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And finally, from 1962:

* At the age of 36, Marilyn Monroe is found lying on her bed naked, dead from an apparent self-inflicted overdose of barbiturates. Due to missing evidence and conflicting testimony, the exact nature of her death is surrounded in controversy, and leads to many questions including her relationship with the Kennedy family and Bobby Kennedy in particular.
* "West Side Story" wins 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Direction, and two Supporting Actor Oscars.
* The Milwaukee Braves' "Hammering" Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run.
* Stanley Kubrick's controversial film "Lolita" opens (four years after the book was published).
* The James Bond series starts with "Dr. No" (and has gone on for 40 years and 20 films, to date)
* 18 year-old bricklayer's apprentice Peter Fechter is shot while trying to escape East Berlin over the Berlin Wall, erected almost exactly one year before. At the base of the wall in no-man's-land, he lay bleeding to death and crying for help for a full 50 minutes before dying. He becomes the 50th victim of the wall.