Events
- April 30 - Theatrical première of Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, originally performed on radio in 1932.
- July 21 - D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of a trio of books (the others being Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill), the ban on which is fought and overturned in court with assistance by lawyer Charles Rembar in 1959.; the book, published in 1928, legally circulates in the U.S. after a 31-year obscenity ban.
- Aldous Huxley turns down the offer of a knighthood.
- First appearance of Astérix the Gaul.
- Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School.
- Frank Herbert begins researching Dune.
- Frederik Pohl becomes editor of Galaxy magazine.
- Marcel Achard is elected to the Académie française.
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