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| 01 - French Cameroon
becomes the Republic of Cameroon with Ahmadun Ahidjo as its first
president |
| 04 - French Nobel
prize-winning novelist Albert Camus is killed in a car crash, aged 46 |
| 11 - Vicky Peterson of
The Bangles is born |
| 12 - British author Nevil
Shute dies (b.1899) |
| 14 -
Khrushchev says the
USSR will cut its armed forces by 1.2 million over the next two years |
| 15 - The FB Holden is
released in Australia |
| 18 - Argentina, Brazil,
Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay establish the Latin American Free
Trade Association (LAFTA) |
| 19 - USA and Japan sign a
treaty of mutual cooperation and security |
| 20 - UK Government curbs
the sale of 'pep pills' |
| 22 - Michael Hutchence of
Australian rock group INXS is born |
| 23 - Swiss engineer Jacques
Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh dive to the bottom of the
Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench - at 35,813 feet, the lowest point on
Earth - aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste |
| 24 - In Algeria, French
settlers riot in response to President de Gaulle's sacking of
Commander Jacques Massu |
| 27 - Heat wave in Sydney,
Australia, kills 13 people |
| 27 - Legendary British record producer Joe
Meek launches his own label, Triumph Records |
| 01 - At Greensboro, North
Carolina (USA) four black students defy a whites-only rule and sit in
at a Woolworth's lunch counter. The sit in tactic spreads as the civil
rights movement gathers pace |
| 02 - French MPs give de
Gaulle emergency powers |
| 02 - En route to North America after
completing his national service in Germany, Elvis
Presley stops for refueling at Prestwick Airport in Scotland.
Presley steps on British soil for the first and only time in his
life, and chats with local fans |
| 03 - In South Africa,
British PM Harold Macmillan makes his famous "wind of change" speech
in Cape Town urging South Africa to abandon its policy on apartheid |
| 04 - Appearing at the Sands
night club in Las Vegas - Frank
Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis
Jr.,
Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop |
| 09 - A bomb explodes at the
home of one of the first black students to attend Little Rock Central
High School, USA |
| 13 - An atomic bomb is
exploded by France in the Sahara Desert, despite UN and US opposition |
| 16 - US nuclear submarine USS
Triton sets off on the first underwater voyage around the world
without resurfacing |
| 17 -
Martin Luther King
arrested for perjury in connection with his state income taxes in
1956 |
| 19 - Queen Elizabeth II
gives birth to a son, Andrew Albert Christian Edward |
| 21 - Fidel Castro nationalizes private business in Cuba |
| 25 - Australia agrees to
make available two satellite tracking stations for US space program |
| 01 - Moroccan earth quake
kills at least 1,000 |
| 01 - Free Medicine Scheme
ends in Australia. From now on each prescription will cost five
shillings, except for pensioners |
| 05 - Sgt
Elvis Presley is
discharged from the US Army |
| 07 - Arthur Calwell is
elected new Australian Labor Party leader |
| 07 - Tennis player Ivan
Lendl is born |
| 09 - Martin Luther King
urges Eisenhower to intervene to defuse racial tension in Montgomery,
Alabama |
| 13 - Adam Clayton of Irish
rock band, U2, is born |
| 14 - Martial law is
declared in the Belgian Congo after unrest in which 14 people die |
| 15 - Syngman Rhee wins his
fourth presidential election in South Korea. Allegations of fraud
lead to Rhee's resignation weeks later |
| 16 - Eisenhower advises
Southern states to set up bi-racial talks to hear black grievances |
| 21 - At a demonstration in
Sharpeville, South Africa, police open fire on unarmed protesters,
killing some 70 people and injuring 180 |
| 21 Capital of Brazil moves
from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia |
| 25 - Oliver Cromwell's head
is buried at Sydney Sussex College in Cambridge, England. His head
parted company with his body in 1660 |
| 25 - In the aftermath of
