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| | | The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican begins, 94 years after the start of the First Vatican Council under Pius IX | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US intelligence reveals nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba, causing an international crisis | |
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| 1962 |
| | | President Kennedy sends the US navy to prevent delivery of Soviet missiles to Cuba | |
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| 1962 |
| | | British author P.D. James's first novel, Cover Her Face, introduces her poet detective Adam Dalgleish | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US dramatist Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A deal between President Kennedy and Soviet premier Khrushchev defuses the Cuban missile crisis | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport | |
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| 1962 |
| | | In Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov tells his story through an editor's annotations to a poem | |
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| 1962 |
| | | British Grand Prix driver Graham Hill wins the first of two world championship titles | |
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| 1962 |
| | | China prevails in a five-week war with India over disputed boundaries | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Fidel Castro releases, for $53 million in food and medicine, the Cuban exiles taken prisoner in the Bay of Pigs fiasco | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Dmitry Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony sets poems from Yevtushenko's Babi Yar I | |
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| 1962 |
| | | In The Gutenberg Galaxy Canadian author Marshall McLuhan develops the concept of the 'global village' | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Anthony Burgess publishes A Clockwork Orange, a novel depicting a disturbing and violent near-future | |
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| 1962 |
| | | British surgeon John Charnley pioneers the technique of joint replacement, giving a patient a new hip in a small hospital in Wrightington | |
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| 1963 |
| | | US poet Sylvia Plath publishes under a pseudonym her only novel, The Bell Jar | |
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| 1963 |
| | | French president Charles de Gaulle vetoes Britain's application to join the European Economic Community | |
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| 1963 |
| | | A military coup in Syria brings the Ba'th party to power | |
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| 1963 |
| | | US poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Moise Tshombe's rebel regime in Katanga crumbles, and he flees to Spain | |
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| 1963 |
| | | English author John Le Carré publishes a Cold-War thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | |
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| 1963 |
| | | British choreographer Frederick Ashton creates Marguerite and Armand for Margot Fonteyn and her new partner, Rudolf Nureyev | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Gideon v. Wainwright establishes that every defendant in a US court has the right to be represented by a lawyer | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Mary McCarthy's novel The Group follows the subsequent adventures of eight fellow graduates from Vassar | |
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| 1963 |
| | | A scandal involving the minister of war, John Profumo, damages the Macmillan government in Britain | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Liberal leader Lester Pearson begins five years at the head of minority governments in Canada | |
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| 1963 |
| | | US environmentist Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, an impassioned warning of ecological disaster | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Pope John XXIII dies, only a few month's after the start of the great Vatican council that he has summoned | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, flying solo in Vostok 6 | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Young British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers work together as Team 4 | |
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| 1963 |
| | | The OAU (Organization of African Unity) is founded in Addis Ababa to give Africa a united voice in world affairs | |
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| 1963 |
| | | US author and illustrator Maurice Sendak publishes a fantasy for young children, Where the Wild Things Are | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Italian cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected pope and takes the name Paul VI | |
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| 1963 |
| | | British diplomat Kim Philby defects to the USSR and is discovered to have been a Soviet spy | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini is arrested in Qom, and imprisoned for eight months in Tehran, after instigating riots against the Shah | |
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| 1963 |
| | | President Kennedy, in divided Berlin, makes the dramatic declaration: Ich bin ein Berliner ('I am a Berliner') | |
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