We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that
we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
July 4, 1962
Birthdays:
Montreal Quebec - Founding of a secret revolutionary group in
Montreal called the Front de libération de Québec (FLQ).
Rogers Pass, BC - Prime Minister John Diefenbaker officially opens the Trans-Canada
Highway to traffic, eliminating the final 160 km of dusty, gravel road from Golden
to Revelstoke.
Running almost 4800 miles (9000 km), from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria
BC, the Trans Canada is the longest national highway in the world;
construction began in 1950.
The Johnny Carson Show airs for the first time.
Walter Cronkite host's the CBS News
1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
Robert Allen Zimmerman (borne May 24, 1945) legally changes his name to
Bob Dylan (August 9)
Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus (August 28)
John Glenn
US astronaut launched into earth orbit in Mercury capsule
Friendship VII; American becomes first American to orbit the earth. He would
return in 1998
Decca rejects the Beatles
Marilyn Monroe found dead at home in Hollywood
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In America there are two classes of travel—first class and with children. Robert Benchley (1889–1945), U.S. humorous writer. Quoted in:
The Algonquin Wits (ed. by Robert E. Drennan, 1968).
