Jill said:
Now this is fun!
Movies: Psycho, The Entertainer, The Apartment
Songs: Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Let's Do the Twist, Never on Sunday, Teen Angel, Stay, Are You Lonesome Tonight
TV Shows: Perry Mason, Bonanza, My Three Sons, The Untouchables, Andy Griffith Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Walt Disney Presents
Books: The Affair, C.P. Snow; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Allan Sillitoe; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; Rabbit, Run, John Updike; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer
Presidential candidates Kennedy and Nixon engage in a televised debate that helps set the precedent for future TV political coverage
Clark Gable dies
John F. Kennedy elected President in narrow contest over Richard Nixon
Black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC to protest segregated seating at the establishment; the event inspires a wave of such sit-ins across the South
U.S. relations with Cuba deteriorate as Castro regime seizes U.S. assets
First studies linking cigarette smoking with heart disease
First "Teflon" non-sticking cookware goes on sale at Macy's in New York
First oral contraceptives made available to the public
my guess is 1960. jfk was elected in '60 and sworn in in '61
all these event occurred during the month in which i was born
- Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
- Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend
- James Rupers kills his family to inherit
- 130, killed as USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes
- Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
- USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
- "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs
- Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
- "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 perfs
- "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 perfs
- Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo
- Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
- Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
- Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats NY 5-3)
- Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
- Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewer)
- JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
- Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"
- Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276
- Chad military coup by General Odingar
- Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
- Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead
- 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken
- Gabon amends constitution
- Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
- Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
- Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea Natl Day)
- Penguins 6-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead
- Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's 5-year war
- John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
- India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
- Tony Awards: Equus & Wiz win
- Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
- Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
- Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of W Germ in 2:42:24
- Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:55
- Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns
- Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24)
- Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead
- Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London
- Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
- Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election
- USSR performs underground nuclear test
- West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden
- Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
- Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3
- Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 HRs ties NL record of 11 HRs in the mont
- Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smother Brothers"
- South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president
- Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth
- Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
- Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders