins, Joe Orton, George Hulme, Felicien Marceau, Samuel Beckett, Gunter Grass, Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain), Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five), Laurence Peter and Raymond Hall, Vladimir Nabokov, Jacqueline Susann, Peter mass, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Rene Dubos, Alain Olivier, RR Betts, Lady Antonia Fraser, Ragnhild Hatton, RG Diederfield, G Roux, Carlos Baker, Dean Acheson, Theodore H White, Joe McGinniss, William L Shirer, Cecil Harmsworth King, Harold Macmillan, H Montgomery-Hyde, Hedwig and Max Born, Robert D Cumming, Louis O Mink, Debabrata Sinha, Deaths: John Mason Brown (USA), Gabriel Chevalier (FRA), Ivy Compton-Burnett (ENG), Judy Garland, Boris Karloff (ENG-USA), Jack Kerouac, Erika Mann (GER), Eric Portman (ENG), Stephen Potter (ENG), Sir Osbert Sitwell (ENG), Robert Taylor (USA), B Traven (GER-USA), Karl Jaspers (GER), Kingsley Martin (ENG), Theodor W Adorno (GER), “Penelope Ashe” and “Naked Came the Stranger” written as a jest by journalists in NY, Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” enters 18th year, New York sex revue “Oh Calcutta!” , Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writer’s Union, Pope Paul VI names 33 new cardinals and eliminates 200 saints from liturgical calendar, Sir Allen Lane retires from Penguin books after 50 years of publishing, religion shows decline in US polls, ART: Lilian Gish, deaths: Walter Gropius (GER), Ben Shahn, Sir William Russell Flint (ENG), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (GER-USA), Leo McCarey (USA), Nicholas M Schenck (USA), Josef von Sternberg (USA), Boston’s new city hall designed, Anniversaries of death of Tembrandt and founding of Royal Academy in London, Films: “Midnight Cowboy”, “Justine” “MacKenna’s Gold” “Eady Rider” (Hopper), “Bullitt” “If” “Battle of Britain” “Oh! What a Lovely War” (Attenborough), “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “Z” “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” (Jane Fonda), “Satyricon” “Isadore” (Vanessa Redgrave) “MASH” (Altman), “Women in Love”, MUSIC: Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Olivier Messiaen, Humphrey Searle, Panderecki, Malipiero, Menotti, Schonberg, Michael Tippett, Menotti, Katherine Hepburn in “Coco” musical, “1776” musical opens, Deaths: Ernest Ansermet (SWI), Wilhelm Backhaus (SWI), Irene Castle (USA), Vernon Duke (USA), Amparo Iturbi (ESP-USA), Giovanni Martinelli (ITA-USA), Gladys Swarthout (USA), Frank Loesser (USA), Popular Songs: “A Boy Named Sue” “Hair” “Aquarius” “In the Year 2525” “Whole Lotta Love” (Led Zeppelin” “Proud Mary” “I want You Back” (Jackson 5) “Honky Tonk Women” (Rolling Stones) “Bad Moon Rising” Duke Ellington celebrates 70th birthday – awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Nixon, Woodstock near Bethel NY attracts 300k, Mary Hopkin emerges as new singing star, SCIENCE: The Concorde makes first supersonic test flight, Apollo !) astronauts come within 9.4 miles of the moon, Apollo 11 lands on moon with Neil Armstrong first down, US astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan L Bean land on the moon and take samples in Apollo 12, death of Philip Blaiberg who lived with transplanted heart `9 months, death of Sadao Otani US-JAP pathologist, death of ENG physicist CF Powell, death of Israeli nuclear physicist Amos de Shalit, New swallow species discovered in Thailand (white-eyed river martin), Alaskan oil fields lease sells for over 900 million in one day, J Weber of U of Maryland observes gravitational waves postulated by Einstein, US government limits cyclamates in food and limits MSG use, Two mariner space probes brings pictures of Mars, US governments takes steps to ban DDT, Nobel prize for Economic science to R Frisch and Niko Tinbergen, Murray Gell-Mann wins Nobel Prize for work on theory of elementary particles, Virus structure wins Nobel prizes for M Delbruck, AD Hershey and Se Luria, “Saturday Evening Post” suspends publication, Suffragan Bishop Matthias Sefregger of Munich identified as subject of Nazi war crimes investigation, Hurricane Camille devastates MS gulf coasts, Rains in CA cause slides that damage 10,000 homes and kill 100, death of Joseph Patrick Kennedy (father of brothers), 1792 vintage wine auctioned at Christie’s of London, GM recalls five million cars for defects, 39 nations meet in Rome to survey pollution of the seas, Bandits hijack trunk in London and escape with bullion worth 75k pounds, Worldwide inflation, Lillebaelt suspension bridge (DEN) and Newport Bridge built, Trouser outfits considered acceptable for women, Bodies of actress Sharon tate (wife of Roman Polanski) and four others found in LA home – Charles Manson and commune indicted, Soviet spies Helen and Peter Kroger ezchanged for British lecturer Gerald Brooke, Prince Philip maintains that Britain’s royal family will have to ask Parliament to increase queen’s allowance, death of American golf champion Walter Hagen, Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain leads rebounds for NBA for fourth year in a row and 8/10 past years, death of American journalist Westbrook Pegler, Television: Sesame Street debuts, popular musicians include Foundations, Neil Diamond, Steam, Spiral Staircase, Piero Umiliani, Laugh-In hottest show on television, Five kingdoms of life proposed, police raid New York’s Stonewall Inn dance club sparking riots by gay organization, Unified Social Services (LDS) Department formed, Genealogical records for individuals (not families) ok’d, Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin land on moon, Britain sends troops to Northern Ireland, French President Charles de Gaulle resigns, war memorial crosses illegal Directory: lifeboat -> PEACH-PROGRESS -> alreadyDone lifeboat -> February 2010 vol. 2: 93 lifeboat -> October 2005 vol. 2: 42 lifeboat -> The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund lifeboat -> Selsey rnli's Lifeboat Week ended on a high note when the weather held fair for launch day lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station june 2006 vol. 2: 50 newbiggin’S 155th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station july 2009 vol. 2: 87 newbiggin’S 158th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station april 2007 vol. 2: 60 newbiggin’S 156th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station march 2010 vol. 2: 94 newbiggin’S 159th year of lifesaving PEACH-PROGRESS -> 1800 earthquake in California est at 6 Download 334.74 Kb. 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