September 16. Vice Minister of Education Teng Chuan-kai returns from Paris after attending the 13th annual convention of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession.
18. An economic goodwill mission headed by K. T. Li, chairman of the Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development, leaves for Guam.
19. China and Senegal sever diplomatic relations.
22. Vietnamese Education Minister Dui Tuong Huan arrives for an observation tour.
Thirty-five Italian naval cadets arrive for a three-day visit.
23. Lim Swee Aun, Malaysian Minister of Industry and Commerce, arrives for a week's visit.
A 20-member Chinese table tennis team leaves for Seoul to take part in the seventh Asian championships.
Martin Wong, economic counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, leaves for the United States after 12-day home consultations.
24. Thomas Cardinal Tien, administrator apostolic of Taipei, returns from a five-month visit to the United States.
25. Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan decorates Luis A. Colmenares, outgoing Minister of Venezuela, with the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon on behalf of the Chinese government.
China and Mexico sign a trade agreement in Mexico City.
27. A seven-member goodwill mission of the Malaysian Airways arrives for a three-day visit.
28. The nation observes the 2,514th birthday of Confucius.
Cheng Tien-fong, chief Chinese delegate to the 13th convention of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, leaves for Paris to attend the meeting.
29. A five-member Japanese construction technical mission arrives for a week's visit.
October 1. Arsene Rakotovahiny, new Malagasy ambassador to China, arrives.
Yuan I-chin, new director general of the Academia Sinica, returns from the United States to assume his post.
2. Henry Luce, editorial chairman of Time and Life, arrives for a five-day visit.
4. Arrives Fischer, a West German woman sinologist, arrives for a month's visit.
6. The Economic Development Exposition opens in Taipei.
The Chinese delegation to the 18th Olympic Games leaves for Tokyo.
New Brazilian Ambassador Milton Telles Ribeiro presents credentials to President Chiang.
China and Uruguay sign a treaty of amity in Taipei.
Cire Ba, information minister of Upper Volta, arrives for a 12-day visit.
Ambassador to Korea Liang Hsu-chao returns from Seoul to prepare for the official visit of Korean Premier Chung II Kwon.
7. A 15-man Chinese military advisory mission headed by Lt. Gen. Teng Ting-yuan leaves for Saigon.
8. Korean Premier Chung Il Kwon arrives for a five-day official visit.
The Executive Yuan (cabinet) appoints Gen. Hu Lien as ambassador to Saigon to replace Yuan Tse-kien. Yuan is named ambassador to Ankara.
9. Ambassador to the United States Tingfu F. Tsiang decorates former U.S. Ambassador to China Karl L. Rankin with the Grand Cordon of the Order of Brilliant Star on behalf of the Chinese government.
11. China and the Dominican Republic sign a trade agreement in Santo Domingo.
12. China and Korea initial a treaty of amity in Taipei.
Gen. Omar Porciuncula, former commander-in-chief of the Uruguayan Army, arrives for a week's visit.
13. Adm. Ni Yue-si, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Navy, is decorated with the Legion of Merit by Undersecretary Paul B. Fay Jr. of the U.S. Navy Department on behalf of the U.S. government.
China and the Leopoldville Congo sign an agricultural technical cooperation agreement in Taipei.
Shu Shih-ying, senior adviser to President Chiang Kai-shek and ambassador to Japan at the time of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, dies at 9l.
15. The fourth agricultural seminar for Africans is closed.