18 June: the OAS, a terrorist organisation trying to force France to keep possession of Algeria, bombs the Paris-to-Strasbourg express train, killing dozens and injuring over 100. The newspaper splash above is found here. |
19 June: Kuwait, a British protectorate since 1899, gains independence (photo source.) Iraq's leader Abdul Karim Qasim, who seized power there in 1958, lays claim to Kuwait six days later. Britain sends forces to defend the country in Operation Vantage. |
21 June: the USA's first desalination plant opens in Freeport, Texas. |
(Image via 'Historic Photographs' Facebook page) |
24 June: despite a ban in Dade County, Florida, Henry Miller's controversial book 'Tropic of Cancer' is published in the USA by Grove Press, 27 years after its first publication in Europe. Booksellers are still threatened with prosecution for violating anti-obscenity laws; in 1964 the US Supreme Court rules that the book is not obscene because it has some redeeming social value.
Htp: Clint's labour-of love compilation https://www.sixtiescity.net/charts/61chart.htm
1 |
Surrender |
Elvis Presley |
RCA |
2 |
Runaway |
Del Shannon |
London |
3 |
Temptation |
The Everly Brothers |
Warner Brothers |
4 |
Pasadena |
The Temperance Seven |
Parlophone |
5 |
The Frightened City |
The Shadows |
Columbia |
6 |
Hello Mary Lou / Travellin' Man |
Ricky Nelson |
London |
7 |
You'll Never Know |
Shirley Bassey |
Columbia |
8 |
But I Do |
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry |
Pye |
9 |
Pop Goes The Weasel / Bee*Bom |
Anthony Newley |
Decca |
10 |
Halfway To Paradise |
Billy Fury |
Decca |
11 |
I Told Every Little Star |
Linda Scott |
Columbia |
12 |
A Girl Like You |
Cliff Richard and The Shadows |
Columbia |
13 |
Runnin' Scared |
Roy Orbison |
London |
14 |
More Than I Can Say |
Bobby Vee |
London |
15 |
Have A Drink On Me |
Lonnie Donegan |
Pye |
16 |
Well I Ask You |
Eden Kane |
Decca |
17 |
What'd I Say |
Jerry Lee Lewis |
London |
18 |
Little Devil |
Neil Sedaka |
RCA |
19 |
Weekend |
Eddie Cochran |
London |
20 |
Ring Of Fire |
Duane Eddy |
London |
1 comment:
Love that tune. There's a video on Youtube of Del Shannon singing Runaround Sue in some kind of posh club.
He's belting it out, but the audience all look a bit bored or bewildered. They were probably a bit old a posh for that stuff :-)
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