Events
- January 15 – Tyne Tees Television, the ITV franchise for North East England, goes on air.
- May 28 – Launch of Lebanon's first television station, Télé Liban.
- July 13–17 – The Hate That Hate Produced introduces the Nation of Islam to white Americans
- July 24 – The Kitchen Debate takes place in Moscow, captured on color videotape.
- October 27 – Anglia Television, the ITV franchise for Eastern England, goes on air.
- October 31 – Ulster Television, the ITV franchise for Northern Ireland, goes on air.
- November 29-The Grammy Awards are first televised as part of NBC's Sunday Showcase.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
—Marilyn French (b. 1929)