B11011699 Martin Luther, protestant reformer
B11011798 Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor
S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
B11011871 Stephen Crane, poet/writer, (Red Badge of Courage)
B11011878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
S11011943 WW II Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
S11011952 first hydrogen bomb exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S1102     North & South Dakota Admission Day
S1102    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
B11021734 Daniel Boone, explorer, woodsman
B11021755 Marie-Antoinette, "Let them eat cake!"
B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
B11021815 George Boole, mathematician
B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B11021911 Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel 1979)
S11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S1103    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S11031620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B11031794 William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
B11031801 Karl Baedeker, German publisher of travel books
S11031903 Panama gains its independence from Columbia.
S11031917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S11031956 the Wizard of Oz is first televised.
S11031957 USSR launches the dog "Laika": the first animal in orbit
S11031973 Mariner 10 launched-first Venus pics, first mission to Mercury
S11031978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)
S11031979 63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy in Teheran, Iran
S11031986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
S1104    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S11041854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
B11041879 Will Rogers, humorist.
B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
S11041924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
S11041984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
S1105     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S1105    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S11051605 Plot to blow up British parliment fails - first Guy Fawkes day
S11051781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the United States in Congress assembled" (8 years before Washington was elected).
B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
S11051875 Susan B Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote
B11051885 Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization)
S11051895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
S11051967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc
S1106     Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1106    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B11061814 Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician, saxophone inventor
B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
S11061844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the undisputed march king
B11061860 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, patriot
S11061860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president.
B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
S11061862 1st Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco
S11061869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4
S11061917 the Russian Bolshevik revolution begins.
S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins
S11061962 Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
S1107    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1107     National Day in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
B1107 994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain
S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
B11071867 Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903 & 1911).
S11071872 Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
S11071875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from sea to sea.
B11071879 Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik
S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
B11071903 Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, writer (Nobel 1973)
S11071917 October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Government
S11071918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rocket
B11071918 Billy Graham, evangelist
S11071983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
S1108    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1108     Punster's Day
B11081656 Edmund Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
S11081793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
S11081889 Montana admitted as 41st state
S11081895 Wilhelm R”ntgen discovers x-rays
B11081922 Christiaan Barnard, performed first human heart transplantation
S11081923 Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" failed, In jail, writes "Mein Kampf"
S11081939 Life with Father, opens on Broadway, closes in 1947, a record.
S11081984 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched
S11091799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
B11091818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons
B11091821 Charles Baudelaire, Poet
B11091830 Eadweard Muybridge Pioneer Photographer
B11091841 Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
B11091850 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
S11091865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox ending the US Civil War.
B11091898 Paul Robeson actor and Singer
B11091903 Gregory Pincus birth control pill inventor
B11091915 Hedy Lamarr, sexy actress
B11091926 Hugh Hefner, Publisher
B11091934 Carl Sagan, cosmology spokesman
S11091953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
S11091965 at 5:16pm, a massive power failure blacks out New Engl. & Ontario
S11091967 first unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer
B11101697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progres
B11101730 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist (She Stoops to Conque
B11101759 Frederich von Schiller in Germany, poet
S11101775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
B11101793 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist
B11101794 Adm. Matthew Perry
S11101801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financed first successful transatlantic cable.
B11101829 William Booth founded Salvation Army
S11101864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S11101891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11101903 Clare Booth Luce Journalist and Diplomat
B11101925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
S11101945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is liberated by US troops.
S11101951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
S11101968 USSR launches Zond 6 to moon
S11101969 Sesame Street premiers
S11101970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
S11101975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior
S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn, sees many rings, moons.
S1111     The REAL Veteran's Day.  They fought for your freedom.
S1111     Martinmas, term day in Scotland (Feast of St Martin of Tours)
S1111     Rememberance Day - Canada
S11111620 41 Pilgrims sign a compact aboard the Mayflower
B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
B11111885 General George S. Patton, fast mover.
S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
S11111918 Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on the Western Front)
B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan).
S11111921 President Harding dedicates the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier.
S11111924 Palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco is dedicated.
S11111939 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
S11111965 Rhodesia proclaimes independence from Britain
S11111966 Gemini 12 is launched on a four day flight.
S11111975 Portugal grants independence to Angola (National Day).
S11111980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
S11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes the first commercial flight.
