January 24 - Teenage star Danny Peppermint[?] is nearly killed when he is electrocuted by a microphone stand at the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Peppermint is rushed to a hospital where he recovers.
April 12 - A recording is made of Bob Dylan's concert at the Town Hall, in New York City by Columbia Records. Columbia would eventually release the recording of "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" from this concert
... around Arabia to Egypt
Ernest Shackleton, (1874-1922), attempted to reach the South Pole and came further south than anyone before him
John Hanning Speke, (1827-1864), ...