Art: Dali and Picasso auction off paintings to raise funds Oskar Kokoschka, Jean Renoir Music includes Shostakovich
Entertainment: Lawrence of Arabia debuts Albee publishes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Beatles' Love Me Do released Films include "Lawrence of Arabia" "Cleopatra" (Burton and Taylor) "The Manchurian Candidate"
Environment: "Silent Spring" published
Fashion: Yves St. Laurent opens fashion house
Finance: Trade Expansion Act passed
Literature: Writers include John Steinbeck, Camus, William Faulkner, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Robert Bolt (Man For All Seasons), Charles M Schultz, Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Rachel Carson (Silent Spring),
Medicine: German measles outbreak leaves 30,000 dead with babies born deaf and blind Anti-nausea drug thalidomide causes birth defects
Military: Britain and US reserve right to keep nuclear testing
Politics: U Thant elected UN secretary general
Religion: Vatican II convenes to institute reforms
Science: Watson and Crick win Nobel Prize for DNA Neel develops thrifty genotype hypothesis for fat storage
Mariner 2 passes Venus
Technology: First communications satellite launched - Telestar - and Comsat system created - First live broadcasts between US and Europe
Color TV first broadcast Microchips invented
Death: William Falkner, Hermann Hesse, QUeen Wilhelmina of Holland, Niels Bohr, Adolf Eichmann, ee cummings, Marilyn Monroe,
Eleanor Roosevelt
Africa
General: Loose confederation proposed
Algeria: End of war against French rule - Independence Ahmed Ben Bella named Premier
Burundi: Ruanda-Urundi leaves Belgian/UN control and splits forming Burundi and Rwanda
Congo: Adoula arrested
Kenya: Locusts
Rwanda: Ruanda-Urundi leaves Belgian/UN control and splits forming Burundi and Rwanda
South Africa: Death of Solomon Linda (Ntsele) musician who did original "Mbube" (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
Tanganyika: Schools closed because of six month outbreak of contagious laughter Independence
Uganda: Independence
Americas
Bahamas: Kennedy and P.M. MacMillan meet in Nassau
Brazil: Drought and fire
British West Indies: Independence
Cuba: Expelled from OAS (Latim American negotiations) Cuban Missile Crisis as Soviet bases discovered
Jamaica: Independence
Peru: 4000 killed in avalanche and landslide
Suriname: Netherlands Guiana renamed
Trinidad and Tobago: Independence
Asia
General: China challenges India in the Himilayas
South Korea: Export-led growth Leader condemned to death
South Vietnam: Australian troops and American advisors sent - the US troops
Europe
Austria: New Festival Theater created
France: Attempt on life of Charles de Gaulle Georges Pompidou forms government Georges Auric appointed head of French national opera
Great Britain: Beatles sign to EMI's Parlophone label with new drummer Ringo Starr Immigration limited London fog kills 136
BBC starts satirical revue "That Was the Week That Was" Coventry Cathedral consecrated
Royal College of Physicians issues first report on smoking and health
Commonwealth Immigrants Act passed in Britain to control immigration "Sunday Times" issues first colored supplement
Italy: Annexation of Tavolara
Soviet Union: Khrushchev calls Mao Zedong an "old boot" in Chinese, not knowing that this is slang for a prostitute - split between Russia and China
U-2 pilot Frances Gary Powers is traded for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel Khrushchev says he'll withdraw from Cuba if US removes missiles from Turkey – offer rejected
USSR scientist Chudinov revives fossil algae after 250 million years
Spain: Flash flood in Barcelona
Switzerland: Disarmament conference in Geneva
Vatican City: Second Vatican Council opens in Rome
West Germany: North Sea flooding with broken dykes
Middle East
Iran: Earthquake in north kills 10,000
Pacific
Samoa: Western Samoa becomes independent member of British Commonwealth
Culture: Mass hysteria in textile factory over fear of illness due to june bugs Civil rights protests in US and growth of Black Power movement through 1966
Joseph W Charles begins waving to cars – continues for 30 years,
Entertainment: Johnny Carson takes over "The Tonight Show"
Finance: Trade Expansion Act passed
Law: Engel V. Vitale clarifies separation of church and state, school prayer banned
Medicine: FDA requires three human clinical trials before approval – many pharmaceutical companies do phase 1 on prison inmates
German measles outbreak leaves babies blind and deaf to 1965
News: Printed papers at maxiin, including nine dailies in New York
Science: John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth
Sports: Sonny Liston beats Floyd Patterson in heavyweight boxing upset
Golf - Jack Nicklaus wins first major professional title and Palmer wins Masters
Technology: Color television broadcast
East
Maine: Worst blizzard produces 42 inches of snow
Maryland: Experimental acne antibiotics causes severe liver damage
Massachusetts: Protestant Episcopal Church consecrates first black bishop in US
Pennsylvania: Mine disaster kills 37
Midwest
South
Florida: 17 killed by tornado in Milton 12-degree temps destroy citrus crop in north moving production south
Mississippi: U of Mississippi integrated by Supreme Court ruling - riots break out when James Meredith attends under help of 3000 soldiers
Texas: Sheppard Air Force Base in Witchita Falls TX hit with tornado