January 29 - Robert Frost, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, dies.
March 16 - The second American to be beatified by the Pope is Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton.
April 9 - Winston Churchill becomes an honorary U.S. citizen.
April 28 - Fidel Castro visits the U.S.
June 17 - H. Maxim and R. Schupphaus receive a patent for smokeless gunpowder, and this product is
adopted by the U.S. government to produce dynamite.
August 5 - A nuclear test ban treaty is signed by Great Britain, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
August 18 - James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
August 28 - Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington in Washington, D.C.
September 7 - The Football Hall of Fame is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
September 9 - A Federal injunction is issued to Alabama Governor George Wallace as he orders the state police to keep African-American students from enrolling in white schools.
October 11 - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt is the first Presidential wife portrayed on a commemorative U.S. postage stamp.
October 21 - The first trimline telephones are placed in service in Michigan.
October 22 - The first armored division of the U.S. Army is transported by airplane to a foreign country, going from Texas to Germany.
November 22 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn into the office of President.
November 27 - The first satellite (Centaur 2) to be fueled by liquid hydrogen is launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
November 28 - Just six days after the assassination of President Kennedy, President Johnson announces that the Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, will be renamed "The John F. Kennedy Space Center."
