Eastern and Western European countries continue their dispute over Berlin air rights; Western planes flying over East Berlin are harassed by Soviet fighter jets.

9 Aug.

German-born Swiss writer and 1946 Nobel Prize laureate Hermann Hesse dies at age eighty-five in Montagnola, Switzerland.

14 Aug.

Violence between East and West Berliners continues along the Berlin Wall as an East German patrolman is killed in an exchange of gunfire.

21 Aug.

Soviet cosmonauts contradict Western reports that their two spaceships docked when they tell reporters that the spaceships had not come within three miles of each other.

28 Sept.

A Canadian satellite, the first satellite designed and built by a country other than the United States or the Soviet Union, is launched into orbit from California.

8 Oct.

The U.S. Defense Department reports that forty-six American soldiers have died in Vietnam since U.S. large-scale intervention in the Vietnamese war began in 1961.

20 Oct.

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