- January 9
- Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone. [1]
- January 10
- Battles between Muslims and hindus in Calcutta, India. [1]
- January 11
- Panamá severs diplomatic relations with US. [1]
- January 12
- Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, one month after independence. [1]
- January 13
- Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow, Poland. [1]
- January 22
- Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia). [1]
- January 25
- Echo 2 US communications satellite launched. [1]
- January 30
- Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam. [1]
- January 31
- US report Smoking and Health connects smoking to lung cancer. [1]
- February 1
- Suriname River dammed. [1]
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- February 2
- GI Joe debuts as a popular American boy's toy. [1]
- February 6
- France and Great Britain sign accord over building tunnel under English Channel. [1]
- February 10
- Australian destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne, killing 82. [1]
- February 11
- Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus. [1]
- Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France. [1]
- February 18
- Papandreou government takes power in Greece. [1]
- February 25
- Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns. [1]
- February 27
- The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over. [5]
- February 29
- US President Lyndon Johnson reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter. [1]
- March 5
- Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest. [1]
- March 6
- King Paul I of Greece (1947-64) dies at age 62. [1]
- Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece. [1]
- March 10
- US reconnaissance plane shot down over German Democratic Republic. [1]
- March 13
- Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack. [1]
- March 15
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- March 20
- European Space Research Organization established. [1]
- March 23
- UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva, Switzerland. [1]
- March 25
- Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64). [1]
- March 27
- Earthquake strikes Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent earthquake in US history. [1] [53] [383.A8]
- Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars. [1]
- United Nations' troops arrive on Cyprus. [1]
- March 29
- First true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England). [1]
- March 31
- President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military. [1]
- April 2
- Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria. [1]
- Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted. [1]
- USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned. [1]
- April 3
- US and Panamá agree to resume diplomatic relations. [1]
- April 5
- First driverless trains run on the London Underground. [1]
- April 6
- Egypt and Belgium restore diplomatic relations. [1]
- April 7
- IBM introduces the IBM System/360 mainframe computer. [13]
- April 8
- Unmanned Gemini 1 launched. [1]
- April 10
- Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf). [1]
- April 15
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (Bridge-Tunnel measures 17.6 miles (28.4 km) and is considered the world's largest bridge-tunnel complex). [1]
- Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia. [1]
- April 16
- Nine men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery". [1]
- April 17
- The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair (US$2368 base price). [1] [5]
- April 18
- Artisans' strike in Belgium ends. [1]
- April 19
- Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier. [1]
- April 22
- The New York World's Fair opens in Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York, held for the 300th anniversary of New York City. US President Lyndon Johnson opens the fair, which covers over 646 acres of land. Theme of the fair is "Peace Through Understanding". Walt Disney's WED company constructed pavilions for: Ford (Magic Skyway), General Electric (Progressland), the state of Illinois (Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln), and Pepsi-Cola / UNICEF (It's a Small World). (A total of 51 million people visit over two six-month schedules.) [1] [6] [1198.98]
- April 26
- Tanganyika and Zanzibar form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. [285.413,1181]
- April 28
- May 1
- At Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, the BASIC programming language runs for the first time. The language was developed by professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is based on FORTRAN and Algol, and was developed for a General Electric 225 mainframe computer. [1] [4]
- May 4
- 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva, Switzerland. [1]
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism). [1]
- May 5
- Separatists riot in Québec, Canada. [1]
- May 9
- Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev visits Egypt. [1]
- May 12
- Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO. [1]
- May 16
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- May 19
- US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy. [1]
- May 21
- First nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay). [1]
- Fire in Wégimond, Belgium resort, kills 19. [1]
- US begin intelligence flights above Laos. [1]
- May 24
- Panic in Lima, Peru soccer stadium; 300 killed. [1]
- May 28
- Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli, India. [1]
- Palestine National Congress forms the Palestine Liberation Organization in Jerusalem. [1]
- June 12
- South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment. [1]
- June 16
- In the Sea of Japan, 50km north of Niigata, Japan, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. 3,534 houses destroyed, 11,000 houses damaged. A tsunami generated by the earthquake ravages the west coast of Honshu. [1] [53]
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