| January 1 | Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful |
| January 1 | Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium |
| January 1 | Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand, Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa |
| January 2 | Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS |
| January 3 | Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome |
| January 3 | Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro |
| January 4 | 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City) |
| January 5 | Tony Sheridan and Beatles produce "My Bonnie" and "The Saints" |
| January 7 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27 |
| January 7 | Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails |
| January 7 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock |
| January 8 | Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Netherlands) |
| January 8 | Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th |
| January 9 | Mister M (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ |
| January 9 | NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks |
| January 9 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 10 | 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru |
| January 10 | Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500 |
| January 11 | Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die |
| January 13 | "Do Re Mi" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 400 performances |
| January 13 | Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 pts vs Chicago |
| January 14 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-30 |
| January 15 | 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64) |
| January 15 | Dutch and Indonesian Navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea |
| January 16 | Shooting begins on "Dr. No" |
| January 16 | Suit accuses New York City Board of Education uses "racial quotas" |
| January 17 | A NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m |
| January 17 | Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF |
| January 18 | Southern University closed due to demonstrations |
| January 18 | U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas |
| January 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 20 | "Kean" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 92 performances |
| January 21 | John F. Kennedy arrives in Uruguay |
| January 21 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
| January 21 | Snow falls in San Francisco |
| January 23 | Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 23 | British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R. |
| January 23 | Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb |
| January 24 | 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany |
| January 24 | Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles |
| January 24 | Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 24 | Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| January 26 | Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's |
| January 26 | Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard |
| January 26 | David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia |
| January 26 | "Twist" is impure and bans it from all Catholic schools |
| January 26 | U.S. launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mi (37,000-km) |
| January 27 | "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| January 28 | Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia and survives |
| January 30 | 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit |
| January 30 | U.N. General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) |
| January 30 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 31 | General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| January 31 | Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout" |
| February 1 | "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| February 1 | NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule |
| February 2 | 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games) |
| February 2 | 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years |
| February 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 3 | John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm |
| February 3 | President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs |
| February 4 | "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 113 performances |
| February 4 | Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game |
| February 4 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles |
| February 4 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt |
| February 5 | French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence |
| February 5 | Suit to bar Englewood New Jersey from "racial segregated" schools, filed |
| February 5 | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees |
| February 6 | Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named |
| February 7 | Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 |
| February 7 | President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba |
| February 7 | Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational |
| February 8 | KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| February 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 9 | Jamaica signs agreement to become independent |
| February 9 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 10 | Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA |
| February 10 | U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel |
| February 11 | Beatles record "Please, Please Me" |
| February 12 | Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia |
| February 14 | 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV |
| February 15 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 16 | Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres |
| February 16 | U.S. Open Tennis: Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win |
| February 17 | Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin" |
| February 17 | Storm in Hamburg, kills 265 |
| February 17 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs St. Louis |
| February 18 | France and Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war |
| February 18 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| February 19 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 20 | John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth in Friendship 7 |
| February 21 | Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands |
| February 22 | Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts |
| February 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 24 | General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea |
| February 24 | "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 28 performances |
| February 24 | "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 167 performances |
| February 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 25 | India Congress Party wins elections |
| February 25 | Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon |
| February 25 | Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands |
| February 26 | Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." premieres in New York City |
| February 26 | U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation |
| February 26 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs. New York |
| February 27 | South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st U.S. killed |
| February 28 | WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN |
| March 1 | American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95 |
| March 1 | K-Mart opens |
| March 1 | U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada |
| March 1 | Uganda became a self-governing country |
| March 2 | John F. Kennedy announces U.S. will resume above ground nuclear testing |
| March 2 | Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game |
| March 3 | British Antarctic Territory forms |
| March 4 | AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation |
| March 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 6 | St. Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals |
| March 6 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 6 | U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression |
| March 7 | Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio |
| March 7 | Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data) |
| March 8 | Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC) |
| March 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 9 | Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians |
| March 9 | U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight |
| March 10 | Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida |
