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1.2 February-April

February 3 - US announces its trade embargo with Cuba
February 4 - The Sunday Times becomes the first paper to print a colour supplement
February 7 - The United States Government bans all US-related Cuban imports and exports
February 14 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House
February 2 - For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align
February 5 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation
February 9 - Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation opened
February 10 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel
February 12 - Six members of the Committee of 100 of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are found guilty of a breach of the Official Secrets Act
February 20 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the Earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes becoming the first American to orbit the Earth
March 1 - An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport after its rudder separates from the tail, with loss of all life on board
March 2 - Military coup in Burma
March 8 - In Geneva, France and Algerian FLN begin negotiations
March 18 - France and Algeria sign an agreement ending the Algerian War
March 19 - Armistice in Algeria - however, OAS continues its attacks against Algerians
March 23 - Scandinavian States of Nordic Council sign Helsinki Convention on Nordic Co-operation
April 4 - James Hanratty is hanged in Bedford Gaol for A6 murder - many believe he was innocent
April 26 - The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon

1.3 May-June

May 2 - Bomb explodes in Algeria - 110 dead
May 5 - 12 East Germans escape via a tunnel under the Berlin Wall
May 14 - Juan Carlos marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens
May 14 - Milovan Djilas, former vice-president of Yugoslavia, is given further sentence for publishing Conversations with Stalin
May 23 - Drilling for new Montreal, Quebec subway commences
May 23 - Founder of the OAS, Raoul Salan , is sentenced to life imprisonment in France
May 24 - Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule
May 25 - Consecration of the new Coventry cathedral
May 31 - Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel
June 3 - An air crash at Orly Airport in Paris - 130 dead, two stewardesses survive
June 15 - Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement
June 17 – OAS signs a truce with FLN in Algeria
June 25 - The Supreme Court rules in Engel v. Vitale that prayers in public schools are unconstitutional

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