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Events relating to america
US physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover cosmic background radiation, lending strong support to the Big Bang theory
US poet John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs introduce Henry, his alter ego
Papa Doc Duvalier, ruling through the brutal Tontons Macoutes, makes himself president of Haiti for life
Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead takes its title from the last poem, about modern disregard for a Civil War monument
Fiddler on the Roof, based on a novel by Sholom Aleichem, opens on Broadway with Zero Mostel playing Tevye the Milkman
President Johnson pushes through a Civil Rights Act against strong Senate opposition
A reported incident in the Gulf of Tonkin triggers US intervention against North Vietnam, in a significant step towards the Vietnam War
Peter Sellers plays three different roles in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock publishes her first collection, The Eye of the Hurricane
US author Joyce Carol Oates publishes her first novel, With Shuddering Fall
US author Saul Bellow publishes Herzog, a novel featuring a professor of history who is a compulsive sender of messages
Martin Luther King wins the Nobel Peace Prize for leading non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in the USA
Lyndon B. Johnson is elected US president in his own right, winning decisively against Republican Barry Goldwater
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 4260 feet (1298m)
A military junta seizes power in Bolivia, ending the 12-year left-wing regime of Paz Estenssoro
Canadian author Marshall McLuhan declares, in Understanding Media, that 'the medium is the message'
Surgeons Michael Bakey in the USA and Vasilii Kolesov in the USSR pioneer coronary bypass surgery, using the patient's mammary artery
A royal proclamation formally establishes the new national flag of Canada
US President Lyndon Johnson launches a regular bombing campaign against North Vietnam
The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands
Black activist and convert to Islam Malcolm X is assassinated when giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York
George Grant publishes an influential political tract, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism
The Vietnam War enters a new dimension with the deployment of US ground troops in the country
The first communications satellite, Early Bird, is launched from Cape Carnaveral
US marines intervene in civil war in the Dominican Republic to prevent a communist takeover
