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Events relating to america
Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport
In Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov tells his story through an editor's annotations to a poem
Fidel Castro releases, for $53 million in food and medicine, the Cuban exiles taken prisoner in the Bay of Pigs fiasco
In The Gutenberg Galaxy Canadian author Marshall McLuhan develops the concept of the 'global village'
US poet Sylvia Plath publishes under a pseudonym her only novel, The Bell Jar
US poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
Gideon v. Wainwright establishes that every defendant in a US court has the right to be represented by a lawyer
Mary McCarthy's novel The Group follows the subsequent adventures of eight fellow graduates from Vassar
Liberal leader Lester Pearson begins five years at the head of minority governments in Canada
US environmentist Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, an impassioned warning of ecological disaster
US author and illustrator Maurice Sendak publishes a fantasy for young children, Where the Wild Things Are
President Kennedy, in divided Berlin, makes the dramatic declaration: Ich bin ein Berliner ('I am a Berliner')
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
In The Feminine Mystique US feminist Betty Friedan challenges the stereotypical view of woman's role
Bob Marley and five others form a band, the Wailers, that will for the first time give Jamaican music a global following
A massive civil rights march in Washington 'for Jobs and Freedom' wins the support of President Kennedy
'I have a dream' says Martin Luther King to 200,000 civil rights demonstrators in Washington
Andy Warhol moves into films with Sleep, showing a man asleep for six hours
The Tupamaros are formed as an urban guerrilla group in Uruguay
President Kennedy is shot in a motorcade driving through downtown Dallas, in Texas
On the death of John F. Kennedy, Vice-president Lyndon Johnson succeeds him as president of the USA
Chief suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by night-club owner Jack Ruby just two days after the assassination of President Kennedy
British film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry
Senior officers in Brazil seize power, alleging the threat of an imminent communist takeover
Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight champion for the first time, defeating Sonny Liston
