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| Assassination of Kennedy Fain, John |  |
| An FBI agent who opens a case file on Oswald after his defection to the Soviet Union |
| Birth of McEnroe, John McEnroe, John | |
| 16th Feb Wiesbaden Birth of John McEnroe |
| Citizenship Oswald Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 31st Oct Oswald attempts to renounce his USAcitizenship |
| Civil Disobedience King, Martin Luther | |
| Visits India to study nonviolence and civil disobedience |
| Death of Holly, Buddy Holly, Buddy | |
| Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens , and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richards on) are killed when a plane Buddy Holly had chartered from Mason City, Iowa, to Fargo, North Dakota crashes in a corn field |
| Death of Valens, Ritchie Valens, Ritchie | |
| 2nd Feb Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens , and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richards on) are killed when a plane Buddy Holly had chartered from Mason City, Iowa, to Fargo, North Dakota crashes in a corn field |
| Defection Oswald Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Oswald defects to the Soviet Union |
| Helsinki After a short stay in Helsinki Oswald gains a 6 day tourist visa to enter the Soviet Union |
| Helsinki When an application is rejected Oswald attempts suicide by cutting his wrist, is kept in hospital for a week & stays |
| Moscow Shows up at the USAEmbassy saying he wants to renounce his USAcitizenship |
| 10th Oct Helsinki Oswald takes a plane to Helsinki |
| 16th Oct Moscow Oswald arrives in Moscow |
| Discharge Oswald Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 11th Sep Oswald is released from active duty |
| Education of Dylan Zimmerman, Robert Allen | |
| 5th June Minnesota Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota |
| Government Eisenhower, Dwight David | |
| Geneva Attends but a treaty is not agreed due to USAopposition, the "big hole" theory |
| 9th Jan Alaska becomes the 49th state of the Union |
| Government Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Moscow Debates capitalism on TV with Krushchev in a model kitchen in the USAexhibition |
| Moscow Opens the American National exhibition in Moscow & has a televised "Kitchen Debate" |
| 31st Jan Washington Appointed Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on price stability for economic growth |
| 22nd July Moscow July 22-August 5, visits the Soviet Union & Poland |
| 22nd July Warsaw July 22-August 5, visits the Soviet Union & Poland |
| Motown Records Gordy, Berry | |
| Berry Gordy Jr. founds Motown record company to mass-market black music, the Miracles , "Shop Around" |
| Nobel Prize Chamberlain, Owen | |
| Discovers the existence of the antiproton while working on the Manhattan project |
| Publication of King King, Martin Luther | |
| Writes "The Measure of A Man", from which the piece "What is Man?", an attempt to sketch the optimal political, social, and economic structure of society, is derived |
| Suicide Attempt Oswald Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 21st Oct Oswald attempts suicide in the Hotel Berlin |
| World Champion Patterson, Floyd | |
| Patterson made four successful title defenses but his reign comes to an end when Sweden's Johansson knocked him out in the third round |
