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British choreographer Frederick Ashton creates Marguerite and Armand for Margot Fonteyn and her new partner, Rudolf Nureyev
Pope John XXIII dies, only a few month's after the start of the great Vatican council that he has summoned
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, flying solo in Vostok 6
Young British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers work together as Team 4
The OAU (Organization of African Unity) is founded in Addis Ababa to give Africa a united voice in world affairs
Italian cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected pope and takes the name Paul VI
British diplomat Kim Philby defects to the USSR and is discovered to have been a Soviet spy
English author Margaret Drabble publishes her first novel, A Summer Birdcage
The Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed by the USA, USSR and UK, is the first of many international attempts to limit the threat of nuclear war
Robert Mugabe and Ndabaningi Sithole split from ZAPU to found ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union
Sexual intercourse begins in this year, according to Philip Larkin's 1974 poem Annus Mirabilis
Zanzibar becomes an independent nation and a member of the Commonwealth
Kenya becomes independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved, as the three colonies go their separate ways
British film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry
Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley begin a famous partnership in Ashton's The Dream
Ian Smith, now prime minister of Rhodesia, arrests leading black politicians Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge as the United Republic of Tanzania
Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Sergio Leone directs A Fistful of Dollars, the first of his three 'spaghetti westerns' starring Clint Eastwood
In a match at the Oval, England cricketer Freddie Trueman becomes the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets
English author A.S. Byatt publishes her first novel, Shadow of a Sun
Hastings Banda is prime minister of the newly independent nation of Malawi, formerly Nyasaland
The Beatles reach number one in both the UK and the US with their single 'Can't Buy Me Love'
Nikita Khrushchev is forced from office as Soviet leader by a conservative faction that includes Leonid Brezhnev
