- August 10
- England applies for membership in the European Common Market. [1]
- August 13
- Construction on Berlin Wall begins in German Democratic Republic. [1]
- August 18
- Construction on Berlin Wall completed. [1]
- August 23
- US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back. [1]
- August 24
- Former German leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's Minister of Justice. [1]
- September 1
- USSR tests nuclear bombs in central Asia. [1]
- September 4
- US authorizes Agency for International Development. [1]
- September 6
- In Bells, Texas, USA a meteorite strikes the roof of a house. [521]
- September 10
- Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit home run number 400. [1]
- September 18
- Dag Hammarskjold, secretary general of the United Nations, is killed when his DC-6 plane crashes into the jungle in Zambia. (The plane was accidentally shot down by a local group that had planned to kidnap Hammarskjöld.) [1] [7] [105]
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- September 27
- Sierre Leone becomes the 100th member of the United Nations. [1]
- September 28
- Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic. [1]
- September 29
- In Cuba, Fidel Castro announces casino gambling would henceforth be illegal in Havana. [187.385]
- September 30
- Southern Cameroons joins Cameroun Federal Republic. [707.27]
- October 1
- A believed-extinct volcano erupts in Tristan da Cunha. [1]
- East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon. [1]
- October 9
- Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. [1]
- Volcano of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic erupts for the first time since the island has been known, forcing complete evacuation. [1] [1166.230]
- October 27
- Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become the 102nd and 103rd members of United Nations. [1]
- October 30
- Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square. [1]
- The Soviet Union detonates its hydrogen bomb, Tsar Bomba, over Novaya Zemlya. At 58 megatons, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated (as of about 2006). [1] [5]
- November 29
- Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit. [1]
- November 30
- USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership. [1]
- December 2
- Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism. [1]
- December 4
- Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the United Nations. [1]
- December 9
- In Israel, German SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes. [1]
- Tanganyika gains independence. [285.413]
- December 10
- USSR and Albania break diplomatic relations. [1]
- December 11
- US President John Kennedy provides American military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam. [1]
- Melvin Calvin is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the process of photosynthesis. [5]
- December 12
- Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36. [1]
- December 13
- Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann. [1]
- December 15
- L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels. [1]
- December 17
- India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao, and Diu. [1] [1022.1013]
- Disgruntled employee sets fire to a Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro circus tent in Niteroi, Brazil; 323 die. [1]
- December 18
- India annexes former Portuguese India. [278.450]
- December 19
- British government begins process of switching to decimal coin system. [1] [463.42] [558.64] [607.30]
- Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization. [1]
- December 23
- Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for US$62 million worth of food and medical supplies. [1]
- Train accident in Italy, 70 die. [1]
- December 27
- Belgium and Congo resume diplomatic relations. [1]
- December 31
- Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon. [1]
- US post-war Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$12 billion. [1]
- Year
- Total amount spent on legal soccer pools: Scandinavia US$150 million, Australia US$240 million, Great Britain US$333 million. [80.95]
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