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| 07 - General Dwight D
Eisenhower says he will run for US President |
| 18 - Anti-British riots in
Egypt |
| 22 - The de Havilland Comet
gains the world's first certificate of airworthiness to be awarded to
a jet airliner and goes into freight service the same month |
| 24 - Over 40 Egyptians are
killed by British soldiers in riots in Suez Canal Zone |
| 03 - 283 people die as
gale-force winds and high tides cause major floods on the east coast
of Kent in southern England. Thousands are left homeless |
| 06 - King George VI dies in
his sleep at Sandringham, aged 56 |
| 08 - Princess Elizabeth is
pronounced Queen on her return from Kenya |
| 15 - Funeral of King George
VI |
| 20 - NATO meeting agrees to
recruit Morocco and Tunisia |
| 21 - Identity cards are
abolished in Britain |
| 29 - In France, Edgar Faure
quits office after 40 days and Paul Reynaud becomes premier |
| 01 - Pandit Nehru wins
India's first national elections |
| 02 - US Supreme Court rules
that subversives can be barred from teaching in public schools |
| 04 - Chinese accuse USA of
germ warfare in Korea |
| 07 - Birth of West Indian
cricketer Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (Viv Richards) |
| 11 - British author Douglas
Adams is born |
| 18 - Birth of Irish
champion jockey, Pat Eddery |
| 21 - Dr Nkrumah of Ghana is
elected 1st African Premier |
| 22 - Tornadoes hit 5 US
states killing 200 |
| 29 - President Truman pulls out of
the US presidential race |
| 15 - Truman signs the peace
treaty that officially ends the Pacific war |
| 21 - Death of British
statesman Sir Stafford Cripps |
| 28 - Eisenhower retires as
Supreme Allied Commander |
| 02 - The de Havilland Comet
goes into service as the world's first passenger jet with a flight
from London to Johannesburg |
| 06 - Death of the nursery
education pioneer Dr Maria Montessori |
| 13 - Pandit Nehru forms
government in India |
| 15 - The diary of Anne
Frank is published |
| 23 - US Air Force bombs
hydro-electric plants in North Korea |
| 06 - Last London tram runs |
| 07 - American Liner
United States makes fastest Atlantic crossing on her maiden
voyage |
| 11 - Eisenhower wins the
Republican nomination with Richard Nixon as running mate |
| 19 - XVth Olympic Games
open at Helsinki, Finland |
| 23 - General Neguib seizes
power in Egypt |
| 24 - US steel strike ends
with pay rise |
| 25 - European Coal and
Steel Community inaugurated |
| 26 - King Farouk of Egypt abdicates
in favor of his nine month old son |
| 26 - Eva Peron of Argentina
dies |
| 05 - Japan and China resume
diplomatic relations |
| 11 - Hussein becomes
King of Jordan due to his father's mental illness |
| 14 - Rakosi is new Prime
Minister in Hungary |
| 16 - Rivers burst their
banks, devastating the UK resort of Lynmouth and killing 31 people |
| 17 - Chinese delegation
under Chou En-lai arrives in USSR |
| 02 - US tennis player Jimmy Connors born |
| 06 - Seconds after breaking
the sound barrier, a jet aircraft falls apart over the spectators at
the Farnborough Air show in England, killing 26 |
| 18 - Finland pays final war
reparations to USSR |
| 19 - US withholds Charlie
Chaplin's entry visa, pending allegations of communist activities |
| 24 - Richard Nixon weeps on
US television after denying he has embezzled Republican Party funds |
| 29 - John Cobb, land speed
record holder, is killed on Loch Ness |
| 03 - Britain explodes
her first atomic bomb in Monte Bello islands |
| 04 - Soviet Communist Party
holds first Congress since 1939 |
| 08 - Harrow rail disaster
in England. 112 people are killed and 200 injured when three trains
collide |
| 20 - State of emergency is
declared in
Kenya following Mau Mau attacks |
| 22 - Iran breaks off
diplomatic relations with Britain |
| 02 - Christopher Craig and
Derek Bentley bungle a robbery in London and a policeman is murdered |
| 04 - Dwight D Eisenhower is
elected as 34th President of the USA |
| 06 - First hydrogen bomb is
exploded by USA at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean |
| 09 - 17 Africans and 2
Europeans, including an Irish nun, are killed in rioting in South
Africa |
| 14 - NME publishes
first singles chart in the UK. The number one record is Here In My
Heart by Al Martino |
| 18 - Jomo Kenyatta is
charged in Kenya as head of Mau Mau |
| 25 - Agatha Christie's
long-running play
The Mousetrap opens in London |
| 30 - The US test the first
hydrogen bomb on Elugelab in the Pacific |
| London smog kills over 2,000
people |
| 05 - Eisenhower visits the
Korean war |
| 07 - Riots in French
Morocco |
| 08 - Itzhak Ben-Zivi
becomes President of Israel |
| 10 - Albert Schweitzer wins
the Nobel Peace Prize |
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Nov 04 - Eisenhower is
elected as 34th President
 Miniature hearing
aid developed by Sonotone Corporation
Introduction of car
safety belts, manufactured in the US
Sony launch pocket-sized
transistor radios
Over 4,000 people are
killed by smog in London. A further 8,000 deaths from respiratory disease
are also linked to the smog
The first Holiday Inn
opens, on US Highway 70 in Memphis |
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