01 - The
Beatles play their first audition for a major record company -
Decca. They are rejected but the label decide to sign Brian
Poole & The Tremeloes
07 - 17 Yugoslav seamen are
drowned when their ship the Sabac sinks after a collision
with the British steamer Dorington Court in the English
Channel
08 - 93 people die in
Holland when an express crashes into the side of a commuter train in
the worst rail accident in Netherlands history
10 - Between 3,000 and
4,000 people are killed by an avalanche of snow and rock at Nevada
de Huascaran, Peru
12 - American communists
are barred from traveling abroad as the US State Department denies
passports to all Communist Party members
13 - Bushfires raze
Victorian hill country in Australia
14 - EEC incorporates its
Common Agricultural Policy
04 - In London, The
Times publishes its 'Colour Supplement" for the first time. It
receives mixed reactions
07 - A gas explosion at
Luisenthal mine in the German Federal Republic kills 298 miners
07 - US ban on trade with
Cuba goes into effect
07 - Axl Rose (real name
William Bailey) of Guns 'n' Roses is born
08 - US government
announces the deployment of Military Assistance Command (MAC) in
South Vietnam
10 - US U-2 pilot Powers
comes home in spy swap with Rudolf Abel
17 - 115 mph storm smashes
dykes along the Elbe River, Germany. 343 people are killed, 300 of
them in Hamburg
20 - John Glenn is the
first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. His voyage in
Freedom 7 is televised by all three networks and watched by 135
million viewers
26 - American Supreme Court
rules that segregation in interstate and intrastate transportation
facilities is illegal
01 - An American Airlines
Astro-jet crashes after take-off from Idlewild Airport, New York,
killing all 95 people onboard
01 - A hotel
collapses in Asyut, Egypt, killing at least 31 people
01 - Sydney's Cahill
Expressway opens in Australia
15 - Terence Trent D'Arby
is born
16 - US Flying Tiger Super
Constellation disappears in the Pacific en route from Guam to
Manila. All 107 people aboard (including 93 US servicemen) are
killed
17 - Scottish
singer/actress, Claire Grogan, is born
18 - Ceasefire agreed in
the war in Algeria
22 - 16 miners are killed
in an explosion at the Hapton Valley colliery near Burnley, England
30 - Australian Aborigines
given the right to vote in federal elections
30 - Rapper MC Hammer is
born
04 - Jamed Hanratty is
hanged at Bedford Prison in Britain for the murder of a man on
the A6 near London in August 1961. Another individual, Peter Alphon.
later confesses to the murder
08 - Cuba convicts 1,179 Bay Of Pigs prisoners of treason and sentences them to 30 years in
prison. Cuban officials offer to free them all to the US for a $62
million ransom
10 - Original
Beatles bass
player Stuart Sutcliffe dies in Hamburg, Germany, aged 21 of a brain
hemorrhage. He dies in the arms of his girlfriend Astrid Kirchher
13 - Southern Aurora
train streaks between Australian capitals. Sydney to Melbourne rail
link completed
23 - Stirling Moss injured
in 110mph crash at the Goodwood circuit (Britain) in his Lotus Climax
26 - US Ranger
rocket crashes on dark side of the Moon
29 - 20 people die in a
fireworks factory explosion in São Paulo, Brazil
03 - In Tokyo, a triple
crash involving a goods train and two passenger trains kills at
least 150 and injures over 300 people
09 - The
Beatles sign their
recording contract with EMI Records
09 - Australia agrees to
send military advisers to Vietnam
22 - A French Boeing 707
crashes on Basse-Terre Island, Guadeloupe, killing all 113 persons
aboard
25 - Sophia Loren on bigamy
charge
01 - Britain institutes
controls on immigration from the Commonwealth
01 - Rwanda and Burundi
achieve full independence
01 - 99% of voters in
Algeria vote to break all ties with France
04 - Algeria becomes a
sovereign independent state
07 - An Alitalia DC8
crashes while landing at Junnar, India. 85 passengers and 9 crew are
killed
10 - An experimental
telecommunications satellite developed and owned by AT&T and Bell
telecommunications is successfully placed in orbit around the Earth.
