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| 01 - West German forces
join NATO |
| 03 - West Indian Federation
formed |
| 13 - The American newspaper
Daily Worker ceases publication |
| 31 - The USA launches
Explorer 1, its first space satellite |
| 01 - Egypt and Syria form
the United Arab Republic |
| 03 - Benelux economic pact
signed |
| 06 - Munich air crash kills 23,
including eight Manchester United players. 21 passengers survive,
including Matt Busby (MUFC Manager) and Bobby Charlton |
| 11 - French warships no
longer permitted to use Bizerta, Tunis |
| 17 - Campaign For Nuclear
Disarmament (CND) launched |
| 19 - Anglo-Spanish trade
agreement |
| 02 - Vivien Fuchs completes
first overland crossing of Antarctica |
| 04 - The US nuclear
submarine Nautilus travels under the North Polar ice-cap |
| 07 - British comedy actor
Rik Mayall (The Young Ones,
Comic Strip Presents etc) is born |
| 11 - Unemployment in the
USA reaches 5,200,000 |
| 14 - British suffragette
Christabel Pankhurst dies |
| 21 - China and Hungary sign
economic treaty |
| 25 - US Boxer Sugar Ray
Robinson wins world middleweight title for fifth time by beating
Carmen Basilio in Chicago |
| 26 - The first parking
tickets are issued by new 'Traffic Wardens' in England |
| 27 - Khrushchev
becomes
chairman of the Council of Ministers in the USSR |
| 02 - US embargoes arms
shipments to Cuba |
| 05 - Castro begins 'total
war' against Cuban dictator Batista |
| 17 - Nationalists win big
victory in South African elections |
| 02 - State of Emergency
declared in Aden |
| 03 - President Eisenhower
proposes demilitarized Antarctic |
| 13 - Rioting by French
settlers in Algeria leads to the French army seizing power |
| 27 - State of Emergency
declared in Sri Lanka |
| 29 - General de Gaulle is
voted into power in France |
| 01 - Iceland extends
fishing limit to 12 miles |
| 17 - Hungarian ex-PM Imre
Nagy executed after secret trial |
| 10 - The first parking
meters are installed in London. There are 625 in all. Two hours
parking costs sixpence(2½p) and a further two hours, 10 shillings
(50p) |
| 14 - In Iraq, King Faisal
II is assassinated. The country is proclaimed a republic under Abdul
Kassem |
| 24 - The first Life
Peerages are announced in Britain |
| 26 - Prince Charles becomes
Prince of Wales |
| 31 - Khrushchev
visits
Britain |
| 09 - US reaffirms refusal
to recognize Red China |
| 16 - US singer
Madonna
Louise Ciccone is born |
| 27 - The USSR launches
Sputnik 3, carrying two dogs |
| 29 - US pop musician
Michael Jackson is born |
| 03 - Verwoerd becomes South
African Premier |
| 05 - Martin Luther King
arrested for loitering in Alabama |
| 04 - The improved de
Havilland Comet 4 inaugurates the world's first transatlantic jet
passenger service |
| 09 - Pope Pius XII dies |
| 09 - Yankees defeat Braves
in the US to win World Series |
| 24 - Ayub Khan forms
Cabinet in Pakistan |
| 26 - The Boeing 707 goes
into transatlantic service |
| 28 - Cardinal Roncalli is
elected as Pope John XXIII |
| 02 - Last British troops
leave Jordan |
| 03 - Indonesia nationalizes
Dutch businesses |
| 05 - Britain's first
stretch of motorway, the Preston Bypass, is opened |
| 12 - General Galan
appointed Inspector-General in Algiers |
| 16 - NATO rejects Soviet
proposals for Berlin |
| 21 - Charles de Gaulle is
elected president of the French Fifth Republic |
| 22 - British trade pact
with Egypt |
| 31 - Amnesty declared in
Lebanon |
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The first stereo disc
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