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Arthur Miller writes the screenplay for The Misfits for his wife, Marilyn Monroe
Caribbean novelist V.S. Naipaul features his Trinidad family in A House for Mr Biswas
Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic for the past 30 years, is killed by a machine-gun attack on his car
US author Joseph Heller publishes his first novel, Catch-22, set in the last months of World War II
President Kennedy commits the US to placing a man on the moon and bringing him back safely by 1970
The novelist Ernest Hemingway kills himself with a shotgun in his log cabin in Idaho
Largely under the influence of Tito, a summit is held by nations eager to be non-aligned in the Cold War
Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles
US singer Bob Dylan writes one of his best-known songs, Blowin' in the Wind (included in his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
James Baldwin's third novel Another Country explores the conflicts in the life of a young unemployed black musician
Sam Walton opens the first Wal-Mart Discount store, in Rogers, Arkansas
US choreographer Glen Tetley creates a ballet to the music of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
John Ashbery's radical collection The Tennis Court Oath includes poems composed of sliced up fragments
The Reivers, the last of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, is published just a month before his death
Students for a Democratic Society publish in Michigan The Port Huron Statement, a seminal text of the New Left
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford star in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
US golfer Jack Nicklaus turns professional and in the same year wins the first of four US Open titles
Marilyn Monroe dies in Los Angeles from an overdose of sleeping pills
The veteran left-wing politician Victor Haya is elected president of Peru but is thwarted by a coup led by General Ricardo Godoy
The Trans-Canada Highway is completed, stretching some 5000 miles across the continent
The Sandinistas emerge as a guerrilla group in opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua
US intelligence reveals nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba, causing an international crisis
President Kennedy sends the US navy to prevent delivery of Soviet missiles to Cuba
US dramatist Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway
A deal between President Kennedy and Soviet premier Khrushchev defuses the Cuban missile crisis
