** NATO HQ – Skopjie, from 2002 ( Macedonia ) – 1 out of 12 officers from 7 countries

** NATO HQ – Sarajevo, from 2004 ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) – 20 out of 81 officers from 16 countries

** NATO Training Mission – Iraq, from 2004 ( Iraq ) – 82 out of 169 soldiers from 15 countries

** from this anti-tank missiles ( also S ): List of NATO reporting names for anti-tank missiles

** Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum-12 ( NATO upgraded )

** Aero L-39 Albatros-8 ( NATO upgraded )

** Antonov An-26 Curl-1 ( NATO upgraded )

** Let L-410 Turbolet-5 ( NATO upgraded )

** Mil Mi-17 Hip-H-10 ( NATO upgraded )

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.

** Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.

** Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Captain Scott O ' Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.

** Secretary of State Christian Herter announces that the United States will commit five nuclear submarines and eighty Polaris missiles to the defense of the NATO countries by the end of 1963.

** Matthew Ridgway, Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff ( d. 1993 )

** French President Charles De Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year.

** France formally leaves NATO.

** NATO moves its HQ from Paris to Brussels.

** Manlio Brosio resigns as NATO Secretary General.

** Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the 1st nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.

** In Brussels, Belgium, NATO celebrates its 40th anniversary.

** NATO agrees to talks with the Soviet Union on reducing the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

** Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark and current Secretary General of NATO

** The Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.

** The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.

** Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.

** STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

** NASA launches the Cassini – Huygens probe to Saturn.

** Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.

** The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.

** The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.

** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 ( James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart ) to test the lunar module.

** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.

** Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II.

** The Empire of Japan launches invasions in Hong Kong, Malaya, Manila, Singapore and the Philippines.

** NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

** Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles ( the only sounding rocket developed in Germany ).

** NASA launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary ( synchronous ) satellite.

** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission ( Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham ).

** France launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers.

** The Soviet Union successfully launches the Luna 1 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

** Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

** The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.

** United States launches navigation satellite Transit I-b.

** Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and Strelka ( the Russian for " Squirrel " and " Little Arrow "), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.

** The BBC launches the world's first regular ( then ) high-definition television service.

** The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.