Events
- 13 January – BBC TV broadcasts the play The Madhouse on Castle Street in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The play co-stars a young American folk music singer named Bob Dylan.
- 9 August – Ready Steady Go! premieres on ITV.
- 30 September – BBC TV begins using a globe as their symbol. They would continue to use it in varying forms until 2002.
- 23 November – That Was The Week That Was broadcasts its famous, non-satirical Kennedy tribute episode on BBC TV.
- 23 November – Doctor Who premieres on BBC TV. The First Doctor is portrayed by William Hartnell.
- 28 December – The satirical BBC show That Was The Week That Was (TW3) airs for the last time.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)