American rock band, The Beach Boys released their first album, 'Surfin' Safari.'
Canada launches its 1st satellite.
Establishment of Yemen Arab Republic.
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is officially created.
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opened in New York City.
Singer Bob Dylan played at New York's famous Carnegie Hall.
Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tebogo were admitted to the United Nations.
American department store Kohl's opened their first store in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
The world population on Earth passed 3 billion.
NASA Launches Mariner 2.
France's President Charles de Gaulle Survives an Assassination Attempt.
The Soviet Space Agency Launches Vostok 3.
Jamaican Independence.
Nelson Mandela returned to South Africa and was arrested for illegally leaving the country.
The Soviet Union launched its second reconnaissance satellite, Kosmos 4.
Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
First live transatlantic television signal.
The Mariner 1 Space Probe was forced to self-destruct minutes after launching.
The Rolling Stones had their first performance at the Marquee Club in London.
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for a demonstration he was involved in during December 1961.
NASA launched Telstar 1, the world's first active communications satellite.
Andy Warhol presented his artwork for the first time at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, US.
Algeria claimed its independence from France after being ruled for 132 years.
Algeria gains its independence from France.
The first Walmart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
President John F. Kennedy gained an honorary degree from Yale University.
Chile and Italy played one of the most violent soccer games in history.
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is premiered.
Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the US Aurora 7.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
Marilyn Monroe performed 'Happy Birthday, Mr. President' for President J.F. Kennedy's 45th birthday.
NASA's Atlas-Centaur rocket exploded mid-air during its first test flight.
Ariel 1, the first British-American satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.
Neil Armstrong flew the X-15 craft to an altitude of 34 miles (54.6 km).
Glen Bell opened the very first Taco Bell restaurant, in Downey, California.
Bob Dylan releases his first album.
The Évian Accords are signed, ending the Algerian War.
John Glenn became the first American to orbit planet Earth.
Francis Gary Powers, a U.S. spy captured by the Soviet Union, is released.
Honeybees stung Johannes Relleke a world record 2,443 times in Zimbabwe.
The Ranger 3 robotic spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The filming of the first James Bond movie, 'Dr. No,' began.
A massive landslide kills 4,000 in Peru.
New York City modernized its subway by starting its first unmanned trains.
The Beatles signed on with their first formal manager, Brian Epstein.
Adolf Eichmann was found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
Tanzania gained independence from Britain.
A painting that had been hung upside down in a museum was finally flipped upright after going unnoticed for over a month.
Enos, the chimpanzee, was launched into space on the Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission.
The Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba or Big Ivan over the Mityushikha Bay test range on the Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Circle.
