UWF Events

• Florida’s soon-to-be governor, Farris Bryant, makes a campaign promise to provide a degree-granting institution in West Florida before his term ends

World Events

• Civil rights bill passes Senate
• U2 spy plane downed over Russia
• Sen. John F. Kennedy defeats V.P. Richard Nixon for the presidency
• Harper Lee publishes To Kill a Mockingbird
• Disk jockeys convicted of accepting “payola”
• Charles Van Doren arrested for cheating on TV quiz show
• First class postage stamp costs $.04
• Echo weather balloon orbits earth
• Coronary problems linked to smoking
• 16-year-old Bobby Fischer wins U.S. chess championship
• Arnold Palmer defeats Jack Nicklaus in golf’s U.S. Open