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11 - British Comet jet airliner falls into Mediterranean
21 - First US nuclear submarine - USS Nautilus - is launched
24 - New coalition in Israel is formed by Moshe Sharett

12 - British government announces that research has revealed a possible link between smoking and lung cancer
18 - US actor John Travolta born
25 - US Senator Joseph McCarthy is censured by President Eisenhower for his bullying tactics
25 - Nasser takes temporary control in Egypt

01 - The USA explodes a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. The blast is equivalent to 12 million tons of TNT (600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb) and Japanese fishermen who see the explosion from 70 miles away think the sun is rising . . .
08 - US and Japan sign mutual defense pact
12 - British arrest 700 Mau Mau activists in Kenya
31 - The USSR offers to join NATO

18 - After seizing full control, Colonel Nasser becomes prime minister and military governor of Egypt
21 - The US Air Force flies a French battalion to Vietnam to defend that country against the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam
27 - Georgi Malenkov becomes premier of the USSR

06 - British athlete Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile, in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds
07 - Dien Bien Phu falls to the Vietminh (Communists)
08 - France proposes Vietnam truce
13 - President Eisenhower signs St Lawrence Seaway Bill
15 - Queen Elizabeth and Philip start a Commonwealth tour
17 - US Supreme Court outlaws racial segregation in schools

18 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes French Premier
27 - The first atomic power station is opened at Obninsk, near Moscow

02 - End of food rationing in Britain
15 - The Boeing 367-80 (later developed as the 707) makes its maiden flight
17 - Theodor Heuss is new President of West Germany
20 - An armistice in Indo-China is signed. Vietnam is divided; the north under Communist rule, and the south supported by Great Britain and the USA

03 - The first VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft is flown in Britain. It is nicknamed 'The Flying Bedstead'
25 - British singer/songwriter Elvis Costello is born Declan MacManus

08 - South East Asia Defense Treaty (SEATO) is signed to prevent the spread of Communism through South East Asia
09 - Algerian earthquake kills 1,500
15 - All China People's Congress held in Peking

08 - Hanoi taken by Communist troops

03 - Outbreak of terrorism in Algiers
03 - French painter Henri Matisse dies
05 - Burma and Japan sign peace treaty
17 - Nasser becomes official Head of State in Egypt

01 - US signs pact with Nationalist China
02 - US Senate votes to condemn Joseph McCarthy for conduct unbecoming of a Senator and for abuse of Select Committee privileges
14 - Disturbances and riots in Cyprus and Greece over the ENOSIS (union with Greece) issue
21 - Birth of US tennis player Chris Evert
23 - 20,000 French troops sent to Algeria

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Jul 02 - End of food
rationing in Britain

  The Moonies (Unification Church) is founded by Korean Reverend Sun Myung Moon

American evangelist Billy Graham preaches for 72 consecutive nights on his British tour, culminating in 120,000 people flocking to Wembley Stadium

Ten thousand West Indians arrive in Britain looking for a better life

A new Morris Minor costs £439 10s 0d