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| 01 - The Maldive Islands
become a republic |
| 01 - Arthur 'Bomber' Harris
is knighted in the New Year Honours list |
| 03 - Winston Churchill
visits President Eisenhower |
| 14 - Marshal Tito is
elected first President of the Yugoslav republic |
| 16 - Egypt dissolves all
political parties |
| 20 - Dwight D Eisenhower is
inaugurated as US President |
| 31 - Irish car ferry
Princess Victoria sinks with the loss of 128 lives |
| 03 - Widespread flooding in
Holland causes over 1,000 deaths |
| 03 - Hurricanes and
flooding bring disaster to Britain's East Coast with a death toll of
nearly 300 people |
| 05 - Rationing of sweets
ends in Britain |
| 05 - Walt Disney's animated
film Peter Pan is released |
| 10 - General Neguib takes
dictatorial powers in Egypt |
| 12 - Agreement on Sudan
reached by Britain and Egypt |
| 12 - USSR breaks off
relations with Israel |
| 23 - British WWII deserters
are granted amnesty |
| 28 - Crick and Watson
announce double-helix structure of DNA |
| 01 - Turkey, Greece and
Yugoslavia sign a friendship treaty |
| 05 - Josef Stalin dies of a
stroke at
the age of 73 |
| 05 - Death of Russian
composer Prokofiev |
| 06 - Malenkov succeeds
Stalin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in the USSR |
| 20 - Khrushchev becomes
Secretary of the Communist Party |
| 23 - Death of French artist
Raoul Dufy |
| 23 - The low-cost
disposable Bic ballpoint pen is launched in France. Developed by
Baron Bich, the pen costs 50 centimes |
| 24 - In Britain, Queen Mary
dies |
| 26 - Salk vaccine is
successful in tests against Polio in the US |
| 28 - Death of US athlete
Jim Thorpe |
| 31 - John Christie is
arrested and charged with murdering his wife following one of
London's biggest manhunts |
| 06 - German Chancellor
Adenauer visits New York |
| 07 - Dag Hammarskjöld of
Sweden is elected Secretary General of the UN |
| 08 - An underground train
crashes in UK killing 8 people |
| 08 - In Kenya Jomo Kenyatta
and five others are convicted of being involved with the terrorist organization
Mau Mau |
| 15 - John Christie is
charged with the murder of three more women in London. Murders for
which a man has already hung |
| 16 - The royal yacht
Britannia is launched in Britain |
| 17 - Charlie Chaplin
surrenders his re-entry permit to the US under threat of proceedings
due to alleged Communist links |
| 20 - Allied and Communist
sick and wounded POW's are swapped in Korea |
| 02 - British football
(soccer) hero Stanley Matthews wins his first FA Cup Final |
| 04 - Duke of Edinburgh
receives his pilot's wings |
| 04 - Ernest Hemingway wins
a Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea and Picnic |
| 12 - General Gruenther is
made Supreme Commander in Europe |
| 29 - Edmund Hillary and
Sherpa Norkey Tenzing conquer Mount Everest |
| 01 - Gordon Richards is the
first British jockey to be knighted |
| 02 - Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey |
| 04 - The largest atomic
explosion yet is detonated in Nevada, USA |
| 06 - Gordon Richards wins
the Derby after 28 attempts |
| 07 - Edmund Hillary and
Colonel John Hunt are knighted |
| 17 - Riots take place in
East Berlin against the Communist government |
| 18 - 18-month-old King Faud
is deposed and Egypt becomes a republic with General Neguib as president |
| 20 - Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in the USA for conspiring
to pass atomic secrets to Russia in World War II |
| 04 - International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions meets |
| 05 - Hungarian Ministry
formed by new PM Imre Nagy |
| 12 - Martial law is lifted
in East Berlin |
| 15 - British murderer John Christie is
hanged |
| 15 - Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe, premieres in New York |
| 20 - USSR and Israel
restore diplomatic relations |
| 26 - Fidel Castro is jailed
in Cuba |
| 27 - An armistice is
signed at Panmunjom, ending the Korean War |
| 20 - In Morocco the Sultan
is deposed by France |
| 20 - Iranian Prime Minister
Dr Mussadiq is arrested |
| 21 - Lobotomy is banned in
the USSR |
| 29 - The USSR explodes a
hydrogen bomb |
| 30 - Yugoslavia and Hungary
resume relations |
| 06 - Christian Democrats
win election in West Germany |
| 12 - Nikita Khrushchev
becomes first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist
party in the USSR |
| 12 - John Fitzgerald
Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island |
| 28 - Polish government
arrests Cardinal Wyszynski |
| 28 - Ford unveils its new
Anglia and Prefect models |
| 08 - Salazar wins all seats
in Portuguese elections |
| 09 - Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas dies in a New York hotel, aged 39 |
| 09 - Death of Saudi Arabian
King Abd el-Aziz III Ibn Saud |
| 12 - 'Samaritans' helpline
is founded by Reverend Chad Varah at St Stephen's church in Walbrook,
UK |
| 21 - 'Piltdown Man'
(discovered in 1912) is proved to have been a forgery by W. Le Gros
Clark and others at the British Museum |
| 27 - Death of US playwright
Eugene O'Neill |
| 30 - Iran restores
diplomatic relations with Britain |
| 04 - A large oilfield is
struck in Australia |
| 10 - Sir Winston Churchill
wins the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 23 - Lavrenty Beria, former
Soviet minister for internal affairs, and six others are executed for
high treason |
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 L Ron Hubbard
founds the Scientology movement in the USA
Blackpool beats Bolton in
the 'Stanley Matthews' Cup Final
Ian Fleming introduces James
Bond in the book Casino Royale
Christian Dior brings the
bosom back into women's clothes with the 'sweater girl' bra
Hugh Hefner launches
Playboy To combat smog
in the UK, 6½d mouth-masks can be bought from chemists
The cost of a 3 bedroom
semi-detached house in Britain is just over £2,000.00 |
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