the Sharpeville massacre, the South African government outlaws all
non-white political organisations, including the ANC (African
National Congress). |
| 26 - Merryman II wins the
English Grand National |
| 30 A state of emergency is
declared in South Africa as 30,000 blacks demand the release of their
leaders |
| 01 - First weather
satellite, Tiros I, is put into space |
| 05 - Ben Hur wins a
record ten Oscars |
| 07 - Blacks riot against
apartheid in Durban |
| 09 - South African Prime
Minister Hendrik Verwoerd shot in Johannesburg |
| 13 - Racing driver Stirling
Moss loses his drivers license for a year for dangerous driving |
| 17 - Eddie Cochran dies in
a car crash on the A4 near Chippenham in Wiltshire, England. Gene
Vincent suffers minor injuries in the same accident |
| 18 - Discoverer XIV
launches the first US spy satellite |
| 19 - In Korea, Rhee
declares martial law as police shoot dead 30 marchers protesting
against "rigged" elections |
| 19 - Flood of East Germans
in flight to West |
| 21 - The newly formed
Commonwealth Police force begins operation in Australia |
| 21 - Brasilia replaces Rio
de Janeiro as capital of Brazil |
| 21 - Rhee's cabinet resigns
in Seoul after 115 protesters were reported killed by police |
| 25 - Ten blacks are shot in
a Mississippi race riot after blacks gather on a segregated beach |
| 25 - Australian pubs and
theatres are permitted to stay open on Anzac Day for the first time. Organized
sport is also allowed in the afternoon |
| 26 - Roger Taylor of
Duran Duran is born |
| 27 - Korean president
Syngman Rhee resigns following a week of rioting and bloodshed in the
streets to protest against irregularities in last months elections |
| 28 - Martial law is
declared in Turkey following student riots in Ankara and Istanbul |
| 01 - An American U2 spy
plane is downed inside the Soviet Union. The Russians announce they
will put the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, on trial as a spy |
| 02 - Convicted US rapist Caryl Chessman is executed
in San Quentin prison after 12 years on death row |
| 04 - Leonid Brezhnev
succeeds Marshall Voroshilov as Head of State in USSR |
| 06 - England's Princess
Margaret weds commoner, photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in
Westminster Abbey |
| 07 - Wolverhampton
Wanderers defeat Blackburn Rovers 3-0 in British FA Cup Final |
| 07 - US admits that the
downed U2 plane was on a spying mission |
| 09 - The Food and Drug
Administration in Washington DC approves the contraceptive pill for
use |
| 10 - Bono (Paul Hewson),
U2
vocalist, is born |
| 11 - The liner France
is launched at St Nazaire |
| 16 - Nikita Khrushchev
cancels Paris summit meeting over U2 incident (the spyplane, not the
birth of Bono!) |
| 17 - US Democratic hopeful
Hubert Humphrey gives up after campaign defeats |
| 18 - Real Madrid win
European Cup for record fifth year after beating Eintracht Frankfurt
7 - 3 |
| 22 - Thousands die as a
26-foot wave hits Chile at 125mph |
| 23 - Israelis capture Nazi Death
Camp organizer, Adolf Eichmann |
| 24 - In Australia, the
Victorian State Parliament passes a bill to legalize off-course
betting for horse racing - the TAB |
| 27 - In Turkey, premier
Adnan Menderes is ousted in a military coup |
| 28 - Martin Luther King is
acquitted of perjury |
| 29 - Stirling Moss wins
Monaco Grand Prix |
| 30 - Soviet author, Boris
Leonidovich Pasternak (b.1890) dies |
| 30 - Melbourne (Australia)
cafe owner Sam Borg is found mysteriously battered to death in his
bedroom with the door nailed shut from inside |
| 01 - Television comes to
New Zealand with AKTV Channel 2 |
| 06 - Argentine government
demand the return of Adolf Eichmann from Israel |
| 08 - Mick Hucknall (Simply
Red) is born |
| 10 - In Australia, a TAA
plane crashes off Mackay, Queensland, killing 29 |
| 19 - Two British drivers,
Bristow and Stacey, die in the Belgian Grand Prix. Stirling Moss is
injured |
| 20 - John Taylor (Duran
Duran) is born |
| 22 - Eleven die in a blaze
in one of Liverpool's (UK) biggest department stores |
| 22 - Sino-Soviet split
brought into open |
| 23 - The Cavern in
