A major education programme is launched with London Polytechnic.
The first BAIE Fellows are created.
Membership tops 1,000.
A pay pause is created to make Britain more competitive with its European rivals. It causes outrage among workers, with more than four million man hours lost to strikes in the first three months of 1962 alone.
AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories launches the first communications satellite, making international live broadcasting possible for the first time.
The Race Relations Act makes it illegal to discriminate on grounds of ethnicity by refusing housing, employment or public services.
| 1949 | £304 | (£10,860) |
| 1969 | £962 | (£16,415) |
| 1989 | £9,663 | (£25,490) |
| 2009 | £24,250 | (£31,800) |
| 2019 | £35,072 |
US President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
England brings home the World Cup, winning 4-2 in the final against West Germany.
Rupert Murdoch relaunches The Sun as a tabloid newspaper. The first issue has an exclusive interview with prime minister Harold Wilson, though the front page is an exclusive about horse doping.
Martin Luther King gives his "I have a dream" speech, Washington DC Civil Rights March
1963