| March 12 | Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia |
| March 13 | Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty |
| March 14 | Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France |
| March 14 | Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals |
| March 15 | 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter |
| March 15 | Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump |
| March 15 | KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| March 15 | "No Strings" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 580 performances |
| March 15 | Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in New York City |
| March 15 | Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season |
| March 16 | 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket |
| March 16 | U.S. Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167 |
| March 18 | Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees |
| March 18 | Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Supreme Soviet of U.S.S.R. |
| March 19 | "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 80 performances |
| March 19 | Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal |
| March 20 | Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater |
| March 21 | A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds |
| March 21 | Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands for birth control |
| March 21 | Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control |
| March 21 | Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36 |
| March 22 | "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert New York City for 300 performances |
| March 23 | John F. Kennedy visits SF |
| March 23 | Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs. WI age 21 years 77 days |
| March 23 | Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play and coach |
| March 23 | William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000 |
| March 24 | 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59 |
| March 24 | Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later |
| March 24 | Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys |
| March 25 | "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| March 25 | French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested |
| March 26 | Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature |
| March 27 | Ann Jellicoe's "Knack," premieres in London |
| March 27 | Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school |
| March 27 | Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy |
| March 28 | Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India |
| March 28 | Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees |
| March 29 | Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army |
| March 29 | Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show" |
| April 3 | Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races) |
| April 3 | Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| April 5 | Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in New York City |
| April 5 | NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m |
| April 5 | St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands |
| April 7 | Umrigar slams 172* vs. WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes |
| April 7 | Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail |
| April 8 | Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France |
| April 9 | 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280 |
| April 9 | 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win |
| April 9 | John F. Kennedy throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium |
| April 10 | 1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds |
| April 10 | 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2 |
| April 10 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR |
| April 11 | New York Mets make a losing debut |
| April 12 | San Mateo County withdraws from BART district, San Francisco Bay area |
| April 13 | Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record |
| April 13 | U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases |
| April 14 | Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam |
| April 14 | Georges Pompidou becomes president of France |
| April 15 | U.S. national debt above $300,000,000,000 |
| April 16 | Brazil nationalizes U.S. businesses |
| April 16 | Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News |
| April 18 | 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| April 19 | 66th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:48 |
| April 19 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m |
| April 20 | NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m |
| April 20 | New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North |
| April 20 | OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers |
| April 21 | Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington |
| April 22 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open |
| April 22 | New York Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season |
| April 22 | Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season |
| April 22 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
| April 23 | 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched |
| April 23 | New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1 |
| April 23 | Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral |
| April 24 | 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested |
| April 24 | MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA |
| April 24 | Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game |
| April 25 | Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on |
| April 25 | June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland |
| April 25 | Lion and Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated |
| April 25 | U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon |
| April 25 | U.S. resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island |
| April 26 | 1st Lockheed A-12 flies |
| April 26 | Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon |
| April 26 | Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0 |
| April 26 | U.S. and U.K. launch Ariel; 1st international payload |
| April 27 | Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything," premieres in London |
| April 27 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| April 29 | 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed win |
| April 29 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| April 30 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m |
| April 30 | Willie Mays hits 4 home runs |
| May 1 | 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara at Ecker Algeria |
| May 1 | Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start |
| May 1 | John F. Kennedy authorizes Area Redevelopment Act |
| May 2 | Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I |
| May 2 | OAS strikes in Algeria |
| May 2 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| May 2 | WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, New York (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| May 3 | Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) |
| May 4 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| May 5 | 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4 |
| May 5 | Los Angeles Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Baltimore Orioles, 2-0 |
| May 5 | West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album |
| May 6 | 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen) |
| May 6 | Antonio Segni elected president of Italy |
| May 6 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament |
| May 6 | Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos |
| May 6 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| May 7 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) |
| May 7 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| May 8 | 1st Atlas Centaur Launch |
| May 8 | "Funny Thing Happened" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 965 performances |
| May 8 | London trolley buses go out of service |
| May 9 | Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone |
| May 9 | Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time |
| May 9 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| May 11 | Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy |
| May 11 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| May 11 | U.S. sends troops to Thailand |
| May 12 | Grevelingendam closes |
| May 12 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| May 13 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| May 14 | Ex-president Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years |
| May 14 | Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain |
| May 14 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| May 15 | U.S. Marines arrive in Laos |
