Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 is released.

Tony Richardson's Tom Jones is released.

Ingmar Bergman's The Silence is released.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is published in the West.

25 Jan.

 North and South Korea announce that they have agreed to field a joint team for the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

29 Jan.

France blocks Great Britain's application to join the European Economic Community.

5 Feb.

The conservative Canadian government headed by John Diefenbaker is overthrown by a no-confidence vote concerning Canadian defense policies.

7 Feb.

Likely in response to Indonesia's refusal to allow Israeli and Nationalist Chinese participation in the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee bars Indonesia from the Olympics.

9 Feb.

Having been overthrown the previous day by anti-Communist air force officers, Iraqi premier Abdul Karim Dassim is executed by his captors.

22 Feb.

Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad reports the discovery of Nordic...