- February 1
- Nyasaland (later Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda. [1]
- February 5
- Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars. [1]
- February 8
- Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq (1958-63), assassinated in Baghdad at age 48. [1]
- First transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist). [1]
- February 9
- First flight of Boeing 727 jet. [1]
- February 12
- Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron. [1]
- February 14
- US launches communications satellite Syncom 1. [1]
- February 16
- C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down. [1]
- February 19
- Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize. [1]
- The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique launches the feminist movement in the United States. [5]
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- USSR informs US President John Kennedy it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba. [1]
- March 1
- 200,000 French mine workers strike. [1]
- March 3
- Senegal adopts constitution. [1]
- March 5
- The Hula-Hoop toy is patented by Wham-O company co-founder Arthur "Spud" Melin. [129]
- March 8
- Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day: Military coup in Syria. [1]
- March 11
- Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain. [1]
- March 13
- Russians make two reconnaissance flights over Alaska. [1]
- Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations. [1]
- March 17
- Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975). [1]
- Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali kills 1,500 Balinese. [1]
- March 18
- France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria. [1]
- March 20
- First "Pop Art" exhibition (New York City, New York). [1]
- Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke. [1]
- March 21
- Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California closed. [1]
- March 23
- The Beatles' first album, "Please, Please Me," is released in Britain. [1] [457]
- March 30
- France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria. [1]
- April 2
- Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km). [1]
- USSR launches Luna 4; misses Moon by 8,500 km. [1]
- April 4
- The Bank Leu-Adolph Hess sale sets a public auction coin price record, as a Roman gold 10-aureus coin sells for US$38,660. [397.52]
- April 5
- Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa. [1]
- April 7
- Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic. [1]
- April 9
- Sir Winston Churchill is proclaimed an honorary U.S. citizen, in White House ceremony. [1]
- A party of 51 evacuated residents of Tristan da Cunha return to the island, having left in 1961 due to volcano eruption. [1166.232]
- April 10
- American atomic-powered submarine USS Thresher sinks 220 miles east of Boston, Massachusetts from an unknown accident, with loss of all 129 men aboard. [1] [1155.1034]
- April 11
- Pope John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty. [1]
- April 18
- Dr James Campbell performs the first human nerve transplant. [1]
- April 20
- All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala, Uganda. [1]
- April 21
- Dr Michael Ellis De Bakey performs first successful heart implant. [1]
- April 27
- "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname. [1]
- Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow. [1]
- May 1
- First American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest. [1]
- Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands. [1] [700.246]
- May 6
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August). [1]
- May 7
- SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km)). [1]
- May 8
- US President John Kennedy offers Israel assistance against aggression. [1]
- May 14
- Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations. [1]
- May 15
- The final Mercury mission is launched, with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper - who becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space. [1] [5]
- May 20
- Sukarno appointed President of Indonesia. [1]
- May 25
- Organization for African Unity is formed by Chad, Mauritania, and Zambia. [1]
- May 27
- Jomo Kenyatta elected first prime minister of Kenya. [1]
- Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered. [1]
- May 28
- Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22,000 die and one million houses destroyed. [1]
- Jomo Kenyatta becomes first Prime Minister of Kenya. [1]
- June 1
- King Victor Emmanual III of Italy becomes Emperor of Ethiopia. [1]
- Jomo Kenyatta is sworn in as prime minister of Kenya. [1673.27]
- June 3
- Pope John XXIII dies at age 81. [1]
- June 11
- US President John Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act". [1]
- Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon. [1]
- June 12
- African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers (age 37) is gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. [1] [129]
- June 16
- Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister. [1]
- June 17
- Tonga issues the world's first self-adhesive postage stamp. [1135]
- June 20
- US and USSR agree to set up "Hot Line". [1]
- June 21
- Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII. [1]
- June 23
- The Enchanted Tiki Room attraction opens in Adventureland at Disneyland. This is the first attraction with sophisticated Audio-Animatronic figures, 225 of them. [6]
- June 24
- First demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London, England. [1] [457]
- Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by Britain. [1]
- June 26
- USA President John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) on a visit to West Berlin. [1] [5]
- June 27
- US President John Kennedy spends first full day in Ireland. [1]
- June 30
- Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of Roman Catholic Church. [1]
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