Events[change | edit source] January 5 – The Beach Boys record one of their trademark songs, Surfin USA February 11- The Beatles record 10 songs for the album Please Please Me. September 15 – Birmingham Sunday when a bomb killed 4 black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama September – The X-Men make their debut. November 22 – John F. Kennedy assassinated, Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President. November 23 – Doctor Who airs for the first time in the United Kingdom. December 31 – The Central African Federation breaks apart, and eventually became Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia. The cassette tape invented. Births[change | edit source] March 21 – Shawn Lane, American musician May 8 – Helena Blagne Zaman, Slovene singer May 9 – Barry Douglas Lamb, rock musician, writer, Christian preacher May 11 – Natasha Richardson, actress May 12 – Vanessa A. Williams, actress May 24 – Joe Dumars, basketball star May 25 – Mike Myers, actor, comedian June 6 – Jason Isaacs, actor June 9 – Johnny Depp, actor June 13 – Bettina Bunge, tennis player. June 17 – Greg Kinnear, TV host and actor June 18 – Bruce Smith, American football player June 23 – Colin Montgomerie, golfer. June 25 – George Michael, singer June 27 – Meera Syal, comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress July 9 – Johnny Depp, American actor July 16 – Phoebe Cates, actress July 24 – Karl Malone, basketball July 30 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress August 3 – James Hetfield, Metallica frontman and co-founder August 6 – Kevin Mitnick, computer cracker August 19 – Joey Tempest, Europe frontman August 19 – John Stamos, actor August 23 – Kenny Wallace, NASCAR race car driver August 24 – Hideo Kojima, video game director August 30 – Paul Oakenfold, DJ September 7 – Eazy-E, American rapper September 10 – Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner September 21 – Cecil Fielder, baseball player September 29 – Dave Andreychuk, NHL player October 1 – Mark McGwire, baseball star October 10 – Daniel Pearl, journalist (d. 2002) October 22 – Brian Boitano, figure skater October 26 – Natalie Merchant, singer/songwriter/musician October 31 – Fred McGriff, baseball player November 13 – Vinny Testaverde, American football quarterback November 18 – Dante Bichette, baseball player November 19 – Terry Farrell, actress November 21 – Nicolette Sheridan, actress November 24 – Iris Erlingsdottir, OMD, writer, journalist December 2 – John Kennedy Morrisey, entertainer/athlete/storyteller December 13 – Ilkka Remes, writer December 16 – Benjamin Bratt, actor December 18 – Brad Pitt, actor December 23 – Jim Harbaugh, American football player Deaths[change | edit source] January 2 – Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904) January 2 – Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910) January 5 – Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896) January 18 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899) January 29 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874) January 30 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899) February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (suicide) (b. 1932) February 28 – Eppa Rixey, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1891) March 4 – William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883) March 5 – Patsy Cline, singer (Cowboy Copas) (b. 1932) April 6 – Otto Struve, astronomer (b. 1897) April 9 – Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (b. 1891) May 12 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882) May 31 – Edith Hamilton, educator and writer (b. 1867) June 3 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881) June 11 – Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (suicide)(b. 1897) June 18 – Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (suicide)(b. 1912) August 5 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908) August 23 – Glen Gray, saxophonist and conductor (b. 1906) August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882) September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889) October 11 Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915) Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889) November 1 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901) November 15 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888) November 22 John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917) Aldous Huxley, English novelist (b. 1894) C. S. Lewis, English novelist and Christian apologist (b. 1898) November 24 – Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy alleged assassin (shot) (b. 1939) November – Luis Cernuda, Spanish writer (b. 1902) December 1 – Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in World War II December 2 – Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner (b. 1875) December 5 – Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (b. 1828) December 5 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905) December 28 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895) Movies released[change | edit source] How the West Was Won Cleopatra The Longest Day Lawrence of Arabia Irma La Douce The V.I.P.s Son of Flubber The Great Escape Tom Jones Charade From Russia With Love The Sword in the Stone The Birds Blood Feast It Happened at the Worlds Fair Fun in Acapulco Zuo ye meng hun zhong Mépris, Le La Baie des anges 8½ Bye Bye Birdie The Nutty Professor The Mask An Actors Revenge Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Hud Hit songs[change | edit source] Dominique – The Singing Nun Please Please Me – The Beatles She Loves You – The Beatles Love Me Do – The Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand – The Beatles From Me To You – The Beatles In Dreams – Roy Orbison Blue Bayou – Roy Orbison Mean Woman Blues – Roy Orbison Pretty Paper – Roy Orbison Hey Paula – Paul & Paula Hes So Fine – The Chiffons Bo Diddley – Buddy Holly Brown Eyed Handsome Man – Buddy Holly Surf City – Jan & Dean Its My Party – Lesley Gore Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa – Gene Pitney Be My Baby – The Ronettes Wipe Out – The Surfaris If I Had A Hammer – Trini Lopez Da Doo Ron Ron – The Crystals Pipeline – The Chantays Walk Like A Man – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Heat Wave – Martha & the Vandellas Up On The Roof – The Drifters I Cant Stay Mad At You – Skeeter Davis Only In America – Jay & the Americans Who Stole The Keeshka? – Matys Brothers Wonderful Summer – Robin Ward I Only Want to Be With You – Dusty Springfield The Folk Singer – Tommy Roe Guilty – Jim Reeves Is This Me – Jim Reeves New books[change | edit source] The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath Benefactor – Susan Sontag Caravans – James A. Michener Cats Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut City of Night – John Rechy The Collector – John Fowles Elizabeth Appleton – John OHara False Colours – Georgette Heyer John Clelands Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure – John Cleland The Glass-Blowers – Daphne Du Maurier Gradmother and the Priests – Taylor Caldwell The Group – Mary McCarthy Happiness Is a Warm Puppy – Charles M. Schulz The Making of the English Working Class – E. P. Thompson On Her Majestys Secret Service – Ian Fleming Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes) – Pierre Boulle The Rise of the West – William H. McNeill The Sand Pebbles – Richard McKenna Second Skin – John Hawkes The Shoes of the Fisherman – Morris West Six Easy Pieces – Richard P. Feynman The Spy who Came in from the Cold – John le Carré That Summer in Paris – Morley Callaghan Nobel Prizes[change | edit source] Nobel Prize in Physics – Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen Chemistry – Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta Medicine – Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley Literature – Giorgos Seferis Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
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