01 Jan	Rebel army drives out Cuban dictator
08 Jan	De Gaulle becomes president
29 Jan	Fog brings transport chaos
03 Feb	Buddy Holly killed in air crash
16 Feb	Castro sworn in as Cuban PM
17 Feb	Turkish leader involved in fatal crash
23 Feb	Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace
07 Mar	African activist flees to UK
22 Apr	Dame Margot Fonteyn released from jail
28 May	Monkeys survive space mission
11 Jun	Hovercraft marks new era in transport
22 Jun	Harrods in �34m merger talks
26 Jun	Queen and Eisenhower open seaway
24 Jul	Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words
26 Aug	US to 'stand by' West Germans
31 Aug	Anglo-US TV debate makes history
05 Sep	UK's first trunk call from a pay phone
12 Sep	Soviets launch rocket at the Moon
07 Oct	Southend Pier fire traps hundreds
09 Oct	'Supermac' leads Tories to victory
26 Oct	World glimpses far side of the Moon
14 Dec	Makarios elected president of Cyprus