Do You Remember?
1st - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1st - George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1st - Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1st - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
2nd - US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
3rd - Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
4th - "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
4th - Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
4th - 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
5th - Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
5th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational
5th - 65th French Championships: Tony Roche beats Istvan Gulyas (6-1, 6-4, 7-5)
5th - 65th French Championships: Ann Jones beats Nancy Richey (6-3, 6-1)
6th - Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
6th - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
6th - NFL & AFL announce their merger
6th - Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
7th - NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
8th - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
8th - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
9th - 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
10th - Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
10th - Beatles record "Rain" 1st to use reverse tapes
10th - Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0
10th - Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
10th - Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
11th - "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
11th - "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
11th - "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs
11th - "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
11th - "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs
11th - "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK
11th - French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
11th - Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF)
12th - Dave Clark Five sets record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
12th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
13th - Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
14th - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
14th - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
16th - Rowan & Martin host The Dean Martin Show, Summer Series, on NBC-TV
16th - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
17th - Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
19th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
20th - 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF
20th - Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
21st - Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
22nd - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens
22nd - South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
23rd - Ridge High School senior class graduation
24th - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
24th - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
25th - Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
25th - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
25th - Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
26th - "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 perfs
26th - Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
26th - Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
27th - 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
27th - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
28th - Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
29th - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time
29th - KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
29th - US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities
30th - Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
30th - Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
30th - Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency
30th - Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless
30th - Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
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