home in Brentwood, Los Angeles; it is officially ruled a "probable suicide" (the exact cause has been disputed). Nelson Mandela is arrested by the South African government near Howick, and charged with incitement to rebellion. August 6 – Jamaica becomes independent. August 15 – The New York Agreement is signed, trading the West New Guinea colony to Indonesia. August 16 – Algeria joins the Arab League. August 17 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. August 18 – Norway launches its 1st sounding rocket, Ferdinand 1 from Andøya Space Center and becomes a space nation. August 22 – An assassination attempt is made against French President Charles de Gaulle. August 24 A group of armed Cuban exile terrorists fire at a hotel in Havana from a speedboat. Indonesia officially launched television with the establishment of TVRI television network or Televisi Republik Indonesia (Indonesian National Channel) August 27 – NASA launches the Mariner 2 space probe. August 31 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent. September September 1 A referendum in Singapore supports the Malayan Federation. Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and injuring more than 600. September 2 – The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba. September 8 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution. September 12 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. September 19 – Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time in Wales, marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement. September 21 – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting. September 22 – Bob Dylan premieres his song "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", at Carnegie Hall in New York City. September 25 – Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson two minutes into the first round of his fight, for the boxing world title in Chicago. September 26 – The North Yemen Civil War erupts. September 27 – A flash flood in Barcelona, Spain, kills more than 440 people. September 29 – The Canadian Alouette 1, the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union, is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. October October 3 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 8 – Walter Schirra orbits