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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
This month in Harvard history
Jan. 9, 1961 - U.S. President-elect John F. Kennedy '40 visits Cambridge for a meeting of the Board of Overseers, attracting a huge swarm of well-wishers and news media in the Yard.
Jan. 14, 1963 - Harvard University Press celebrates 50 years of publishing, a milestone marked by the publication of a pamphlet on "The History of Harvard University Press" and the mounting of an extensive historical display in the lobby of Widener Library. The Press's current catalog includes some 2,000 titles.
Jan. 10, 1965 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference) preaches during Sunday services at the Memorial Church.
January 1967 - The Harvard mathematics team wins the intercollegiate title of the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, an all-day examination of 12 problems (mostly original). Top individual honors go to Marshall W. Buck '69, who bested 1,525 competitors.
Jan. 17-Feb. 25, 1968 - In collaboration with New York's Asia House Gallery, the Fogg Museum displays "The Arts of Medieval Japan: The Heian Period," an exhibition of about 60 works, largely from private U.S. collections.
- From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower
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