The satellite is called Telstar
11 - Telstar
satellite moves TV pictures across the Atlantic from Maine to Great
Britain and France
05 - Marilyn Monroe found
dead in her bed following a suspected drug overdose
06 - Jamaica becomes
independent within the Commonwealth of Nations
15 - Six Australian RAAF
pilots are killed in a stunt team crash in Victoria
16 -
Beatles' manager Brian
Epstein informs drummer Pete Best that he is being replaced by
Richard Starkey (better known as Ringo
Starr)
20 - Berlin Wall guards
watch as boy lies dying. The dead boy, Peter Fechter, was
machine-gunned in the back as he tried to climb the wall and then
bled to death while the East German guards looked on
28 - At least 163 people
perish when a rain-swollen river bursts its banks at Sunchon, Korea
31 - Trinidad and Tobago
become independent within the Commonwealth
01 - Iranian earthquake
leaves 20,000 dead
02 - USSR agrees to supply
Cuba with weapons
10 - Alcohol bans lifted
for NSW (Australia) aborigines
17 - The
Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs collapses in Brussels killing 42
people
20 - James Meredith, a
black student, is denied admission to the University of Mississippi
by Mississippi Governor Ross R Barnett
24 - Soviet president
Leonid Brezhnev visits Yugoslavia. Relations between the two nations
improve
25 - Torrential rain around
Barcelona, Spain, causes flooding which results in at least 440
deaths
28 - James Meredith is
escorted onto University of Mississippi campus by US Marshals. Two
men are killed in the ensuing riots which have to be quelled by 3,000
federal soldiers
28 - In Australia, fire
destroys one fifth of Brisbane's tram fleet - 67 vehicles
03 - A boiler in the
basement of a New York telephone exchange explodes and crashes
through a cafeteria. 23 people are killed
05 -
The Beatles first
single, Love Me Do, is released
09 - Uganda becomes
independent
13 - Don Everly (of The Everly
Brothers) collapses during rehearsals at London's Prince of
Wales theatre. He is rushed to hospital and flown home to the US two
days later. The collapse is blamed on an amphetamine overdose
20 - Chinese invade India
following border dispute
23 - Council of the
Organization of American States votes unanimously to authorize the
use of armed force to prevent shipment of offensive weapons to Cuba
24 - US imposes a naval
blockade on Cuba to prevent military supplies reaching the country
25 - More than 700 people
are killed in a tropical storm in Southern Thailand
27 - Nikita Khrushchev
offers to remove Cuban missiles under UN supervision, providing the
US does the same thing in Turkey
27 - Brazilian Boeing 707
crashes while preparing to land at Lima, Peru. 105 people die
28 - Khrushchev agrees to
halt construction of bases in Cuba and to withdraw Soviet
missiles.
In exchange, Kennedy lifts the Cuban trade and weapons embargo, and
pledges that the US will not invade Cuba. The world steps back from
the nuclear brink
30 - UN General Assembly
rejects a Soviet proposal to admit communist China
02 -President
Kennedy confirms that Cuban missile bases are being dismantled and that
"progress is now being made towards restoration of peace in the
Caribbean"
05 - Saudi Arabia quits
United Arab Republic
07 - Nelson Mandela jailed
for five years
10 - Eleanor Roosevelt dies
14 - Eritrea votes to
become a province of Ethiopia
21 - China wins border
dispute with India at Bomdila and halts their advance into India,
agreeing to a ceasefire
29 - British Minister for
Aviation and the French Ambassador to Britain sign the Concorde
agreement in London to cooperate on building the world's first
supersonic airline
09 - Tanzania becomes
independent within the Commonwealth
14 - US space probe
Mariner 2 sends back the first close-up pictures of Venus
20 - President Kennedy agrees to supply Britain with Polaris nuclear missiles
23 - Under agreement with a
private citizens' group in the US, Cuba begins releasing Bay Of Pigs
prisoners in exchange for more than $50 million in food and medical
supplies
A smallpox
outbreak in Britain kills many people