1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
First telecommunications satellite, Telstar, in orbit
U.S. astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth
"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" by Edward Albee
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
"Marilyn Monroe" by Andy Warhol
"Picture Emphasizing Stillness" by David Hockney
"The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan" by Bob Dylan
"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner," directed by Tony Richardson
"To Kill a Mockingbird," directed by Robert Mulligan