Entertainment: Writers include Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons), Ezra Pound, Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird), Gore Vidal, Sartre
Films include Exodus, Psycho (Hitchcock), The Entertainer (Olivier)
Fashion: Pierre Cardin licenses name for products Mary Quant in London launches "Twiggy" look
Medicine: Outbreak of El Tor cholera worldwide
Religion: Women no longer required to cover heads in Catholic Church
Science: Sandage and Matthews discover quasars Jane Goodall begins chimp observations
US launches radio-reflector satellite Optical microwave laser constructed RL Mossbauer makes gamma ray discoveries
Strell and Woodward independently synthesize chlorophyll KH Hofmann synthesizes pituitary hormone
GN Robinson discovers methicillin Triton submarine circumnavigates globe under water US scientists develop laser device
USA and FRA dive in bathyscaphe Trieste to 35,800 feet in Pacific trench "Challenger Deep" (deepest dive) First weather satellite Tiros I launched to show cloud cover on TV
Large solar flare recorded causing disturbances Pole shift evidence discovered Hardy promotes aquatic ape hypothesis
Sports: 296 pound yellowfin tuna caught by Dr. A Cordeiro
Technology: Pioneer V launched - first with working laser Theodore Maiman builds first working laser
Death: Oscar Hammerstein II, Albert Camus, Boris Pasternak, Clark Gable, Maurice de Broglie, Sylvia Pankhurst suffragette leader, Emily Post,
Africa
General: Move to independence French nuclear tests in the Sahara
Angola: President leaves and attempted revolution suppressed
Chad: Independence from French Equatorial Afirca
Congo: Mutiny against ruling Belgians - name change from Belgian Congo
Dahomey: Independence and renamed from French West Africa (Later Benin)
Egypt: Work begins on Aswan High Dam financed by USSR
Gabon: Independence from French Equatorial Africa
Katanga: Independence from Congo to 1963
Kenya: Splits from British East Africa
Mali: Mali Federation renamed Mali
Middle Congo: Independence from French Equatorial Africa
Morocco: Earthquake and tsunami kill 12,000 Independence
Nigeria: Independence
Senegal: Breaks apart from Mali Federation
Somalia: Independence and name change from British Somaliland
South Africa: Withdrawal from commonwealth Police kill 67 blacks in Sharpeville massacre
Sudan: Independence - changes name to Mali Republic Civil war
Tanganyika: Split from British East Africa
Ubangi-Shari: Independence from French Equatorial Africa (also called Central African Republic)
Uganda: Splits from British East Africa
Zaire: Independence Civil war
Zanzibar: Split from British East Africa
Americas
General: Latin America forms weak alliance for trade - Central American Common Market formed with El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
Brazil: Defective rabies serum leaves 120 ill Brasilia founded as capital, replacing Rio
Canada: Native Canadians (Indians) given the vote
Chile: 9.2-9.5 Earthquake in Valdiva and tsunami kill at least 5700 - largest recorded Eruptions and quakes
Guatemala: Guatemala City Insane Asylum fire kills 225
Puerto Rico: Hurricane
Asia
Cambodia: Khmer Rouge guerillas active
China: Treaty with Nepal Alliance with Soviets dissolve
East Pakistan: Cyclone and wave kills 10,000
India: Cyclone and waves
Japan: Japanese socialist Inejiro Asanuma stabbed to death on live television
North Vietnam: Hanoi forms National Liberation Front to operate in South
Philippines: Typhoon Lucille follows wave caused by Chilean earthquake
South Korea: Leader Syngman Rhee rescued by CIA after fixing election and embezzling - alleged election fraud
Tibet: Chinese take control and Dalai Lama flees
Europe
General: Former Gestapo chief Adolf Eichmann arrested
European Free Trade forms with AUS, DEN, POR, GBR, NOR, SWE, SWI but starts to fall apart in 1973 when some countries leave for EEC
Belgium: King Baudouin marries Dona Fabiola of Spain
Cyprus: Independent republic with Archbishop Makarios as president
France: Khrushchev, Macmillan, Eisenhower, and de Gaulle meet in Paris but talks fail
Great Britain: Archbishop Fisher of Canterbury visits Jerusalem, Istanbul, and Rome Picasso exhibition at Tate Gallery London
Churchill College at Cambridge founded Prince Andrew born to Elizabeth II – first monarch to give birth since 1857 – Princess Margaret marries
Ireland: First sighting of Monster of Lough Brin – like a seal and dragon
Italy: Olympic Games in Rome
Soviet Union: American U2 reconnaissance plane shot down with pilot Gary Powers Khrushchev visits India, Burma, and Indonesia
Brezhnev becomes President of USSR Nedelin disaster – 100 Soviet rocket technicians die when rocket ignites
Sweden: Three women admitted to ministry of Swedish Lutheran Church
West Germany: Neo-Nazi groups banned in Germany
Middle East
General: OPEC formed in middle east
Afghanistan: Ex-King Amanullah dies
North Yemen: Joins United Arab Republic to 1961
Syria: Fire kills 152 children at film program
Turkey: Coup
Pacific
Antarctica: Antarctica reserved for scientific research by International agreement
Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower Pres: John F. Kennedy elected over Richard Nixon
General
Crime: Caryl Chessman executed after 12 years of appeals at San Quentin
Culture: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded
Entertainment: Payola scandal - Dick Clark must testify before congress regarding Alan Freed Camelot debuts on Broadway
Dances include Chubby Checker's "Twist" Psycho becomes most graphic and sensational movie of the day
Charles Van Doren arrested for perjury in game show "21" scandal
Medicine: American Heart Association issues report on death and smoking
Military: U2 reconnaissance plane shot down over Soviet Union with pilot Francis Gary Powers
Politics: Historic TV debates between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon with viewership of 70 million
Science: Pioneer V launched - first working laser
Sports: Bobby Fischer age 16 defends chess title Floyd Patterson regains heavyweight boxing title Arnold Palmer wins US Open
Technology: US experimental rocket-powered airplane travels almost 2200 mph
East
General: Hurricane from New England south
Midwest
Ohio: Start of high-dose radiation to cancer patients in Cincinnati – low-IQ negroes experimented on
South
General: Heavy snows cause buildings to collapse Hurricane hits east coast down to Florida
Louisiana: Ruby Bridges of New Orleans desegregates the 1st grade
North Carolina: Four black youths stage sit-in in Greensboro