Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger is published.

Marc Chagall's painting Le Champ de Mars is exhibited.

Alain Resnais's film Hiroshima, Mon Amour, with Emmuelle Rosa, premieres.

Marcel Camus's film Black Orpheus premieres.

Francois Truffaut's film The 400 Blows premieres.

Jean-Luc Goddard's film Breathless, with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seaberg, premieres.

Michelangelo Antonioni's film L Avventura premieres.

Alexei Batalov's film The Overcoat premieres.

Kon Ichakawa's film Fires on the Plain premieres.

West German clinics observe births of children with the physical deformity phocomelia, which has not appeared in the past five years.

The Nikon F 35-mm Single Lens Reflex camera is manufactured by Nippon Kogaku.

Russian archeologist Tatiana Proskeuriakov finds an important pattern of dates in the lives of certain Mayan individuals in the Yucatan. This discovery allows scholars to decipher the glyph symbols depicting the periods in which certain rulers reigned.

Christopher Sydney Cockerell, a pioneer in hovercrafts, demonstrates his SRN-...