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In the News... ● Three Apollo astronauts - Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger Chaffee - killed in spacecraft fire during simulated launch (Jan. 27). ● Biafra secedes from Nigeria (May 30). ● Israeli and Arab forces battle; six-day war ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and east bank of Suez Canal (June 5). ● Red China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb (June 17). ● Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks occur in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn. (July 23). ● Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black U.S. Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2). ● Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3) - patient dies 18 days later. Automotive History ● The Rover Company merges with the Leyland Motor Corporation (UK). ● Hyundai Motor Car company founded as a part of the Hyundai group. (KOREA) |