President Kennedy is assasinated. Stores and businesses shut down for the entire weekend and Monday, in tribute.
- Congress enacts "equal pay for equal work" legislature for women.
- Two thirds of the world's automobiles are in the United States.
- Film goddess Marilyn Monroe is found dead of an apparent overdose. It becomes the most controversial death on record.
- The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, California, the first disco in the United States, is opened.
- A large cloud that some say resembles the face of Jesus is seen on Sunset Mountain, Arizona.
- In Camden, Tennessee, Country superstar Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley) is killed in a plane crash along with fellow performers Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Cline's manager and pilot Randy Hughes while returning from a benefit performance in Kansas City, KS for country radio disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
- The Coca-Cola Company debuts its first diet drink, TaB cola.
- Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was shown in US theaters.
- In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thich Quong Doc commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration.
- ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S.
- The first episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
- I Want to Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There are released in the U.S., marking the beginning of full-scale Beatlemania.
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