Che Guevara publishes La guerra de guerrillas (Guerrilla Warfare)
Elias Canetti publishes Masse und Macht (Crowds and Power)
The Pulitzer Prize in drama is awarded to the creators of Fiorello! (Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick)
Allen Drury receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Advise and Consent
In a landmark obscenity trial, Regina v. Penguin Books Ltd, the court determines that D. H. Lawrence’s long-banned novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover is not obscene
U.S. presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy debate on television
The first weather satellite, Tiros I is launched by the U.S.
American U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union, pilot Gary Francis Powers is captured
Seventeen African nations, formerly colonies of European powers, gain their independence
