Milestones: Jul. 8, 1966

Born. To Christine Keeler, 24, cash-and-carry-on playgirl in Britain's 1963 Profumo sex scandal; and James Levermore, 24, a civil engineer: their first child, a son; in London.

Died. Giuseppe ("Nino") Farina, 59, Italian auto racer who in 1950 was the first driver to be named World Grand Prix champion, but is almost as well remembered for surviving countless accidents, including one grisly debacle in Argentina in 1953, when he swerved to avoid a wandering child only to cut down five people in the crowd; of injuries following the crash of his Ford-Cortina-Lotus while pleasure-driving...

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