January: The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman (British Railways No. 60103) makes last scheduled run, before being preserved.

February: Suffering from severe depression American-born poet, & wife of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London.

March: Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds film poster Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" staring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy & Suzanne Pleshette is released.

April: Yugoslavia changes its official name to the "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" & Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.

May: Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor uses fire hoses & police dogs on protestors in Birmingham, Alabama.

June: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space piloting Vostok 6 during a three day mission.

July: ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes introduced into service by the United States Postal Service. There are now over 42,000 Codes.

August: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech to over 250,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

September: The United States Senate ratifies the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between the Soviet Union, United Kingdom & U.S.

October: Édith Piaf ('The Little Sparrow'), singer & one of France's greatest international stars dies of liver cancer aged 47.

November: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated & Texas Governor John B. Connally seriously wounded in Dallas, Texas.

December: The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program by the United States Air Force cancelled just after construction has begun.