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The former British colony of Uganda becomes an independent republic, with Milton Obote as prime minister
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican begins, 94 years after the start of the First Vatican Council under Pius IX
US intelligence reveals nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba, causing an international crisis
President Kennedy sends the US navy to prevent delivery of Soviet missiles to Cuba
British author P.D. James's first novel, Cover Her Face, introduces her poet detective Adam Dalgleish
US dramatist Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway
A deal between President Kennedy and Soviet premier Khrushchev defuses the Cuban missile crisis
Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport
In Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov tells his story through an editor's annotations to a poem
British Grand Prix driver Graham Hill wins the first of two world championship titles
China prevails in a five-week war with India over disputed boundaries
Fidel Castro releases, for $53 million in food and medicine, the Cuban exiles taken prisoner in the Bay of Pigs fiasco
Dmitry Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony sets poems from Yevtushenko's Babi Yar I
In The Gutenberg Galaxy Canadian author Marshall McLuhan develops the concept of the 'global village'
Mrs Ionides lealves the Octagon, stables and the site of Orleans House to the Borough of Twickenham to be used as a public gallery
Anthony Burgess publishes A Clockwork Orange, a novel depicting a disturbing and violent near-future
British surgeon John Charnley pioneers the technique of joint replacement, giving a patient a new hip in a small hospital in Wrightington
French president Charles de Gaulle vetoes Britain's application to join the European Economic Community
John Profumo, secretary of state for war, tells the House of Commons there is no truth in rumours about a sexual relationship between himself and Christine Keeler
John Profumo resigns from- his cabinet position after admitting that he had lied to the House of Commons about his relationship with Christine Keeler
Harold Macmillan, in hospital for a prostate operation, resigns as UK prime minister
On Macmillan's advice to the Queen, Lord Home (rather than Rab Butler) succeeds him as prime minister
US poet Sylvia Plath publishes under a pseudonym her only novel, The Bell Jar
A military coup in Syria brings the Ba'th party to power
US poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
