The 58-story tall Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building) opened at 200 Park Avenue in New York City.Construction began on the Unisphere, a 120-foot diameter Earth globe and the symbol of the 1964 World's Fair in New York.The south saw temperatures rise above freezing and into the low 60s Fahrenheit (17 ☌). Many places saw their first frost-free night of the year and since before Christmas. Great Britain's longest, coldest winter in the 20th century started to come to an end, with the ground being snow-free for the first time since the blizzard over the Christmas period.In 1989, the structure would be expanded and become the Canberra Centre. Prime Minister Robert Menzies of Australia opened the new Monaro Shopping Centre, one of the first shopping malls in Australia, in Canberra.In China, the "Learn from Lei Feng" campaign was instituted by Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong, making a hero of the 21-year-old soldier who had been accidentally killed on August 15, 1962.The four were returning to Nashville from a benefit performance in Kansas City, Kansas, for country radio disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call, and had taken off in bad weather after refueling at Dyersburg, Tennessee. In Camden, Tennessee, 30-year-old country music superstar Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley) was killed in a plane crash along with fellow performers Harold "Hawkshaw" Hawkins, 41, and Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas, 49, and their manager, Randy Hughes, who was piloting the Piper Comanche airplane.William Carlos Williams, 79, American poet, of a stroke.Édouard Belin, 86, French inventor of the wirephoto process that allowed photographs to be transmitted to newspapers for reprinting.Kuwait was admitted to the United Nations by unanimous vote of the General Assembly, after the Soviet Union dropped its opposition to the emirate's membership.A break in the nearly three-month-long New York City newspaper strike saw the New York Post become the first of nine daily papers to settle with striking printers and to resume publication.Paul Jones, who had been the chief executive for the semi-sovereign Navajos since 1955, was defeated by Raymond Nakai, a radio announcer employed in Flagstaff, Arizona. For the first time, the election for the office of Chairman of the Tribal Council of the Navajo Nation was contested among multiple candidates.The painting was loaded onto a ship the next day for its return to Paris and the Louvre Museum. The Mona Lisa was displayed in the United States for the last time, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City closed at 9:00 pm.De Gaulle would pardon all but Bastien-Thiry, who would be executed by firing squad on March 11. Alain de Bougernet, and Jacques Prevost were put on death row. Three of the men- Georges Watin, Serge Bernier and Lajos Marton- had eluded capture and were tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia. In Paris, six people were sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.Born: Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia 2017-2021 in Ulaan Baatar.There were 3,096 voters who participated in the tiny principality. The parliamentary election in Monaco was won by the National and Democratic Union, which captured 17 of the 18 seats on the National Council.In a referendum in Senegal, voters agreed to abolish the office of Prime Minister of Senegal.General Lindley pledged to organize new presidential elections and to return Peru to civilian rule. General Ricardo Pérez Godoy, the President of Peru and leader of a four-man military junta that had taken power on July 18, 1962, was overthrown by the other three members of the junta, including his Defense Minister, General Nicolas Lindley Lopez.Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian Olympic pistol shooting champion and gold medalist in 19 in Ruse.Anthony Albanese, Australian politician, incumbent Prime Minister of Australia, in Darlinghurst, Sydney.
Pakistan gave up 2,700 square miles of Kashmir property that was also claimed by India, while gaining 750 square miles of land from China.
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