16 - British troops repel
invading Yemeni troops in Aden
22 - Israeli troops
withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
09 - Poland and Japan
resume diplomatic relations
12 - It is announced in the
USA that Borazon, a material harder than diamonds, has been made
15 - Gromyko replaces
Shepilov as Soviet Foreign Minister
06 - Israel hands over Gaza
to UN troops
06 - The colony of the Gold
Coast, now styled Ghana, becomes independent within the Commonwealth
of Nations
07 - Ghana joins the United
Nations
25 - "Treaty of Rome" is
signed by 'The Six': Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxemburg
and the Netherlands, beginning the European Economic Community (EEC),
or "Common Market"
28 - Britain frees
Archbishop Makarios
17 - New Indian Congress
movement formed by Nehru
20 - US resumes aid to
Israel
02 - Joseph McCarthy dies
of liver disease
10 - USSR asks Britain and
US to stop atom bomb tests
15 - Britain explodes a
nuclear bomb in the Central Pacific Ocean
15 - Billy Graham begins
crusade in New York
01 - First Premium Bond
prize is drawn in Britain by ERNIE
21 - Diefenbaker becomes
Canadian PM
03 - Molotov, Shepilov and
Malenkov are all pushed from power in USSR
06 - American Althea Gibson
wins Wimbledon final
07 - State of Emergency and
internment without trial are introduced in Eire
15 - Cheddi Jagan forms
government in British Guiana
31 - Malaysia becomes
independent
04 - Egypt and Syria form
economic union
15 - Christian Democrats
win German elections
21 - King Haakon VII of
Norway dies and Crown Prince Olaf is crowned King Olaf V
24 - 1,000 US Army
paratroopers are called in by President Eisenhower to ensure the
integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
26 - Dag Hammarskjöld
re-appointed UN Secretary-General
04 - Soviet space satellite
Sputnik 1 is launched
12 - Queen Elizabeth visits
Canada
29 - Cuban dictator Batista
suspends constitution
03 - The USSR launches
Sputnik 2, carrying an Eskimo dog
11 - Internal
self-government begins for Jamaica
04 - 88 people die in the
Lewisham train disaster in London, England
05 - All Dutch nationals
are expelled from Indonesia
19 - Regular London-Moscow
air service introduced
25 - Queen Elizabeth makes
her first televised Christmas broadcast
Smoking and lung
cancer are finally found to have a link "of direct cause and effect"
