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After disappearing in Beirut, British journalist H. A. R. Philby is given asylum by the Soviet Union.
8 Aug.
A masked gang escapes with more than $5 million taken from a mail train near London; after being caught, the twelve are sentenced to a total of 307 years in prison.
30 Aug.
An emergency hot line between Washington and Moscow is opened.
15 Sept.
Malaysia is officially created.
7 Oct.
A hurricane kills five thousand people in Haiti and leaves one hundred thousand homeless.
10 Oct.
British prime minister Harold Macmillan announces his retirement.
12-16 Nov.
Prof. Frederick C. Barghoorn, chair of the Soviet studies department at Yale University, is arrested in the Soviet Union and charged with espionage; at President Kennedy's request he is released four days later.
22 Nov.
President Kennedy is shot and killed in Dallas.
9 Dec.
Zanzibar and Pemba become independent of Britain.
11 Dec.
Kenya becomes independent of Britain.
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