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John Ashbery's radical collection The Tennis Court Oath includes poems composed of sliced up fragments
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, setting poems by Wilfred Owen, is first performed in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral
The Eritrean parliament votes to merge fully with Ethiopia, ending Eritrean autonomy
Adolf Eichmann, convicted in Israel for his role in the Holocaust, is hanged in Tel Aviv
The Reivers, the last of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, is published just a month before his death
British author Doris Lessing publishes an influential feminist novel, The Golden Notebook
Students for a Democratic Society publish in Michigan The Port Huron Statement, a seminal text of the New Left
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford star in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
British dancer Peggy van Praagh is appointed the first director of the newly formed Australian Ballet
Ian Smith's white supremacist party, the Rhodesian Front, wins power in Rhodesia's election
A massive yes vote in a referendum is immediately followed by French recognition of Algerian independence
US golfer Jack Nicklaus turns professional and in the same year wins the first of four US Open titles
Foreign visits to Burma are restricted to three days (extended in the next decade to one week)
Marilyn Monroe dies in Los Angeles from an overdose of sleeping pills
The veteran left-wing politician Victor Haya is elected president of Peru but is thwarted by a coup led by General Ricardo Godoy
David Lean directs Peter O'Toole in the title role of the film Lawrence of Arabia
Ruhollah Khomeini, a leading ayatollah in Qom, denounces the Shah of Iran and declares a fatwa against his regime
17-year-old English cellist Jacqueline du Pré creates a stir playing Elgar's concerto in the Royal Festival Hall
Khrushchev permits publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, in the literary journal Novy Mir
The Trans-Canada Highway is completed, stretching some 5000 miles across the continent
The Sandinistas emerge as a guerrilla group in opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua
The former British colony of Uganda becomes an independent republic, with Milton Obote as prime minister
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican begins, 94 years after the start of the First Vatican Council under Pius IX
US intelligence reveals nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba, causing an international crisis
President Kennedy sends the US navy to prevent delivery of Soviet missiles to Cuba
