|
Month
|
What was happening in
United Kingdom |
|
What was happening
elsewhere? |
|
|
| January |
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
left for a tour
of India, Pakistan and Nepal |
|
Prime Minister Lumumba of the independent Congo is
arrested and imprisoned
|
| February |
Total eclipse of the sun |
Prime Minister Lumumba's death is announced - Riots
ensue in the Congo
|
| March |
First Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch |
Russian satellite
is launched with a dog inside and
returned safely
|
| April |
Census held |
Yuri Gagarin makes the first flight into space and
back
|
| May |
Betting and Gaming Act comes into force and betting
shops open |
South Africa becomes a republic and withdraws from
the Commonwealth
|
| June |
Dr. Ramsey is enthroned as the Archbishop of
Canterbury
|
Kennedy and Krushchev meet in Vienna |
| July |
|
| August |
Nothing major
|
|
Soviet sector of Berlin is sealed off from western sectors
|
| September |
Nothing major
|
Syria secedes from the United Arab Republic
|
| October |
Mr. Armstrong Jones created Earl of Snowdon
|
Russia tests a bomb of over 60 megatons and the world protests
|
| November |
Official negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market
begin in Brussels
|
South Africa's apartheid system condemned by the United Nations
|
| December |
Baby Burdett celebrates his first Christmas
|
Adolf Eichmann is executed for crimes against the Jewish people
and humanity
|
