Jan 1 Astro Boy, the first popular animated Japanese television series based on the manga series byOsamu Tezuka, premieres on Fuji TV in Japan

Jan 9Mao Zedong writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

Jan 11 SF Warriors centerWilt Chamberlain scores 67 points in 134-129 defeat to LA Lakers at Cow Palace

Jan 14 "The Bell Jar" bySylvia Plath is published by Heinemann in the UK, the author commits suicide a month later

Jan 14George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"

Jan 16Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb

Jan 16Tennessee Williams' play "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" premieres in America on Broadway, NY

Jan 22 Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany signed byCharles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer

Jan 29Jim Thorpe,Red Grange, andGeorge Halas elected to football Hall of Fame

Jan 30Ivan Sutherland submits a thesis containing his Sketchpad program, a forerunner to modern-day graphic user interfaces and computer-aided design programs

Jan 31Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers (later known as The Beatles) record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby"

Feb 12 Argentina requests the extradition of ex-presidentJuan Perón

Feb 14 "8½" film directed byFederico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale, is released (Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film 1964)

Feb 15 First US female world figure skating champion (Tenley Albright)

Feb 16 North Carolina forwardBilly Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson

Feb 16 PhilosopherHannah Arendt's controversial account of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is first published in "The New Yorker"

Feb 19 "The Feminine Mystique" byBetty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published

Feb 19Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry

Feb 19 USSR informsJFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba

Feb 20 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielderWillie Mays becomes the highest-paid player in MLB, signing a record $100,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants

Feb 23 Italian tenorLuciano Pavarotti makes his debut at the Vienna State Opera inGiuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata"

Feb 27Mickey Mantle of the NY Yankees signs a baseball contract worth $100,000

Mar 7John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman record their self-titled album "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Mar 10 MLB infielderPete Rose debuts with Cincinnati at spring training in Tampa, Florida; hits in his first 2 at bats

Mar 11 US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 byEugene Stoner

Mar 12 the Beatles perform as a trio, at Granada Cinema, in Bedford, England, asJohn Lennon is ill with a cold

Mar 13Paul Hindemith andThornton Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in NYC

Mar 14 MusicianFrank Zappa (22) tapes an appearance for syndicated "TheSteve Allen Show" - he and the host 'play' bicycles as musical instruments along with the show's orchestra; program airs later in the month

Mar 17Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)

Mar 21 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed

Mar 27 Historical film "The Leopard" directed by Luchino Visconti, starringBurt Lancaster,Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale premieres in Rome, based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Apr 1 NY Mets purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielderDuke Snider from the LA Dodgers for $40,000; Snider had starred for the Brooklyn Dodgers 1947-57

Apr 8 35th Academy Awards: "Lawrence of Arabia",Anne Bancroft &Gregory Peck win

Apr 9Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen

Apr 11 Milwaukee Braves future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcherWarren Spahn beats NY Mets, 6-1 for his 328th win; most by a left-hander in MLB history

Apr 11 PopeJohn XXIII publishes encyclical "Pacem in terris", that peace between all peoples must be based on truth, justice, love and freedom

Apr 14 Quiet BeatleGeorge Harrison is impressed by unsigned British blues band "Rolling Stones"

Apr 19Johnny Cash releases single "Ring of Fire" written by his future wifeJune Carter and Merle Kilgore

Apr 21 Beatles meetthe Rolling Stones for the first time

Apr 22Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada

Apr 24 Future Basketball Hall of Fame point guardBob Cousy plays his last NBA game for Boston as Celtics beat LA Lakers, 112-109 in Game 6 for their 5th straight NBA C'ship

Apr 27 Cuban premierFidel Castro arrives in Moscow

May 1Gloria Steinem's exposé, "A Bunny's Tale", on the working conditions for waitresses (bunnies) at New York City’s famedPlayboy Club, published in "Show" magazine

May 2 Children's crusade begins in Birmingham, Alabama. More than 600 African American school children arrested for marching against segregation, organised byJames Bevel and the SCLC

May 8 First James Bond film, "Dr. No," starringSean Connery, premieres in the US

May 11 LA Dodgers pitcherSandy Koufax throws his second career no-hitter; beatsJuan Marichal and the SF Giants, 8-0

May 12Bob Dylan walks out of "TheEd Sullivan Show" over a dispute about his song choice

May 15 5th Grammy Awards: "I Left My Heart In San Francisco";Robert Goulet win

May 20Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia

May 24 "Hud", directed by Martin Ritt and starringPaul Newman, premieres in Hollywood, California

May 24Barbra Streisand performs "Happy Days Are Here Again" at White House Press Correspondents Dinner, and meets US PresidentJohn F. Kennedy

May 26 15th Emmy Awards: "The Dick Van Dyke Show", E G Marshall &Shirley Booth win

May 27Jomo Kenyatta is elected as the first Prime Minister of Kenya

Jun 5 A state of siege is declared in Iran, andAyatollah Khomeini is arrested

Jun 11 Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War's most iconic images

Jun 12 "Cleopatra" directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starringElizabeth Taylor andRichard Burton premieres in NYC, then most expensive film ever made

Jun 12 American civil rights activistMedgar Evers is assassinated by white supremacistByron De La Beckwith in Jackson, Mississippi