Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
Cash Box Top 100 placed The Beatles 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' at #1.
NASA launched the Echo 2 experimental communications satellite.
The world's largest cheese weighing 34,591 lbs (15,723 kg) was manufactured.
The plans to construct the World Trade Center in New York City were announced to the public.
British band, The Beatles made it onto the US Billboard Hot 100 for the first time.
Luther Terry, the US Surgeon General, released a report concluding smoking cigarettes is bad for you.
During his State of the Union address, US President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a 'War on Poverty.'
