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:
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)