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The year saw several advances in technology and exploration. On [[June 27]] the first public demonstration of color TV was held by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images were a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system was used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington. The [[BBC]] broadcast a television transmission for the first time. By November, [[Vladimir Zworykin]] had taken out the first patent for color television. On [[November 29]], [[Bernt Balchen]], U.S. Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd|Richard Byrd]], Captain Ashley McKinley, and [[Harold June]], became the first to fly over the [[South Pole]]. Within the year, Britain, Australia and New Zealand began a joint [[British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition|Antarctic Research Expedition]], and the German airship ''[[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|Graf Zeppelin]]'' began a round-the-world flight (ended [[August 29]]). This year [[Ernst Schwarz (zoologist)|Ernst Schwarz]] describes [[Bonobo]] (''Pan paniscus'') as a different species from [[common chimpanzee]] (''Pan troglodytes''), both closely related phylogenetically to human beings.

 

==Events==

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* [[March 1]] – [[Georgi Markov]], Bulgarian dissident (d. [[1978]])

** [[Betty Carter]], African-American jazz singer (d. [[1998]])

** [[Adrienne Rich]], American poet and essayist (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jun/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|publisher=Guardian|title=Poet and pioneer|date=15 June 2002|access-date=August 14, 2021}}</ref>

* [[May 25]] – [[Beverly Sills]], American operatic soprano, director of the [[New York City Opera]] (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Anthony McCrossan|title=Books and Reading in the Lives of Notable Americans: A Biographical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9RevNyPg20C&pg=PA202|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30376-0|pages=202}}</ref>

* [[May 30]] – [[Doina Cornea]], Romanian human rights activist, professor (d. [[2018]])

* [[May 31]]

**[[Menahem Golan]], Israeli director and producer (d. [[2014]])

 

** [[Rolf Leeser]], Dutch footballer and fashion designer (d. [[2018]])

** [[Karolos Papoulias]], [[President of Greece]] (d. [[2021]])

* [[June 6]]

** [[Sunil Dutt]], Hindi film actor (d. [[2005]])

** [[Ian Sinclair]], Australian politician

** [[E. O. Wilson]], American biologist<ref>{{cite book | last = Friend | first = Tim | title = The third domain : the untold story of archaea and the future of biotechnology | publisher = Joseph Henry Press | location = Washington, D.C | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780309102377 |page=3}}</ref> (d. [[2021]])

* [[June 12]] – [[Anne Frank]], German-born diarist, Holocaust victim (d. [[1945]])<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC - The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne's Timeline |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/annefrank/timeline.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=25 June 2020}}</ref>

* [[June 13]] – [[Kurt Equiluz]], Austrian opera singer (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Equiluz-Kurt.htm|title=Kurt Equiluz (Tenor) - Short Biography|website=www.bach-cantatas.com}}</ref>

* [[June 18]] – [[Jürgen Habermas]], German sociologist and philosopher<ref>{{cite book | last = Kuper | first = Adam | title = The social science encyclopedia | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780415108294 |page=353}}</ref>

* [[June 21]] – [[Ramón Luis Rivera]], Puerto Rican politician

** [[Katherine Helmond]], American actress (d. [[2019]])

** [[Thérèse Quentin]], French actress (d. [[2015]])

* [[July 7]] – [[Sergio Romano (writer)|Sergio Romano]], Italian writer, journalist, and historian

* [[July 9]]

** [[Elon Lages Lima]], Brazilian mathematician (d. [[2017]])

** [[A V Swamy]], Indian politician (d. [[2019]])

* [[July 19]]

** [[Ronald Melzack]], Canadian physiologist and professor (d. [[2019]])

** [[Orville Turnquest]], Bahamian politician

** [[Jack Higgins]], British novelist (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Ripley|first=Mike|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/10/jack-higgins-obituary|title=Jack Higgins obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 April 2022|access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref>

* [[July 28]] – [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1994]])<ref>Pottker, Jan (2002). ''Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis''. [[St. Martin's Griffin]]. {{ISBN|978-0-312-30281-8}}. Page 64</ref>

 

===August===

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** [[Ronnie Biggs]], British criminal (d. [[2013]])

** [[Luis García Meza]], 57th president of Bolivia (d. [[2018]])

* [[August 17]] – [[Francis Gary Powers]], American [[Lockheed U-2|U-2 spy plane]] pilot (d. [[1977]])

* [[August 21]] – [[Ahmed Kathrada]], South African politician, political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist (d. [[2017]])

* [[August 23]]

** [[Zoltán Czibor]], Hungarian footballer (d. [[1997]])

** [[Peter Thomson (golfer)|Peter Thomson]], Australian golfer (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Peter Thomson obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jun/20/peter-thomson-obituary |access-date=20 June 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |first=Peter |last=Mason |date=20 June 2018}}</ref>

 

===September===

** [[Ronnie Barker]], English actor, comedian and writer (d. [[2005]])

* [[September 28]]

* [[September 29]] – [[Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti]], Italian academic, poet (d. [[2017]])

* [[September 30]] – [[Mir Hazar Khan Khoso]], Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. [[2021]])

** [[Patsy Elsener]], American diver (d. [[2019]])

** [[Lev Yashin]], Russian footballer (d. [[1990]])

* [[October 25]] – [[Claude Rouer]], French Olympic road cyclist (d. [[2021]])

* [[October 28]] – [[Joan Plowright]], English actress

* [[October 29]] – [[Yevgeny Primakov]], Russian politician, diplomat (d. [[2015]])

* [[December 20]]

** [[Selim Hoss]], 3-time prime minister of Lebanon

* [[December 22]] – [[Wazir Mohammad]] Indian-Pakistani cricketer

* [[December 23]]

** [[Chet Baker]], American jazz musician (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite web|last=Pareles |first=Jon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/14/obituaries/chet-baker-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-59-in-a-fall.html |title=Chet Baker, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 59 in a Fall |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 14, 1988 |access-date=March 25, 2016}}</ref>

** [[Monique Watteau]], Belgian writer and artist

* [[December 26]]

** [[Kathleen Crowley]], American actress (d. [[2017]])

** [[Taarak Mehta]], Indian playwright and humorist (d. [[2017]])

* [[December 27]] – [[Tommy Rall]], American actor and dancer (d. [[2020]])

* [[December 28]] – [[Efraín Goldenberg]], Peruvian politician, finance minister and foreign relations minister

 

==Deaths==

 

===January===

* [[January 15]] – [[William Boyd Dawkins|Sir William Dawkins]], British geologist and archaeologist (b. [[1837]])

* [[January 24]] – [[Wilfred Baddeley]], English tennis player (b. [[1872]])

* [[January 30]]

** [[Franklin J. Drake]], American admiral (b. [[1846]])

**[[Adolph Coors]], German-American brewer (b. [[1847]])<ref>[http://www.coastalvirginiamag.com/January-2015/Strange-Brew/ Rich Griset, "Strange Brew"], ''Coastal Virginia Magazine'', January 2015</ref>

**[[Cecil Burney|Sir Cecil Burney]], British admiral of the fleet (b. [[1858]])

* [[June 8]] – [[Bliss Carman]], Canadian poet (b. [[1861]])

* [[June 11]] – [[William D. Boyce]], American entrepreneur, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. [[1858]])