5th » Apartheid in South Africa: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
6th » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
11th » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in Micro-g environment known as microgravity.
15th » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
16th » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
17th » East Germany or East German border guards Killing of Peter Fechter or kill Peter Fechter, 18, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
22nd » An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
27th » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
30th » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.