| 01 - The dictator of Cuba,
Batista, is overthrown and flees to the Dominican Republic |
| 02 - Fidel Castro proclaims
a new government in Cuba |
| 02 - The USSR launches
lunar rocket Luna 1 |
| 03 - Alaska becomes 49th
state of USA |
| 04 - Rioting in Belgian
Congo |
| 17 - Senegal and French
Sudan unite to form Mali |
| 21 - American film director
Cecil B de Mille dies in California |
| 01 - Swiss referendum turns
down votes for women |
| 03 - American singers
Buddy Holly and
Ritchie Valens die in a plane crash in Iowa, USA |
| 09 - US supplies arms to
Indonesia |
| 16 - US tennis player John
'Superbrat' McEnroe is born |
| 19 - Prince Andrew is born
in Britain. The first birth to a reigning monarch since 1857 |
| 21 - British PM Macmillan
and Selwyn Lloyd visit USSR |
| 23 - European Court of
Human Rights has first meeting |
| 26 - State of Emergency
declared in Southern Rhodesia |
| 01 - Archbishop Makarios
returns to Cyprus |
| 16 - Iraq receives loan
from USSR |
| 17 - Dalai Lama flees to
India |
| 24 - Iraq pulls out of
Baghdad Pact |
| 26 - American author
Raymond Chandler dies |
| 28 - Mau Mau prisoners die
at Hola Camp in Kenya |
| 28 - Two monkeys return
alive from US space trip |
| 07 - Oklahoma repeals
prohibition after 51 years, leaving Mississippi the only "dry" state
in the US |
| 17 - Malaya and Indonesia
sign friendship pact |
| 26 - Cuba invades Panama |
| 06 - UK protests to Iceland
about violence in 'cod war' |
| 25 - Khrushchev
visits
Albania |
| 03 - Self government for
Singapore |
| 04 - American sugar mills
in Cuba nationalized |
| 17 - De Valera becomes
President of Eire |
| 26 - The St Lawrence Seaway
in Canada is opened by Queen Elizabeth II and President
Eisenhower |
| 06 - The Saar becomes part
of West Germany |
| 25 - First hovercraft crossing of
English Channel. The British craft crosses in two hours |
| 21 - Hawaii becomes the
50th state of the USA |
| 18 - Khrushchev addresses
United Nations on disarmament |
| 22 - UN refuse to admit
Communist China |
| 25 - Khrushchev
visits
China |
| 25 - Prime Minister
Bandaranaike of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) is assassinated |
| 04 - Soviet lunar satellite
Luna 3 photographs the Moon |
| 02 - First section of the M1
(London - Birmingham motorway) is opened |
| 10 - United Nations
condemns apartheid and racism |
| 17 - De Beers diamond firm
in South Africa announces that synthetic diamonds have been made |
| 20/29 - The European Free
Trade Association (EFTA) is set up, consisting of Great Britain,
Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden |
| 09 - Britain resumes
relations with United Arab Republic |
| 10 - US begins to pull
troops out of Iceland |
| 13 - UN say they will not
intervene in Algerian problem |
| 14 - Makarios elected first
President of Cyprus |
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