Entertainment: Writers include Saul Bellow, William Golding, Sartre, CP Snow, Gore Vidal, Arthur Miller, Ernest Hemingway (posth),
John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., Randolph Churchill Picasso paints
Films include "Lord of the Flies" "A Hard Day's Night" "Goldfinger" "Zorba the Greek" "Mary Poppins" "My Fair Lady"
Music includes Gustav Mahler, Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly), Jerry Bock (Fiddler on the Roof)
Fashion: George Barrie buys Faberge and introduces Brut cologne
Science: Harland and Rudwick publish theory of ice age in late Precambrian Homo habilus described by Leakey
Fundamental partical omega-minus discovered using Nimrod-cyclotron Hoyle and Marlikar postulate new gravitational theory
Technology: Tough-tone phone service begins
Deaths: General Douglas MacArthur, Herbert Hoover, Cole Porter, Maxwell William Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), Ian Fleming (ENG), Peter Lorre,
Silent Spring author Rachel Carson Founder of cybernetice Norbert Wiener
Africa
Algeria: Explosion when ship in harbor loaded with ammunition ignites
Congo: Moise Tshombe becomes Premier and declares People's Republic
Kenya: Republic with omo Kenyatta as president
Nyasaland: Split from Rhodesia - see Malawi
Malawi: Smallpox outbreak Independence (See Rhodesia)
Rhodesia: Splits to Nyasaland (later Malawi), Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia), and Southern Rhodesia (later Rhodesia and Zimbabwe) - Ian Smith elected Premier of S Rhodesia
Tanganyika: see Tanzania
Tanzania: Zanzibar and Tanganyika unite to form new country - Julius Nyerere presides
Zambia: Independence (See Rhodesia) - Kenneth Kaunda becomes President
Zanzibar: see Tanzania - declared a republic – sultan banished
Americas
Canada: Queen Elizabeth visits Tsunami from Alaska quake
Chile: Villarrica erupts
Haiti: Hurricane
Panama: Riots in Canal Zone
Peru: 300 spectators killed in soccer riot in Lima
Asia
General: War between Indonesia and Malaysia
China: Flooding in Mekong delta
East Pakistan: Storm, tornado and flood kills 500
India: President Pandit Nehru dies – succeeded as Prime Minister by Lal Bahadur Shastri
Japan: Olympic Games in Tokyo Flood Earthquake and tsunami
Java: Famine
Philippines: Storms including typhoon
Vietnam: War between Communist North and US-backed South
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passes US asserts military to resist aggression Tongking (Tonkin) Gulf Crisis USS Maddox allegedly attacked
Europe
General: Princess Irene of Netherlands marries Spanish Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma
Cyprus: Fighting between Greeks and Turks in - UN troops sent to maintain peace - General Grivas named commander of Greek Cypirot forces – Makarios abrogates 1960 treaty between Greece Turkey and Cyprus but Greece rejects direct talks
France: De Gaulle tours S America
Great Britain: Alec Douglas-Home resigns as British Prime Minister succeeded by Harold Wilson - Labour Party Exploration of North Sea for oil and gas
Winston Churchill makes last appearance before House of Commons shortly before 90th birthday British bank raises interest rate to 7 percent
Harold Wilson visits Washington Shakespeare Quartercentenary Expo The Windmill Theater of London "We Never Close" closes as vaudeville theater
"Art of a Decade" expo in London "Brain Drain" British scientists emigrate to US British government changes August Bank Holiday to last Monday in month
Easter outbreak of Mods v. Rockers disturb British sea resorts Sentences totaling 307 years for British mail-train robbers "Daily Herald" in London closes
death of British cricketer Sir Jack Hobbs
Greece: King Paul I of Greece dies and son Constantine II rules
Malta: Independence in Commonwealth
Soviet Union: Khrushchev removed from power and Brezhnev leads Kosygin becomes premier Chou En-lai visits Moscow
Middle East
General: Arafat takes over leadership of Arab guerrilla force Al Fatah
Israel: Pope Paul VI makes pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Palestine: PLO organized in Palestine/Jerusalem Storms kill 332
Saudi Arabia: King Faud deposed and son Faisal proclaimed king
Pacific
Australia: Final hanging of Eric Edgar Cooke who randomly killed strangers
Pres: Lindon B. Johnson elected over Republican Barry Goldwater
General
Crime: Jack Ruby sentenced to death for killing Lee Harvey Oswald – dies of cancer next year Race riots in US cities
Commission appointed by President Johnson under Chief Justice Earl Warren concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
James Hoffa president of Teamsters Union found guilty of jury tampering and sentenced
Culture: Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Prize Smiley face symbol invented – not trademarked
Education: Start of decline of SAT scores nationwide
Entertainment: Beatlemania follows arrival and appearance on Ed Sullivan "Bewitched" "Gomer Pyle USMC" and "The Fugitive" reach top tv
Musical artists include The Beatles, The Drifters, Herman's Hermits, Elvis Presley, Beach Boys "The Munsters" debuts
"Fiddler on the Roof" "Hello Dolly" and "Funny Girl" debut on Broadway Sidney Portier wins Academy Award
Popular dances include Watusi, Frug, Monkey, Funky Chicken, and other varieties of the twist – go-go dancers popular
Addams Family debuts on television based on Charles Addams cartoons in the New Yorker Elizabeth Taylor divorces Eddie Fisher and weds Richard Burton 10 days later
end of "The Twilight Zone" Peyton Place premiers as first prime-time soap opera Color TV becomes popular
Gracie Allen comedienne and wife of George Burns dies
Finance: Silver coins phased out
Law: 24th amendment bans poll tax Civil Rights Act passes Congress
Economic Opportunity Act passes
Medicine: American doctors repeat Schultz's 1910 experiments on self hypnosis and finds body heat could be controlled
Chemotherapy used to treat cancer
Military: US Army pays researchers to give mind-altering drugs to prisoners
Science: Ranger VII launched showing close-up photographs of moon's surface Dow Chemical pays researchers to see how dioxin affects human skin
Genetic explanation offered for altruism
Sports: Cassius Clay wins world heavyweight boxing title, joins nation of Islam and changes name to Muhammad Ali
East
General: Possible tsunami
New York: Hepatitis given to severely retarded children World's Fair Gallery of Modern Art opens
Race riots in Harlem Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (longest suspension bridge) opens in NY
Midwest
South
West and Pacific
Alaska: Prince William Sound quake registers between 8.6 and 9.2 killing about 125 Tsunami
Oregon: Tsunami from Alaska quake
Utah: Ken Hubbs Chicago Cubs second baseman killed in Provo plane crash