Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• February 20th - Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth
• April 11th - Adolph Eichmann, the ex Nazi leader, was put on trial in Jerusalem. He had been caught by Israeli agents in Argentina during 1960. He was hanged.
• May 25th - Sir Basil Spence's new cathedral was consecrated in Coventry to replace the original which was badly bombed during the war
• August 5th - US film star Marilyn Monroe, 36, died of a drug overdose of sleeping pills. Speculation as to what really happened that night still continues.
• October 28th - Nuclear war was averted as the Cuban missile crisis ended. President John F Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev agreed to reduce nuclear arsenals
• November 7th - South African black leader Nelson Mandela was sent to jail on Robin Island, for inciting a National strike and his initial sentence was for 5 years
• The satirical magazine Private Eye and the BBC tv show That Was the Week that Was (TW3) was launched. Scandals about public figures were unearthed and mocked in an increasingly satirical society
• A huge post war building programme started in London with a slum clearance policy and rehousing families in Tower blocks
• Algeria becomes independent
• Uganda becomes independent

June 2nd

• Consecration of Coventry Cathedral. Royal Visit. Four pages plus a double page photograph of the procession moving up the aisle
• Picture of Lieutenant - Commader Malcolm Scott after his tri-orbital flight in Mercury space capsule 'Aurora 7'
• Students riot during anti-facist demonstartion against OAS
• Archaeology - 'Homeric' burial discovered in Cyprus
• Article on The Royal Engineers
• Half lion-Half leopard. Litter of leopons bred in Tokoyo Zoo
• Triumph Herald 1200 Convertible

June 9th

• Front Cover - Young Prince Andrew and the Royal family gather on the balcony to watch flypast on June 2nd
• Inside - Boeing 707 crashes outside Orly Airport
• Night Scotsman Train crashes killing 3
• The trial of Adolf Eichmann
• The Queen Mother with Boer War Veterans
• Discoveries at Catal Huyuk
• The Beggars Opera

June 23rd

• Front Cover - The Queen and Prince Phillip on their way to the installation service of the Order of the Garter on June 18th.
• Inside - Photo Finish at The Oaks
• A Royal Visit to Portals
• News from England and Norway
• The Korda Sale,
• Pigmy Hippo`s

November 3rd

• The articles include: Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant;
• A Window on the world - The cuban Crisis by Cyril Falls;
• Norfolk Squires at Home by Sir Charles Petrie;
• An Irish Garden in Autumn by Edward Hyams;
• Archeological Section by T Guyler Young;
• A Page For Collectors by Frank Davis;
• A Retrospective Exhibition of The Work Of Sir William Russell Flint (Lots of photographs);
• Kookabrra The Laughing Jackass by Maurice Burton;
• 3 photographs of Personalities including William John Vassall, Spy / John Steinbeck;
• The world of The theatre by J C Trewin;
• Drawings of Croydon's New Cultural Centre Concert Hall & theatre; The Car of the month report by Bill Hartley on The Humber Hawk estate car
• The advertisements include: Coventry Climax car; the Antiquary Whisky; Michael Jospeh Books; Remy Martin Brandy; Capstan Cigarettes; Dray Sack Sherry; South African Airways; Highland Queen Whisky; Booths Gin; Hennesy Brandy; Nassau Bahamas; Black & White whisky; King George IV Whisky; Hawker Sidley Group; Brooke Marine Ltd; Johnnie Walker whisky; East Africa; Head Wrightson & Co; Midland Bank ltd Fortnum and Mason.
• 4 page supplement on SKINNERS HALL with drawings by Dennis Flanders.
• Photographs include: General De Gaulle casting his vote;
• The Queen at the Monmouth Steel works;
• events which surrounded the Cuban Missile Situation;
• Various photos from around the world; Nona Gaprindashvili Womens World Chess Champion;
• Norwegian Coastal Liner SANCT SVITHUN which sank;
• Model of Jet Engined Bluebird Car; American aerial photos on the Cuban Missile crisis;
• South Kensington's New Botanical Gallery;
• Duke of Edinburgh in Manchester & Birmingham;
• Bessie Braddock MP.

December 15th

• The articles include: Our NoteBook by arthur Bryant;
• A window on The world - Britain and the Common Market by Cyril Falls;
• TheIrish Famine by Charles Petrie;
• Archeological Section by Prof. Froelich Rainey;
• Raking dead leaves by Edward Hyams;
• Books on Art by Frank Davis;
• Kangaroos, australias Problem by Maurice Burton;
• Town and Country theatre by J C Trewin;
• A Christmas Hamper of Books for Children comiled by E D O'Brien,
• Motoring section - Cars for Export & Road Safety.
• Photographs include Smoke and fog in England;
• Royal Smithfield Show;
• London Christmas Tree;
• Personalities of the Week - Sir James Mann, Barbara Fell (guilty under official secrets Act),
• Sultan of Brunei,
• Dame Mary Gilmore,
• Admiral Sir David Luce;
• The Gerenuk Antelope (8 pictures);
• Oil Sketches of Dogs by Sir Edwin Landseer;
• Drawn Impressions of some of the most modern Russian Bombers, FighterPlanes, Airliners and helicopters;
• P & O liner "Oriana";
• The Pope;
• Drawing of W.H. Auden by Juliet Pannett;
• Funeral of Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands;
• Royal pictures;
• Full Page photo of President Tito of Yugoslavia.

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