| May 17 | Marin County withdraws from BART district |
| May 19 | 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2 |
| May 19 | "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 76 performances |
| May 19 | Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea |
| May 19 | "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99 |
| May 19 | Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431 |
| May 19 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
| May 20 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
| May 21 | 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games |
| May 22 | 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth |
| May 22 | Netherlands telephone net becomes completely automated |
| May 22 | Robert A. Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m |
| May 22 | Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game |
| May 23 | Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio) |
| May 23 | OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life |
| May 23 | Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7 |
| May 24 | M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit |
| May 25 | Isley Brothers release "Twist and Shout" |
| May 25 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
| May 25 | U.S. unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week |
| May 26 | "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances |
| May 27 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| May 28 | Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, New York |
| May 28 | U.S. stock market drops $20.8 billion in 1 day |
| May 28 | Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio |
| May 29 | Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show" |
| May 30 | 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India) |
| May 30 | Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres |
| May 31 | "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV |
| June 1 | Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit |
| June 1 | Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade |
| June 1 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m |
| June 2 | 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) |
| June 3 | Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130 |
| June 3 | Betsy Rawls and Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| June 3 | Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands |
| June 3 | WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| June 4 | Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to U.S. |
| June 6 | Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums |
| June 7 | NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m |
| June 8 | Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8) |
| June 9 | 94th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Jaipur wins in 2:28.8 |
| June 9 | "Bill of Hare," premieres in U.S. |
| June 9 | Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City |
| June 10 | A record 54 home runs hit in baseball |
| June 10 | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of U.S.S.R., sets then long jump record at 27' 3" |
| June 10 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament |
| June 11 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted an honorary degree from Yale |
| June 12 | 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz |
| June 12 | Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition government |
| June 12 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m |
| June 13 | "Bob Newhart Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 15 | Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win |
| June 15 | South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes |
| June 15 | WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 16 | 2 U.S. Army officers killed in Saigon |
| June 17 | 62nd U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA |
| June 17 | Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago |
| June 17 | Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers |
| June 17 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| June 21 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m |
| June 22 | 1st test flight of Hoovercraft |
| June 22 | French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed |
| June 23 | Laos Suvanna Phuma forms government |
| June 23 | Larry Doby, retires from Cleveland Indians to play in Japan |
| June 23 | "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St. James New York City after 205 performances |
| June 24 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament |
| June 24 | Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest New York Yankee game in history |
| June 25 | Inonu Government forms in Turkey |
| June 25 | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms |
| June 25 | Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional |
| June 26 | Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill |
| June 26 | Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0 |
| June 26 | WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 27 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m |
| June 27 | Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems, EDS |
| June 28 | Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands |
| June 29 | 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner |
| June 29 | Frank Howard, hits the 5,000th Dodger home run |
| June 29 | John F. Kennedy dines with premier MacMillan in London |
| June 30 | 17th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom |
| June 30 | French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria |
| June 30 | Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits New York Mets, 5-0 |
| June 30 | Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters |
| June 30 | Rwanda and Burundi become independent |
| July 1 | Algeria votes for independence |
| July 1 | Burundi and Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days) |
| July 2 | Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow |
| July 2 | Fidel Castro visits Moscow |
| July 3 | Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5) |
| July 4 | Island Records begins |
| July 4 | KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast |
| July 5 | 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria |
| July 5 | Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule |
| July 5 | Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers |
| July 6 | 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61) |
| July 6 | Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria |
| July 6 | Mantle hits his 3rd and 4th consecutive homer |
| July 7 | 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64) |
| July 7 | Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races |
| July 7 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 8 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open |
| July 9 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| July 10 | 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington |
| July 10 | All star MVP: Maury Wills (Los Angeles Dodgers) |
| July 10 | Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia |
| July 10 | Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched |
| July 10 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| July 11 | 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) |
| July 11 | Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning |
| July 11 | Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days |
| July 11 | Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba) |
| July 11 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| July 11 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 12 | 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (U.S.S.R.) |
| July 12 | Rolling Stones 1st performance, Marquee Club, London |
| July 13 | 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea |
| July 13 | 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon |
| July 13 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 14 | Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished |
| July 14 | Brave's Hank Aaron hits HR #500 |
| July 14 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 15 | Algeria becomes member of Arab League |
| July 15 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
| July 15 | Netherlands and Indonesia accord over New-Guinea |
| July 16 | NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
| July 17 | East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall |
| July 17 | Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) |
| July 17 | Senate rejects medicare for aged |
| July 17 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 18 | Minn Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn and Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning |
