bars of its cage and killed her. The child had squeezed underneath a chicken wire restraining fence after deciding to feed popcorn to the elephant. The British naphtha tanker Alva Cape, whose cargo had exploded and killed 33 people on June 16, was being unloaded of its remaining volatile cargo when a new explosion killed four more people. Parkfield, California, which lies along the southern Calaveras Fault, a branch of the larger San Andreas Fault, was struck by 6.0 magnitude earthquake, its sixth in less than 110 years. Tremors of at least 6.0 had already shaken Parkfield on January 9, 1857; February 2, 1881; March 3, 1901; March 10, 1922; and January 8, 1934. Born: John Cusack, American film actor (Being John Malkovich), in Evanston, Illinois Mary Stuart Masterson, American film actress (Fried Green Tomatoes), in New York City Died: Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, 75, Turkish scholar and historian Kenneth Miller Adams, 68, American artist June 29, 1966 (Wednesday) At 1:50 p.m. local time, 16 A-6 Intruder fighter-bombers and 12 support aircraft took off from the aircraft carriers Constellation and Ranger to carry out the first American bombing of North Vietnam's largest cities, striking at fuel and oil facilities near Haiphong, the nation's second biggest city. Twenty-five minutes later, at 2:15, the U.S. Seventh Air Force struck at the capital, Hanoi fuel storage tanks with 25 F-105 Thunderchief fighters."Jets Raid Oil Depots At Hanoi, Haiphong", Pittsburgh Press, June 29, 1966, p1 However, a CIA report two months later would conclude that the daring raids had escalated the war, but failed to have the expected impact, noting "there is no evidence that the air strikes have significantly weakened popular morale." The first British credit card was introduced, as Barclays Bank introduced the Barclaycard, The executives of the National Union of Seamen voted 29–16 to end the merchant seamen's strike that had tied up British harbors for 43 days and left almost 900 ships at anchor. Ships began sailing again shortly after midnight on July 1. China tested its first missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, though an actual armed missile would not be launched until October 25. Philippine Airlines Flight 785 (a Douglas C-47A, registration PI-C17) crashed into a ravine near Sablayan in a combination of bad weather and pilot error, killing 26 of the 28 people on board."Find 26 Bodies in Philippine Plane Crash", Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1966, p7