S11111987 Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction
B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
B11121817 Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bah '¡ faith
B11121833 Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer (Prince Igor)
B11121840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor (Kiss)
B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
B11121908 Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice
S11121918 Austria becomes a republic
S11121927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin is now total dictator.
B11121929 Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco
S11121933 first known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
S11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
S11121946 First "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago
S11121954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
S11121965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
B11121961 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gymnast, in Romania
S11121965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
S11121980 US space probe Voyager I comes within 77,000 miles of Saturn
S11121981 first balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V)
S11121981 First time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle "Columbia" lifts off again.
S11121984 Space shuttle astronauts snare a satellite: first space salvage.
S1113    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
B1113 354 St. Augustine of Hippo in Numidia, Algeria
B11131833 Edwin Booth, American actor
S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.
B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island)
B11131856 Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
S11131921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
S11131937 NBC forms first full symphony orchestra exclusively for radio.
S11131940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released
S11131956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation on public buses.
S11131971 Mariner 9, is the first space ship to orbit another planet, Mars.
S11131982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
S1114     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
S11141666 Samuel Pepys reports the first blood transfusion (between dogs)
B11141765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat.
B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
S11141792 George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
S11141832 first streetcar appears, in New York
B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist
S11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
B11141889 Jawaharlal Nehru, first Indian Prime Minister (1947-64)
S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the world by 8 days (72 days).
B11141900 Aaron Copland, American composer, "Appalachian Spring"
S11141910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
S11141922 BBC begins domestic radio service
S11141935 FDR proclaimes the Phillippines are a free commonwealth.
B11141935 Hussein I, king of Jordan (1953-  )
B11141948 Prince Charles of Britain
S11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
S11141969 Apollo 12 is launched
S1115     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
B11151738 Sir William Herschel, astronomer discovered Uranus
S11151777 Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
B11151862 Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (Before Dawn) (Nobel 1912)
S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
S11151881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded in Pittsburgh
B11151887 Georgia O'Keeffe in Sun Prairie, Wis, painter
B11151891 Erwin Rommel, German field marshall, the "Desert Fox"
S11151920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations
S11151939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
S11151949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.
S1116     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
S11161532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa
S11161864 Sherman begins his march to sea thru Georgia
B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues
B11161895 Paul Hindemith, German composer
B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
S11161907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state
S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
S11161965 Venera 3 launched, 1st land on another planet (Crashes on Venus)
S11161973 Skylab 4 launched into earth orbit.  Look out Australia!
S1117     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
S1117     The day of the Great American Smoke Out.
S11171558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
B11171717 Jean d'Alembert, French mathematician, scientist, philosopher
B11171790 August Ferdinand M”bius, mathematician, inventor of M”bius strip
S11171800 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.
S11171869 Suez Canal opens.
S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.
S11171970 Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
S11171977 Egyptian President Sadat accepts an invitation to visit Israel.
S1118     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
S1118    5the Great American Smoke Out
S11181497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
B11181899 Eugene Ormandy, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US canal rights thru Panama
S11181913 Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop
S11181918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
B11181923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14)
B11181928 Mickey Mouse, film star
S11181928 Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willy"
S11181936 Main span of the Golden Gate Bridge is joined.
S1119    5the Great American Smoke Out
S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S11191620 Mayflower pilgrims reach Cape Cod
B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier leader in Revolutionary War
B11191805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal
B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881)
S11191863 Lincoln delivers his famous address in Gettysburg.  Expecting a long speech, the photographer wasn't ready before Lincoln left.
B11191888 Jos‚ Ra£l Capablanca of Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
S11191895 The pencil is invented.
B11191905 Tommy Dorsey, musician, band leader
B11191917 Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77, 1980-84)
S11191919 Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations rejected by US Senate
B11191954 Kathleen Quinlan in Mill Valley Cal, (Rose Garden, Twilight Zone)
S11191959 Ford cancels Edsel
S11191970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a State Historical Landmark
S11191977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel.
B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
B11201620 Peregrine White, born on Mayflower to William & Susanna White.
S11201789 New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
B11201858 Selma Lagerl”f, Swedish novelist (Tales of a Manor) (Nobel 1909)
B11201866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge, first commissioner of baseball
B11201886 Karl von Frisch, zoologist, bee expert (Nobel 1973)
S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
B11201889 Edwin Hubble, US astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift
B11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job
B11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur
S11201910 Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco Madero.
