| 1. Brezhnev becomes President of the U.S.S.R. |
| 2. Belgian Congo granted full independence |
| 3. Aneurin Bevan , British socialist politician, d. (b. 1897) |
| 4. John F. Kennedy elected President of the U.S. |
| 5. Historic TV debates between John F. Kennedy (Democrat) and Richard M. Nixon (Republican), presidential candidates |
| 6. U.S. Protests against Cuban expropriations |
| 7. Ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan d. (b. 1892) |
| 8. King Baudouin of Belgium marries Dona Fabiola of Spain |
| 9. Khrushchev in India, Burma, and Indonesia |
| 10. U.S. admits to aerial reconnaissance flights over U.S.S.R. when a U-2 airplane is shot down and its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, confesses |
| 11. Former Gestapo chief Adolf Eichmann arrested |
| 12. Cyprus becomes independent republic with Archbishop Makarios as president |
| 13. Adenauer visits the U.S. |
| 14. Khrushchev, Macmillan, Eisenhower, and de Gaulle meet in Paris but the summit talks fail |
