06 -
Comic actor (Blackadder and Mr Bean) Rowan Atkinson is
born
18 - Government in Kenya
offers terms to Mau Mau
25 - USSR officially ends
war with Germany
05 - Mendčs-France resigns
as French Premier
08 - In the
USSR, Malenkov resigns and is succeeded by N.A. Bulganin
24 - Turkey and Iraq sign
Baghdad Pact
02 - Egypt and Syria sign defense
pact
11 - Italy, Germany and France ratify
European Pact
11 - Death of Scottish
Bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming
27 - Pakistan declares State of Emergency
28 - Israel raids Gaza
Strip in reprisal attack
31 - Chinese Communist Party purged
05 - Winston Churchill
resigns as British PM due to ill health. Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister
18 - Albert Einstein dies
05 - Official occupation
ends in West Germany
06 - Britain goes to
International Court over Falkland Islands
08 - Hiroshima victims
arrive in USA for plastic surgery
09 - West
Germany becomes a member of NATO
14 - Warsaw Pact signed by
USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary,
Poland and Romania
15 - Britain,
France, the USA and the USSR sign the Vienna Treaty restoring Austria
as an independent nation
11 - Le Mans car race crash
kills 70
15 - US and Britain sign
agreement on atomic energy
04 - British dock strike ends after a month
13 - Ruth Ellis is hanged
in Britain for murdering her lover, David Blakely. She is to be the
last woman executed in the UK
18 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California
23 - Donald Campbell breaks
water speed record at 202 mph
24 - Bulganin and Khrushchev visit East
Germany
08 - A
conference is held in Geneva to discuss peaceful uses of atomic
energy
11 - Right-wing Muslim
government takes over in Indonesia
12 - German writer Thomas
Mann dies
13 - The IRA raid training center in Berkshire, Britain
15 - Indians attempt to
enter Goa
20 - Riots in Morocco
06 - Anti-Greek riots in
Istanbul and Izmir
19 - Juan Perón resigns and
leaves Argentina
22 - Commercial
television begins in Britain
24 - US President
Eisenhower has a minor heart attack
25 - Field Marshal Harding
is appointed Governor of Cyprus
30 - Actor James Dean
crashes his Porsche 550 Spyder head-on into a Ford Tudor driven by
student Donald Turnupseed. Dean is pronounced dead on arrival at
hospital
04 - After years of World
Series disappointment the Brooklyn Dodgers finally beat the New York
Yankees for baseball's world championship
08 - In the
USA, the aircraft carrier Saratoga is launched. It is the
world's most powerful warship
23 - South Vietnam becomes
a Republic under Diem
30 - Britain's Princess
Margaret announces she will not marry Group Captain Townsend
30 - Abdication of the
Sultan of Morocco
02 - Ben-Gurion forms a
government in Israel
03 - The Cocos
Islands are transferred to Australia
05 - The new
Vienna Opera House is opened
26 - The USSR
claims to have exploded a hydrogen bomb of "unprecedented force"
26 - State of emergency
declared in Cyprus following terrorist activities by Greek-Cypriot organization
EOKA
01 - 42-year-old black
woman Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a
US bus to a white man
"Clean Air Act"
passed in Britain, in response to the 1952 smog