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Events edit

January 11 - Orval Faubus is elected Governor of Arkansas.
February 5 - The Branch Davidians are founded after breaking away from the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
May 14 - The Warsaw Pact is established as a military alliance between eight European communist states: the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Albania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany.
June 11 - The People's Temple is founded by Jim Jones.
August 18 - Beginning of the First Sudanese Civil War.
August 28 - Emmett Till, a 14-year old African-American boy, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi and brutally lynched by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam.
September 11 - Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are acquitted for the lynching of Emmett Till by an all-white jury.
September 16 to 23 - The Revolución Libertadora: President Juan Peron of Argentina is ousted from office and exiled by a group of military officers, who establish a left-wing military junta and spend the following days purging all Peronist influence from the country.
September 20 - Phạm Văn Đồng replaces Hồ Chí Minh as Prime Minister of North Vietnam, while Hồ continues his rule as President.
October 26 - The State of Vietnam is reorganized into the Republic of South Vietnam. Ngô Đình Diệm is named president of the new republic, replacing former Chief of State Bảo Đại.
November 1 - Beginning of the Vietnam War.
November 1 - Jack Gilbert Graham blows up United Airlines Flight 629 by planting a dynamite bomb in the plane's checked luggage, causing the plane to explode over Longmont, Colorado. All 39 passengers and 5 crew are killed.
November 27 - Westboro Baptist Church is founded in Topeka, Kansas by Fred Phelps.

Births edit

Villain births edit

January 10 - Rolando Mendoza
January 28 - Nicolas Sarkozy
February 14 - Darrell Keith Rich
February 24 - Woo Bum Kon
March 2 - Shoko Asahara
March 21 - Jair Bolsonaro
March 28 - Sreten Lukić
April 1 - Terry Nichols
April 2 - Mark O. Barton
May 9 - Meles Zanawi
May 10 - Mark David Chapman
May 22 - Lam Kor-wan
May 29 - John Hinckley, Jr.
July 26 - Asif Ali Zardari
August 2 - John Battaglia
August 7 - Diane Downs
August 8 - Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour
September 6 - Zoran Vuković
September 9 - John Kricfalusi
September 12 - Clayton Fountain
October 17 - Tyrone Mitchell
October 18 - Wayne Nance
October 19 - Jean Kambanda
October 24 - Katherine Knight
November 22 - John Russell Houser
December 3 - Warren Jeffs
December 23 - Charles Lee Thornton
December 26 - Dawood Ibrahim
Unknown - Michael Stone
Unknown - Norma Bell
Unknown - Ershad Sikder
Unknown - A Wyatt Mann

Victim births edit

Janruary 8 - Patricia List
February 10 - Joel Guy Sr.
March 6 - Cyprien Ntaryamira
April 4 - John Price
April 13 - Amarjeet Johal
April 21 - Billy Gene Baulch Jr
May 15 - Brenda Sue Brown
May 16 - Jane Durrua
August 20 - Georgann Hawkins
September 6 - Sharon Gallegos
October 12 - Susan Rancourt
Unknown - Debra Johnson
Unknown - Denise Naslund

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January 11 - Rodolfo Graziani
February 3 - Vasily Blokhin
June 3 - Barbara Graham
September 15 - Eduard Strauch
December 5 - Jirō Minami

Victim deaths edit

August 28 - Emmett Till