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The birth-defect-causing drug thalidomide is banned
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The Canadian dollar is pegged to the U.S. currency
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Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board
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The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals
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3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
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Canada is the third power to reach space with the launch of scientific satellite
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In the 1962 Federal election John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is reduced to a minority government
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Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
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First medicare plan is launched in Saskatchewan to great protest by doctors
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Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
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Trans-Canada Highway opens
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A Premiers Conference is held in Victoria, British Columbia
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The Beatles drummer Pete Best is fired and replaced by Ringo Starr
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NASA launches the Mariner 2 space probe
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Place Ville Marie opens in Montreal
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Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite is launched
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JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi
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was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States over russians wanting to bring missles into cuba because it is to close to the USA
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The Bedford Institute of Oceanography opens in Nova Scotia
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After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a non-optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
