The United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow, banning atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.

Kenya's constitutional conference concluded arrangements advancing the colony toward internal self-rule, a decisive step on the path to full independence from Britain later that year.

Martin Luther King Jr. told 250,000 marchers at the Lincoln Memorial of his dream for racial equality, electrifying the civil rights movement.

NASA launched Syncom 2, the first satellite placed in geosynchronous orbit, transforming global telecommunications and broadcasting.

The Soviet Union launched Molniya-1, its first satellite designed for long-distance communications and television broadcast relay across the vast country.

India's fledgling space program fired its first sounding rocket from Thumba, a fishing village in Kerala, launching the country into the space age with borrowed and improvised gear.

President John F. Kennedy was shot while riding in an open motorcade through Dealey Plaza, dying minutes later at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

The BBC aired the first episode of Doctor Who, one day after Kennedy's assassination dominated headlines, launching what became television's longest-running science fiction series.

One day after Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johnson worked from the Oval Office as the nation reeled and CBS aired continuous coverage without commercial breaks.

BBC television aired the first episode of 'Doctor Who,' introducing a mysterious time traveler who would become British popular culture's longest-running science fiction icon.

Nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, killing him on live national television.

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