Book of quotations of Chairman Mao is published.

Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-Up is released.

19 Jan.

Indira Gandhi, daughter of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is elected prime minister of India.

3 Feb.

An unmanned Soviet craft, Luna 9, makes the first soft landing on the moon.

17 Feb.

France launches its first satellite into orbit.

1 Mar.

In the first physical contact with another planet, a Soviet spacecraft crashes onto the surface of Venus.

12 Mar.

France announces that it plans to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

23 Mar.

The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Arthur Michael Ramsey, meets in Rome with Pope Paul VI.

3 Apr.

The Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes the first man-made object to orbit the moon.

10 Apr.

British novelist Evelyn Waugh dies at age sixty-two in Taunton, Somerset, England.

21 Apr.

The world's third heart-transplant operation is performed in Houston, Texas.

In a runoff election the Guatemalan Congress elects Mendez...