Liverpool relaxes its Jazz-only policy and allows rock groups to play |
| 26 - British Somaliland
becomes independent |
| 26 - Madagascar becomes
independent as the Malagasy Republic |
| 27 - Australian rocker
Johnny O'Keefe is seriously injured in a car crash near Kempsey, NSW |
| 30 - National Service
military training, introduced in 1951, officially ends in Australia |
| 30 - The Belgian Congo
becomes independent under President Youlou |
| 01 - Italian Somaliland
joins British Somaliland to form the new Republic of Somalia |
| 02 - Neale Fraser beats Rod
Laver in the all-Australian men's singles final at Wimbledon. Maria
Bueno beats Sue Reynolds in the women's final |
| 03 - Jack Brabham wins the
French Grand Prix |
| 06 - Civil War begins in
Congo. Army mutinies against the government and UN Peacekeeping
forces are called in |
| 07 - The USSR shoots down a
US aircraft over the Barents Sea |
| 07 - £100,000 lottery win
leads to Australia's first kidnap as 8-year-old Sydney boy, Graeme
Thorne, is abducted |
| 08 - Soviet court finds US
pilot guilty of spying |
| 11 - Richie Sambora (Bon
Jovi) is born |
| 11 - Moise Tshombe, prime
minister of the Congolese province of Katanga, declares independence |
| 13 - US Democratic party
nominates John F Kennedy for Presidency |
| 15 - First UN troops arrive
in Congo |
| 21 - Francis Chichester in
record solo Atlantic trip |
| 21 - World's first woman PM
elected in Ceylon |
| 23 - CBS announces it will
build a skyscraper headquarters on the Avenue of the Americas in New
York, two blocks north of the RCA building, home of NBC. CBS has
purchased the site, almost one acre of land, for a reported $7
million. Noted architect Eero Sarrinen will design the site, to be
completed by the spring of 1964 |
| 25 - Republican Party
nominates Vice President Richard M Nixon for Presidency |
| 30 - Tony Curtis and wife
Janet Leigh purchase the Desert Skies Hotel, a Palm Springs resort
hotel. Plans are to convert it and the surrounding land into a
country club. |
| 07 - In Cuba, Castro nationalizes
all US-owned property in retaliation for "US economic
aggression" |
| 12 - In Liverpool, England,
drummer Pete Best joins The Silver Beetles (Beatles) |
| 14 - Jack Brabham wins the
Portuguese Grand Prix to become Formula One World Champion |
| 16 - Three way charter
makes Cyprus free |
| 16 - Kidnapped Graeme
Thorne's murdered body is found in a cave at Seaforth, Sydney
(Australia) |
| 17 -
The Beatles begin a
three month engagement at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany |
| 19 - Francis Gary Powers
sentenced to ten years in Soviet prison for espionage |
| 19 - A Soviet spacecraft
carrying two dogs makes 17 orbits of the Earth before returning
safely |
| 25 - XVIIth Olympic Games open in
Rome |
| 29 - Jordanian Premier
Hazza Majali is assassinated by a bomb |
| 03 - St George win the
Australian Rugby League Grand Final for the third consecutive year,
beating Eastern Suburbs 31-6 |
| 05 - Cassius Clay wins the
gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing class at the seventeenth
Olympic Games in Rome |
| 08 - Penguin Books is tried
for publishing D H Lawrence's banned novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
The publishing company were found not guilty of obscenity on November
2nd |
| 10 - Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama)
is born |
| 11 - Wilma Rudolph from
Tennessee sprints her way to triple gold at the Rome Olympics,
winning the 100 meter and 200 meter races, and forming part of a
triumphant 400 meter relay team. Rudolph suffered from polio as a
child and only learned to walk properly at 8 years of age |
| 13 - The director of public
prosecution in Britain is called upon to ban all records of the
American hit Tell Laura I Love Her, by Ray Peterson. The
song is being denounced in Britain as likely to inspire a teen-age
"glorious death cult." The song tells of a lovesick youngster who
drives in a stock car race to win the hand of his sweetheart. He
crashes and just before dying, groans out the words of the title. |
| 16 - Donald Campbell
survives after crashing Bluebird at 350 mph in Britain |
