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serial	2125
year	1966
month	6
day	16
event	20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
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6/1 - 2p~400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights

6/1 - Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic

6/1 - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW

6/2 - US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum: 1st lunar soft-landing

6/3 - European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)

6/3 - Gemini 9 launched: 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)

6/4 - 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6

6/4 - -10] Hurricane Almap~ kills 51 in Honduras

6/4 - Batman & His Grandmother by Dickie Goodman hits #70

6/5 - Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader

6/5 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational

6/6 - "Stokely Carmichael launches ""Black Power"" movement"

6/6 - NFL & AFL announce their merger

6/6 - "Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with ""angry alligator"""

6/6 - Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed

6/6 - Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi

6/7 - NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1

6/8 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970

6/8 - "Topekap~ 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 killedp~ hundreds more injuredp~ and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed."

6/9 - 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollinsp~ Zolio Versailesp~ Tony Olivap~ Don Michnerp~ & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4

6/10 - "Mamas & Papas win gold record for ""Mondayp~ Monday"""

6/10 - Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)

6/10 - Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senatorp~ 2-0

6/10 - "Beatles record ""Rainp~"" 1st to use reverse tapes"

6/10 - "Beatles ""Paperback Writer"" is released in UK"

6/11 - Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF)

6/11 - French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry

6/11 - Sloop John B by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK

6/11 - Skyscraper closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs

6/11 - Paint Itp~ Black by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1

6/11 - On A Clear Day You... closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs

6/11 - I Am A Rock by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3

6/11 - (I'm A) Road Runner by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20

6/12 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational

6/12 - Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan

6/13 - Supreme Court's Miranda decision: suspect must be informed of rights

6/14 - Dutch police beat construction workersp~ 60 injured

6/14 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball

6/16 - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win

6/16 - Rowan & Martin Showp~ debuts on NBC-TV

6/17 - Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers

6/19 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open

6/20 - 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF

6/20 - Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman

6/21 - Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam

6/22 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens

6/24 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I

6/24 - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz)p~ 117 die

6/25 - "Beatles' ""Paperback Writerp~"" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks"

6/25 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphonyp~ premieres in Leningrad

6/25 - Kosmos 122p~ 1st Soviet weather satellitep~ launched

6/26 - Time for Singing closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 perfs

6/26 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational

6/26 - Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland

6/27 - "1st sci-fi soap operap~ ""Dark Shadowsp~"" premieres on ABC-TV"

6/27 - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game: Yanks beat Mets 5-2

6/28 - Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title

6/29 - In the Vietnam Warp~ US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time

6/29 - KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angelesp~ CA begins

6/29 - US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities

6/30 - Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour

6/30 - Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa

6/30 - Richath Helmsp~ promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA

6/30 - Test cricket debut of Derek Underwoodp~ v WI Trent Bridgep~ wicketless

6/30 - Vice Adm William F Raborn Jrp~ USNp~ ends term as 7th director of CIA

1966-6-16

20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win