Flat Stanley

 

The children's book Flat Stanley came out in this year

You only live twice

This was the year that Ian Fleming published You Only Live Twice. It became a film in 1967.

Death of Nehru

This is the year that Jawaharlal Nehru prime minister of India died from a heart attack (May 27)

He was born in 1889

Last men to hang

On August 13 Peter Anthony Allen was hanged at Walton Prison in Liverpool and Gwynne Owen Evans at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, for the murder of John Alan West. They were the last people to be executed in the UK.

The Great Train Robbery

On April 16 at the Buckingham Assize Court twelve men were given sentences totalling 307 years for stealing £2,600,000 in used bank notes, after holding up the night train from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.

Nelson Mandela

In June Nelson Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison. Mandela would remain imprisoned (there and in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison) until 1990.

Ford Mustang

In March the first Ford Mustang rolled off the production line of the Ford Motor Company, in Dearborn, Michigan, USA.