The Thread of Random Internetz

September 14 - Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC.

September 22 - Mali, sole remaining member of the Mali Federation following the withdrawal of Senegal a month earlier, declares full independence as the Republic of Mali.

September 26 - The 2 leading U.S. presidential candidates, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy, participate in the first televised presidential debate.

October 1 - Nigeria gains independence; Nnamdi Azikiwe is the first native Governor General.

October 3 - Jânio Quadros is elected president of Brazil for a 5-year term.

October 5 - White South Africans vote to make the country a republic.

October 12 - Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a United Nations General Assembly meeting, to protest at the discussion of Soviet Union policy toward Eastern Europe.

October 12 - Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party.

October 14 - U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.

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