| 21 - In Australia,
Melbourne win their first VFL Grand Final in six years defeating
Collingwood 8.14 to 2.2 |
| 22 -
Joan Jett (born Joan
Larkin) is born |
| 25 - The first
atomic-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise is
launched in the USA |
| 26 - Kennedy and
Nixon draw
in debate on US Television |
| 27 - British suffragette,
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (b.1882) dies |
| 27 - Fidel Castro visits
Manhattan. Refused admission by New York's upscale hotels, Castro and
his entourage eventually end up at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem. |
| 27 - Pan American Airways
announces it will lease 15 floors in a skyscraper being constructed
over Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. It is the largest single
lease of office space in the city |
| 27 - Pontiac introduces its
1961 models. They are 4" shorter and 2½" narrower than the 1960
model |
| 01 - Nigeria becomes an
independent republic within the Commonwealth |
| 03 - Brigitte Bardot leaves
hospital in Nice after recovering from a suicide attempt |
| 05 - Former President Harry
Truman states publicly that Richard Nixon "never told the truth in
his life" and that anyone who votes for Nixon "ought to go to Hell" |
| 06 - A referendum in South
Africa favors the establishment of a republic |
| 11 - Thousands die as
Pakistan is battered by a tidal wave and a hurricane |
| 11 - Japanese socialist
leader Inejiro Asanuma is murdered in Tokyo by a right-wing student |
| 14 - Warragamba Dam
officially opened in Sydney, Australia, by Premier Heffron |
| 18 - The British newspaper
News Chronicle is merged with the Daily Mail and the
London evening newspaper The Star is merged with The
Evening News |
| 18 - Soviet newspaper
Pravda prints its first attack on the Chinese Communists |
| 19 - US imposes an embargo
on shipments to Cuba |
| 20 - Australian
immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet wins Nobel Prize for
Medicine |
| 21 - Queen Elizabeth II
launches HMS Dreadnought, the first British nuclear submarine |
| 21 - The Hawker
P1127 vertical take-off "jump" jet makes its first test flight |
| 22 - Cassius Clay has his
first bout as a professional boxer, in Louisville, Kentucky |
| 24 - Bertrand Russell
resigns as leader of CND in UK |
| 26 - South Vietnamese army
clashes with Viet Cong guerrillas |
| 01 - British PM Macmillan
announces a Bill to allow US nuclear submarines to use Holy Loch in
Scotland |
| 01 - In Australia, Hi Jinx
wins the Melbourne Cup |
| 07 - Missiles appear for
the first time at the annual parade in Red Square, Moscow, USSR |
| 09 - Kennedy scrapes home
in US Presidential election |
| 10 - Penguin's first run of
Lady Chatterley's Lover - 200,000 copies - sells out on the
first day of publication in Britain |
| 16 - US actor, Clark
William Gable (b. 1901) dies |
| 17 - British statesman,
William Wedgwood Benn (b.1877) dies |
| 18 - British singer
Kim Wilde is born |
| 19 - Stephen Bradley
appears in Sydney Central Court charged with Graeme Thorne's kidnap
and murder |
| 26 - The New Zealand Labour
party loses office after just one term. Keith Holyoake forms a
National Government with a majority of 12 seats |
| 16 - Beatle
George Harrison
is deported from Germany for working underage |
| 20 - Richard Baer, the last
commandant of Auschwitz, is arrested in West Germany |
| 27 - France explodes a
third atomic device in the Sahara |
| 31 - Last day for 'call up'
to National (military) Service in UK |
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Mar 05 - Sgt Elvis Presley is discharged from the US Army
Jul 21 - Chichester in record solo Atlantic trip
Sep 16 - Donald Campbell survives after crashing Bluebird at 350
mph
Oct 22 - Cassius Clay has first bout as a professional boxer
Nov 09 - Kennedy scrapes home in Presidential election
US Population 179,245,000
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Quote of the Year
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a
bridge even when there is no river"
Nikita Khrushchev
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