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serial	930
year	1964
month	8
day	5
event	US begins bombing North Vietnam
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8/1 - ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation

8/1 - "Beatles' ""Hard Day's Nightp~ Ap~"" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks"

8/2 - Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees

8/2 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open

8/2 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin

8/4 - North Vietnamese torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin

8/4 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwernerp~ Andrew Goodman & James E Chaneyp~ bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam

8/5 - "Beatles record ""Leave My Kitten Alone"""

8/5 - Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville

8/5 - Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner

8/5 - US begins bombing North Vietnam

8/6 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam

8/6 - Prometheusp~ the world's oldest treep~ is cut down.

8/7 - US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution

8/7 - Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots

8/7 - 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28p~ All-Stars 17 (65p~000)

8/8 - 110 in the Shade closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 perfs

8/8 - Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam

8/8 - Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert

8/9 - 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands

8/9 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational

8/9 - Bunning continues pitching perfectly to NY Mets until 2 outs in 5thp~ when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings

8/10 - WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbusp~ GA (PBS) begins broadcasting

8/11 - "Beatles' ""A Hard Days Night"" opens in NYC"

8/11 - Race riot in Paterson NJ

8/12 - 10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a gamep~ one goes 502 feet

8/12 - Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game

8/12 - Race riot in Elizabeth NJ

8/13 - 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire

8/14 - Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market

8/14 - Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer

8/15 - Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)

8/15 - Phillies triple-play NY Mets

8/15 - Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill

8/15 - "Ralph Boston of USp~ sets then long jump record at 27' 3_"""

8/16 - St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader

8/16 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational

8/17 - Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket centuryp~ 113 v Aust at the Oval

8/18 - USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites

8/18 - South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies

8/18 - Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon

8/18 - Beatles arrive in SFp~ 2nd US visit

8/19 - Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched

8/20 - LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion

8/20 - President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act

8/20 - Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings

8/22 - "Supreme's ""Where Did Our Love Gop~"" reaches #1"

8/22 - Guineep~ Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market

8/23 - Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament

8/23 - St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NLp~ & win World Series

8/24 - 2nd Mayor's Trophy Gamep~ Yanks beat Mets 6-4

8/25 - Singapore limits imports from Neth due to Indonesian aggression

8/26 - Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman

8/26 - LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic Cityp~ NJ

8/28 - "WEWS-TV Channel 5's ""Upbeat"" debuts in Cleveland"

8/28 - US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched

8/28 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

8/28 - Race riot in Philadelphia

8/29 - Funny Thing Happened closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 perfs

8/29 - "Walt Disney's ""Mary Poppins"" released"

8/30 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open

8/31 - Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadiump~ future home of Angels

1964-8-5

US begins bombing North Vietnam