S11201914 The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
S11201931 Commercial teletype service began
S11201947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
S11201953 first airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield.
S11201977 Egyptian Pres Sadat is 1st Arab leader to address Israel Knesset
S11201980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
S11201986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS.
B11211694 Voltaire, thinker
B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
S11211789 NC becomes 12th state
B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
S11211933 first US ambassador is sent to the USSR - WC Bullitt
B11211940 Natalia Maskarova, in Lenningrad, ballerina
S11211959 Jack Benny(Violin) & Richard Nixon(Piano) play their famed duet
S11211964 the world's longest suspension bridge, Verrazano Narrows, opens.
S1122    5Thanksgiving
B11221710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
B11221819 George Eliot in England, novelist (Silas Marner)
B11221890 Charles de Gaulle, president of France (1958-1969)
B11221898 Wiley Post, American aviator, parachutist
B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
S11221906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as the new call for help.
B11221913 Benjamin Britten, English composer
S11221943 Lebanon gains its independence (would that it could keep it)
S11221963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
S1123    5Thanksgiving
B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
S11231852 Just past midnight an earthquake makes Lake Merced drop 30 feet
B11231859 Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), outlaw
B11231860 Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 192
S11231863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
B11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman (Frankenstein, Isle of the Dead)
S11231948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back
S11231948 a patent is granted for the first zoom lens to F.G. Back
S1124    5Thanksgiving
B11241632 Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
S11241759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
B11241864 Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
S11241874 Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
B11241888 Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
B11241925 William F. Buckley, Jr., right-wing curmudgeon
S11241963 first live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.
S11241971 "D B Cooper" parachutes from a Northwest 727 with $200,000.
S1125    5Thanksgiving
S11251783 Britain evacuate New York, their last military position in US
B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
B11251846 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.
S11251866 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
S11251884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
B11251896 Virgil Thomson Composer and music critic
B11251914 Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper
B11251920 Ricardo Montalban, Welcome to Fantasy Island, Khan
S11251960 first atomic reactor for research & development, Richland WA.
B11251960 John F. Kennedy Jr., "Ask not what your country can do for you...
S11251975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)
S11251983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
S1126    5Thanksgiving
B11261607 John Harvard, clergyman, scholar, founder of Harvard University
S11261716 first lion to be exhibited in America (Boston)
S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
S11261789 first national celebration of Thanksgiving
B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman
S11261865 Alice in Wonderland is published
B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11261894 Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics
B11261922 Charles M Schultz, cartoonist (Peanuts)
S11261949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
S11261965 France launches first satellite, a 92-pound A1 capsule
S11261966 first major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary, France
S11261985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched
S1127    5Thanksgiving
S11271095 Pope Urban II preaches for the First Crusade
S11271582 the first Advent Sunday
B11271701 Anders Celsius, took temperatures
B11271874 Charles A. Beard, American historian
B11271874 Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman
S11271895 Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prize
S11271910 New York's Penn Station opens - world's largest railway terminal
S11271951 first rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
S11271971 Soviet Mars 2, is the first to crash land on Mars.
S11271985 Space shuttle Atlantis carries the first Mexican astronaut.
S1128    5Thanksgiving
S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
B11281628 John Bunyan, English cleric, author (Pilgrim's Progress)
B11281632 Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, musician
B11281757 William Blake, poet (Songs of Innocence and Experience)
B11281881 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist, translator
S11281895 America's auto race starts: 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avgd 7mph
S11281912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
S11281929 Admiral RE Byrd makes first flight over the South Pole
S11281960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
S11281964 Mariner 4 launched; first probe to fly by Mars
S11281983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched
S11281986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms agreement for 1st time
B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
B11291811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage, antislavery, prison reformer
B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
S11291887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
S11291890 1st Army-Navy football game.  Score: Navy 25, Army 0.
S11291945 Yugoslav Republic Day is first proclamed.
S11291951 first underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
S11291961 Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos)
S11291975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
B11301793 Johann Lukas Sch”nlein, helped establish scientific medicine
B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn)
B11301863 Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Phillippine revolt against Spain
B11301874 Winston Churchill, cigar smoker, (Nobel 1953)
S11301939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
S11301954 first meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Alabama
S11301958 first guided missile destroyer launched, the "Dewey", Bath, ME
S11301964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars
S11301966 Barbados gains independence from Britain
S11301967 South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain