Events 401 - 461 of 461
- Nov 4 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
- Nov 6 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
- Nov 6 Edward M. Kennedy 1st elected as Democratic Senator for Massachusetts
Election of Interest
Nov 6 Edward W. Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
- Nov 6 Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery
- Nov 6 Statue of Joseph Stalin in Prague is removed as part of de-Stalinzation efforts
- Nov 6 UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
Election of Interest
Nov 7 Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California
- Nov 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
Nov 19 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
- Nov 19 SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo" premieres in NYC
- Nov 19 Todor Zhivkov (51) becomes Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Nov 20 USSR agrees to remove remaining Ilyushin Il-28 bomber jets from Cuba, US lifts blockade
- Nov 21 The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
- Nov 22 7th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Perth, Australia
- Nov 24 Last of Dutch military leave New Guinea
- Nov 26 Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
- Nov 27 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
- Nov 27 Sumner Arthur Long's play "Never Too Late" premieres in NYC
- Nov 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 28 Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored
- Nov 29 Great Britain & France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner
- Dec 3 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
- Dec 3 Pravda criticizes western art
- Dec 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 6 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program
- Dec 7 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 8 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
- Dec 8 Attempted coup in British-controlled Brunei
Event of Interest
Dec 8 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
- Dec 9 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
- Dec 9 Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
- Dec 10 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
- Dec 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 13 Relay 1 communication satellite launched
- Dec 14 Mariner 2 makes 1st US fly-by of another planet (Venus)
- Dec 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 16 Nepal establishes its constitution and becomes a Constitutional Hindu Monarchy
- Dec 17 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
- Dec 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Dec 19 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
- Dec 19 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
- Dec 19 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
- Dec 21 Angolin leaves Comecon
- Dec 21 US & Cuba negotiate accord for Cuba to release "Bay of Pigs" captives in exchange for $23M worth of medicine and baby food [1]
- Dec 22 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
- Dec 22 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
- Dec 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Dec 23 AFL Championship, Jeppesen Stadium, Houston: Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers, 20-17; Tommy Brooker lands winning 25-yard field goal in overtime
- Dec 23 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
- Dec 24 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Dec 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Dec 28 UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
- Dec 31 Dutch leave New Guinea
- Dec 31 Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo
- Dec 31 Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs