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Events
- January - End of the Mau Mau Uprising.
- March 21 - The Sharpeville Massacre takes place.
- April 9 - South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd survives an assassination attempt in Johannesburg, after being shot three times by anti-Apartheid activist David Pratt.
- April 26 - Syngman Rhee resigns as President of South Korea.
- May 11 - Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust, is captured in Brazil by the Israeli Mossad.
- July 5 - Beginning of the Congo Crisis.
- July 12 - Communist Party of Malaya leader Chin Peng is exiled to Thailand. End of the Malayan Emergency.
- October 12 - Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated by Otoya Yamaguchi, using a wakizashi, during a political debate in Tokyo, being taped for broadcast on Japanese television.
- December 20 - The Viet Cong is established by the Communist Party of Vietnam to forment insurgency in South Vietnam.
Births
Villain births
- January 26 - Rick Ross
- February 22 - Charles Cullen
- February 29 - Richard Ramirez
- March 17 - Cameron Thor
- March 23 - Apirat Kongsompong & Colin Pitchfork
- April 25 - Art Schlichter
- April 30 - David Miscavige
- May 4 - Stephanie Lazarus
- May 18 - Michael Robert Ryan
- May 21 - Jeffrey Dahmer
- June 26 - Mauro Carlesse
- July 11 - Ariel Castro
- July 29 - Brian Peck
- August 31 - Hassan Nasrallah
- September 16 - Mel Hall
- September 19 - Yolanda Saldivar & Michael Skakel
- September 30 - George Sodini
- October 16 - Alexander Solonik & Sandra Ávila Beltrán
- November 14 - Francesco Schettino
- December 4 - Cesar Barone
- December 14 - Ebrahim Raisi
- December 24 - Charles Ng
- December 31 - John Allen Muhammed
- Unknown - Robert Kajuga
- Unknown - Fulgence Kayishema
Victim births
- January 11 - Linda Mylnarczyk
- February 4 - Margaret Ellen Fox
- February 18 - Brenda Gerow
- February 28 - Dorothy Stratten
- March 21 - Edmund Glazer (9/11 Victim)
- March 30 - Nancy Argentino
- April 29 - Maclovio Lopez Jr (9/11 Victim)
- May 12 - Trond Berntsen
- June 28 - Daniel Brandhorst (9/11 Victim)
- July 25 - Anne Marie Murphy
- August 16 - Martha Moxley
- September 6 - Nancy Lanza
- October 2 - Steven Crawford
- October 21 - Andrea Hall
- October 25 - John Phippen
- November 3 - Karen A. Kincaid (9/11 Victim)
- November 17 - Gordon Cowden
- December 18 - Karen Martin (9/11 Victim)
- Unknown - Susan Curtis
Deaths
Villain deaths
- November 2 - Otoya Yamaguchi
- November 6 - Erich Raeder
- November 9 - Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
Victim deaths
- October 12 - Inejiro Asanuma