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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“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“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)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)