Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• April 12th - The Russians announced that Major Yuri Gagarin had made the first manned space flight. He completed an orbit of the earth in 89.1 minutes at a height of upto 190 miles
• April 17th - US aided , anti Castro exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
• June 27th - Dr Arthur Michael Ramsey was installed as the 100th Archbishop of Cantebury
• July 1st - Lady Diana Spencer, the future Princess of Wales was born
• August 20th - Construction of the Berlin Wall began, to halt the flow of refugees to the West
• December 19th - Indian troops retook Goa, ending 400 years of Portuguese rule
• The 'Pill' became available under the NHS
• Canon John Collins became chairman of CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmement)
• The 'Establishment came under the satirical eyes of Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Johnathan Miller and Alan Bennett in the review 'Beyond the Fringe' and set off a whole satire boom
• President Lumumba killed in the Congo, Katanga secession ends in 1962 after UN intervention
• Secretary of United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in an air crash, U Thant succeeds him
• South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
• Us breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba
• Alan Shepard makes the first US manned space flight
• Tanganyika becomes independent as Tanzania
• Multi racial "Freedom Riders" attacked in US south

February 11th

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• Contents includes : the Royal visit to India and Pakistan,
• Window on the World,
• Is there Life on the Planets: Mars,
• The King's School : Ely,

February 25th

• Front Cover - The Queen at Chittagong
• White House Children - The family of President Kennedy
• The Kakapo Parrot - Rediscovered

May 6th

• adverts = GUINNESS (Guinness Pets No.3 - GE.3383) , AUSTIN A40, SCHWEPPES, MONTE CARLO, ILFACOLOR FILMS, LAND ROVER, MIDLAND BANK and Full Page B & W ads: CANADA DRY,UNITED STEELS CO. and MORGAN CRUCIBLE GROUP
• Contents includes : Sierra Leone,
• the Queen Mother in Tunisia,
• 100 years ago : the American Civil War,
• the University of Toronto,
• the new block at Guy's Hospital,
• Car of the Month: the Triumph "Herald" 1200 Saloon
  

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