Feb 10 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of Great Britain

Feb 21 F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule

Feb 01 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835

Feb 01 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts

Feb 21 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81

Feb 01 Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands first female assistant Secretary of state

Feb 10 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy of Great Britain

Feb 11 Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel

Feb 01 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television great show for it's time

Apr 07 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids 2214 Carol, 2278, 2652 Yabuuti &2806

Apr 24 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

Apr 07 The first west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight

Apr 04 KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo TX (CBS) begins broadcasting

Apr 10 "House of Wax," first 3-D movie, released (NYC)

Apr 05 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw MI (CBS) begins broadcasting

Apr 05 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

Apr 07 Dag Hammarskj”ld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary

Apr 14 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup

Apr 17 Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) HR in Wash DC's Griffith Stadium

Apr 09 "TV Guide" publishes first issue

Apr 07 J A Bruwer discovers asteroid #1660 Wood

Apr 24 British PM Winston Churchill knighted by the Queen

Apr 16 Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Nov 03 First live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)

Nov 09 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws

Nov 21 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax

Nov 20 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, first to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH)

Nov 09 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union

Nov 05 Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds

Nov 21 Skull of Piltdown Man, long believed to be the missing link, proved to be a hoax

Sep 12 Nikita Khrushchev becomes first Secretary of USSR Communist Party

Sep 10 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"

Sep 12 Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F Kennedy

Sep 17 First successful separation of Siamese twins

Sep 21 Allied forces form West Germany

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