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Events relating to england
US poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
English author John Le Carré publishes a Cold-War thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
British choreographer Frederick Ashton creates Marguerite and Armand for Margot Fonteyn and her new partner, Rudolf Nureyev
A scandal involving the minister of war, John Profumo, damages the Macmillan government in Britain
Young British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers work together as Team 4
British diplomat Kim Philby defects to the USSR and is discovered to have been a Soviet spy
English author Margaret Drabble publishes her first novel, A Summer Birdcage
The Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed by the USA, USSR and UK, is the first of many international attempts to limit the threat of nuclear war
Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, retires after building the company to international stature
Sexual intercourse begins in this year, according to Philip Larkin's 1974 poem Annus Mirabilis
Macmillan resigns on grounds of ill health and is succeeded by Alec Douglas-Home as UK premier
British film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry
Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley begin a famous partnership in Ashton's The Dream
Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In a match at the Oval, England cricketer Freddie Trueman becomes the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets
English author A.S. Byatt publishes her first novel, Shadow of a Sun
Two men are hanged in Britain, in the last use of capital punishment before its abolition in 1965
The Beatles reach number one in both the UK and the US with their single 'Can't Buy Me Love'
After graduating from college in India, Aung San Suu Kyi moves to England to continue her education at St Hugh's College in Oxford
Harold Wilson becomes prime minister after Labour narrowly wins the UK general election
The immediate introduction of comprehensive schools in Britain, in place of grammar schools, is Labour party policy
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet
Winston Churchill dies, and lies in state in London's ancient Westminster Hall
David Lean directs Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in a film of Pasternak's Dr Zhivago
The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands
