Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• February 7th - The Beatles ("She loves you" and "I wanna hold your hand")arrived in New York for a tour of the US. 'Beatlemania' swept the world
• March 15th - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married in Montreal
• March 18th - United Nations force was sent to Cyprus to restore peace
• April - A new TV channel BBC 2 started, with an emphasis on culture, science and the arts
• April 15th - Ronald Arthur Biggs, a 34 year old carpenter from Redhill, Surrey was found guilty of the Great Train Robbery along with 11 others
• June - Ian Smith threatened a unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia in response to Britains insistence on full rights for the black majority
• June 14th - Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in South Africa on charges of treason
• August 7th - US action against North Vietnam increased after an attack on a US destroyer
• October 14th - Nikita Krushchev was deposed in the USSR by Leonid Brezhnev and Kosygin
• October - Labour wins the general Election, back in power with a very small majority, Harold Wilson is Prime Minister
• November 3rd - 36th President Lyndon Johnson was re-elected to office in the USA
• Mary Quant became the fashion Guru of the time. London took over from Paris as the centre of the fashion scene
• Dr Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Nehru who had been the first Prime Minister of India in 1947 died
• In Jerusalem, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) was established
• Nyasaland becomes independent as Malawi
• Northern Rhodesia becomes independent as Zambia
• Cole Porter dies, aged 71
• Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston to become World haevyweight boxing champion

May 23rd

• Front Cover - Ballet Instructions at "Marineland" Dolphins and their pupil
• Inside - Vulcan Crashes
• The threat to Aden
• New Zealand - Centenary of last Maori War

August 8th

• Many articles and photos including a photo of the Queen inspecting the guard of honour at the RAF transport base on Thorney Island on 21st anniversary of transport command,
• Princess Alexandra in uniform at a reception in London for International Junior Red Cross Leaders,
• News from Africa and Talks in Moscow,
• Arts and Crafts of earliest Moscow revealed in the Kremlin,
• Wall Street in 1964,
• photo of Winston Churchill receiving honour at House of Commons.

Christmas Number

No. 6536A, Vol. 245, 14 1/2 inch by 10 wide, 66 pages, colour and black and white photos and illustrations.

• colour plates of paintings including centerfold painting of the Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus and of a Flemish altar piece of the same event,
• 2 page painting by Rino Ferrari of the Wise Men giving gifts to the Christ Child,
• a Christmas story by Anthony Gilbert,
• illustrated articles on Japanese dolls and on The Dover Road,
• Christmas Spirit By Anthony Gilbert - Illustrated By Juliet Pannett
• The Dover Road By Sidney Bernard
• Music And The Painter
• The Carol Singers By Josephine Bell - Illustrated Gerritt Vandersyde
• Pamela. The Earlies English Novel - Illustrated By Joseph Highmore
• The Nativity Presented By An Amateur Puppet Theatre
• colour plates and text on paintings of musicians, etc.
• and paintings of Christmas time at London markets including Covent Garden, Petticoat Lane,

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