October 10 – Sir John Betjeman is declared Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first knight ever to be so.[3]
"The three Marias", Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, publish in Lisbon New Portuguese Letters (Novas Cartas Portuguesas), a collection challenging the Estado Novo dictatorship, to immediate success,[4] but banned by censors as "pornographic and an offense to public morals".[5][6][7][8] Its authors are imprisoned for "abuse of freedom of the press" and "outrage to public decency".[9][10][6] Only after the 1974 "Carnation Revolution" does their trial end with the authors pardoned and the judge assigning "outstanding literary merit" to the book.[10]