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1.4 July-September

July 1 - Independence of Rwanda and Burundi
July 1 – Supporters of Algerian independence win in referendum
July 1 - Another heavy smog over London
July 5 - Algeria becomes independent from France.
July 6 - Irish broadcaster, Gay Byrne, presents his first edition of The Late Late Show. Byrne would go on to present the show for 37 years making it the longest running chat show in the world
July 10 - Telstar, the world's first active communications satellite, is launched into orbit
July 17 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site
July 22 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed
July 23 - Telstar relays the first live trans- Atlantic television signal
July 28 - Locust swarm threatens Delhi
July 31 - Algeria proclaims independence; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President
August 5 - Film actress and sex icon, Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles, California home after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills
August 6 - Jamaica becomes independent
August 17 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin
August 23 - John Lennon secretly marries Cynthia Powell
August 27 - NASA launches the Mariner 2 space probe
August 31 - Trinidad and Tobago become independent
September 2 - Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba
September 12 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade
September 26 - Civil war erupts in Yemen

1.5 October

October 1 - The first black student James Meredith registers in University of Mississippi escorted by Federal marshals
October 5 - French National Assembly censures the proposed referendum to sanction presidential elections by popular mandate; prime minister Georges Pompidou resigns, but President de Gaulle asks him to stay in office
October 8 - German Der Spiegel magazine publishes an article about Bundeswehr's bad preparedness - Spiegel scandal erupts
October 9 - Uganda becomes independent within the Commonwealth
October 10 - Der Spiegel publishes an article on a NATO exercise criticizing the weakness of the West German army (the offices of the paper are occupied by the police on the 16th)
October 11 - Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years
October 12 - Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph; 46 dead, 11 billion board feet of timber blown down, $230 million U.S. in damages
October 13 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway.
October 14 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. A stand-off then ensues the next day between the United States and the Soviet Union, putting the entire world under threat of a nuclear war
October 26 - Spiegel scandal - German police occupies Der Spiegel offices in Hamburg
October 28 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba
October 28 - a referendum in France favours the election of the president by universal suffrage
October 31 - the UN General Assembly requests the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), but the constitution comes into effect on November 1

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