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.
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.
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.
Glen Bell opened the very first Taco Bell restaurant, in Downey, California.
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.
A massive landslide kills 4,000 in Peru.
New York City modernized its subway by starting its first unmanned trains.
Adolf Eichmann was found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
Tanzania gained independence from Britain.
NASA's Saturn I rocket was tested for the first time in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Formation of Federal Republic of Cameroon.
Dissolution of the United Arab Republic.
Boeing CH-47 Chinook takes flight for the first time.
Pakistan established its national space agency, the SUPARCO.
Berlin's city became entirely divided in two, with all borders sealed between the east and west.
Kuwait declared its independence from the UK.
South Africa becomes an independent republic.
The Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, is assassinated.
Amnesty International is founded.
US President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and promised to put a man on the moon within a decade.
Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to outer space.
Fidel Castro banned elections and declared Cuba to be a socialist nation.
Sierra Leone becomes an independent republic.
NASA launched the Explorer 11 satellite atop a Juno II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins.
The 23rd Amendment was ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in US elections.
President John F. Kennedy founded the Peace Corps.
NASA's Explorer 9 satellite launched from the Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia.
Sabena Flight 458 crashed, killing the entire US Figure Skating team.
A chimpanzee named Ham became the first primate to go to space aboard the US MR-2 spacecraft.
Elvis Presley reached number one in the UK charts with 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?'
A B-52 bomber carrying two nuclear bombs broke up mid-air over North Carolina.
Patrice Lumumba is murdered with support from western governments.
The United States broke diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
The red robin was officially named Britain's National Bird.
The first Domino's Pizza opened in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Mirabal sisters assassinated by Trujillo regime.
