Congress of Racial Equality launches campaign to force Seattle merchants to hire minorities. Martin Luther King Jr. makes only Seattle visit. Wing Luke is elected to Seattle City Council, becoming highest official of Asian descent in the U.S. Columbus Day storm batters Northwest, kills 32. Kennedy blockades Cuba in missile crisis. Jim Whittaker is first American to climb Mount Everest.
Buddhist monk sets self afire on Saigon street.
Poet Theodore Roethke dies. Evergreen Point Floating Bridge opens. Surgeon general links smoking and lung cancer. Cassius Clay knocks out Sonny Liston. Seattle Opera debuts.