E. M. Forster's novel Maurice is published posthumously.

 Anthony Powell's novel Books Do Furnish A Room is published.

 Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave premieres.

 Federico Fellini's film The Clowns premieres.

 A cholera epidemic sweeps Bangladesh and leads to worldwide concern.

 Three Soviet cosmonauts are found dead in their returning spacecraft.

 The British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market.

 A worldwide monetary crisis results in the devaluation of the American dollar.

 Mount Etna produces its most spectacular eruption in forty-three years.

 New international efforts are made to control biological weapons.

 The shah of Iran celebrates the twenty-five hundredth anniversary of the Persian empire with a gala, attended by over fifty heads of state, at Persepolis, the ancient Persian capital.

2 Jan.

In Glasgow, Scotland, a crowd barrier at a soccer stadium collapses, killing sixty-six and wounding over one...