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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba or Big Ivan over the Mityushikha Bay test range on the Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Circle.
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.
The Antarctic Treaty comes into force.
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.
