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Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
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Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
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1/1 - Neth Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
1/1 - Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
1/2 - US population is 293p~200p~000: Black population: 22p~600p~000 (11.1%)
1/2 - "Dutch premiere of musical ""Hair"" in Amsterdam"
1/3 - Jimmy closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances
1/3 - Mame closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
1/3 - Marxist government takes over in Congo
1/3 - WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstownp~ MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1/4 - Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
1/4 - NYC transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 centsp~ new larger tokens used
1/4 - Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game
1/4 - KC Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game
1/4 - Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
1/5 - 23p~000 Belgian mine workers strike
1/5 - KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichitap~ KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1/5 - "Soap Opera ""All My Childrenp~"" premieres on ABC"
1/9 - Constitution of Singapore enacted
1/10 - Preview Center Opens
1/11 - Super Bowl IV: KC Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikingsp~ 23-7 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Len Dawsonp~ Kansas Cityp~ QB
1/12 - Biafran War endsp~ Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
1/12 - Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage
1/12 - Biafra capitulatesp~ ending the Nigerian civil war.
1/15 - Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's)
1/15 - Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
1/16 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
1/16 - "AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3_"" from out of boundsp~ Tacoma-it shouldn't have countedp~ but was allowed"
1/16 - NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)
1/16 - Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause
1/16 - Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
1/17 - 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
1/17 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3
1/17 - John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
1/17 - Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
1/18 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13
1/18 - Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
1/19 - Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest
1/19 - Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
1/19 - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
1/20 - 20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia
1/20 - 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis
1/20 - Super Fightp~ computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano
1/21 - PanAm Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
1/22 - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flightp~ NY to London in 6_ hours
1/22 - Test debut of Barry Richardsp~ South Africa v Australiap~ Cape Town
1/23 - Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
1/23 - Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam
1/23 - US launches 2nd generation weather satellitep~ ITOS 1
1/23 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1/24 - Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
1/24 - 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
1/25 - Robert Altman's M*A*S*H premieres
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