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All Events
Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple is produced in New York
Australia sends a first contingent of 1500 troops to fight in Vietnam
Ralph Nader begins a long career in consumer protection with Unsafe at Any Speed, attacking the US automobile industry
18-year-old Dutch footballer Johann Cruyff joins Ajax, the club with which he will be associated in numerous successes
18-year-old Austrian body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Junior Mr Europe (on his way to Mr World and Mr Universe)
Singapore leaves the Federation of Malaysia to become again an independent state
Defence minister Houari Boumédienne leads a coup to oust President Ben Bella in Algeria
Ferdinand Marcos wins a landslide victory in the Philippines presidential election
Student demonstrations against Ne Win's rule become regular occurrences, suppressed with military violence
Terence O'Neill and Séan Lemass, prime ministers of Northern Ireland and Ireland, have two unprecedented meetings
Maria Callas gives her last performance, as Tosca at Covent Garden in London
An exhibition in New York, 'The Responsive Eye', puts op art on the map
President Johnson introduces affirmative action as a legislative policy to redress social inequalities
Zahir Shah allows the first elections in his kingdom of Afghanistan
US choreographer Robert Joffrey founds a new company that becomes known (from 1977) as the Joffrey Ballet
US author Randall Jarrell's poem The Lost World provides the title for his last published book
Stanley Matthews plays his last game for Stoke City after 34 years as a professional football player
Riots break out in the Watts area of Los Angeles
After a summer of border skirmishes in Pakistan, an Indian advance towards Lahore initiates full-scale war between the two countries
A UN-sponsored cease-fire brings the second Indo-Pakistan war to an end after less than three weeks
Karaoke (abbreviated from the Japanese for 'empty orchestra') evolves in Japan
Based on interviews given to Alex Haley in 1964, a life of Malcolm X is published soon after his assassination
Mobutu stages his second coup in the Congo and this time takes power as president
Footballer Franz Beckenbauer plays his first international for West Germany
Ian Smith makes a unilateral declaration of Rhodesia's independence