| July 19 | Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero |
| July 20 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 13th Symphony |
| July 20 | France and Tunisia recover diplomatic relations |
| July 21 | 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia |
| July 21 | Battles on Chinese and Indies boundary |
| July 22 | 1st U.S. Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off |
| July 22 | 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink Golf Club Pennsylvania |
| July 22 | Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles) |
| July 22 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament |
| July 25 | House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex |
| July 26 | Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba |
| July 26 | Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher |
| July 27 | Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission |
| July 27 | Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia |
| July 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| July 28 | 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania |
| July 28 | Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean |
| July 30 | 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
| July 30 | All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels) |
| July 31 | Federation of Malaysia forms |
| July 31 | Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall |
| August 1 | Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 |
| August 1 | Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
| August 2 | NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
| August 3 | 29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000) |
| August 3 | New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games |
| August 4 | Nelson Mandela captured by South African police |
| August 5 | 1st quasar located by radio |
| August 5 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| August 5 | Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa |
| August 5 | U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports |
| August 6 | Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule |
| August 7 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 10 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 11 | Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 |
| August 11 | Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari" |
| August 11 | Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) |
| August 11 | Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down |
| August 12 | 1st time 2 people in space |
| August 12 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament |
| August 12 | Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15 |
| August 13 | Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously |
| August 14 | French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel |
| August 14 | NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m |
| August 14 | U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million |
| August 15 | Netherlands and Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea |
| August 15 | Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia |
| August 16 | Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer |
| August 17 | Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr |
| August 17 | E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector |
| August 18 | Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer" |
| August 19 | Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55 |
| August 19 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
| August 20 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 21 | Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ |
| August 22 | Failed assassination on president De Gaulle |
| August 22 | Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga |
| August 22 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 23 | 1st Europe-U.S. live TV program (via Telstar) |
| August 23 | John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell |
| August 24 | Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds |
| August 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 26 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open |
| August 26 | Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits Kansas City A's, 1-0 |
| August 27 | Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus |
| August 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| August 28 | 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana, state record |
| August 28 | Dr. Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid |
| August 28 | Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)" |
| August 29 | Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended |
| August 29 | U.S. U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba |
| August 31 | Trinidad and Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day) |
| September 1 | 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran |
| September 1 | KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 1 | U.N. announces Earth population has hit 3 billion |
| September 1 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 2 | Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place |
| September 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 3 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
| September 4 | Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI |
| September 4 | French president De Gaulle visits West Germany |
| September 5 | Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II |
| September 5 | Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th |
| September 6 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 8 | Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) |
| September 8 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 9 | 76th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64) |
| September 9 | 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) |
| September 9 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
| September 9 | Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses |
| September 9 | WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 10 | 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) |
| September 10 | KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 10 | Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign) |
| September 10 | WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums |
| September 11 | Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles |
| September 11 | KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 12 | Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game |
| September 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 15 | Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (U.S. wins) |
| September 15 | "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances |
| September 15 | KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk |
| September 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 15 | WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 16 | Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8) |
| September 16 | Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8 |
| September 16 | Public TV channel 13 begins in New York City |
| September 16 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open |
| September 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 17 | Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools |
| September 17 | U.S. space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts |
| September 18 | Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games |
| September 18 | Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A's to Dallas-Ft. Worth |
| September 18 | Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN |
| September 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 20 | Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria |
| September 20 | Governor R. Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Universe (James Meredith) |
| September 22 | Bob Dylan plays New York City Carnegie Hall |
| September 23 | ABC's 1st color TV series-Jetsons |
| September 23 | Los Angeles Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 |
| September 23 | Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora," premieres in Berlin |
| September 23 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open |
| September 23 | NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts |
| September 24 | KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 24 | U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss |
| September 25 | Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia |
| September 25 | Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title |
| September 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 25 | Weatherly (U.S.) beats Gretel (Australia) in 19th
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