Sep 29 Milton Berle Show premiers

Sep 27 Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan

Sep 05 The first privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC

Sep 04 Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel.

Jun 05 Denmark adopts a new constitution

Jun 19 Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council

Jun 02 Summit of Everest reached for the first time

Jun 17 East Berlin workers rise up to protest low wages and bad conditions. Soviet tanks mow down the strikers with machine gun fire, ending illusions that communism is a workers' paradise.

Jun 08 Panmunjon negotiators sign agreement on POWs

Jun 25 86ø F in Anchorage Alaska

Jun 18 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president

Jun 08 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113

Jun 08 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

Jun 02 Coronation of British Queen Elizabeth II

Jun 06 J Churms discovers asteroid #2025

Jun 02 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

Jun 09 About 100 die in Worcester MA tornado

Jun 13 Tim Allen (real name Tim Allen Dick) born.

Jun 02 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey

Jun 17 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary

Jun 18 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen

Jun 17 Soviet tanks deployed against rioting East Germans

Jun 13 Tim Allen (real name: Tim Allen Dick) born.

Jun 09 100 people die when a tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts.

Jun 08 Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich &Ohio

Jun 18 Australian POWs released at Panmunjon

Jun 14 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn

Dec 08 Los Angeles became the third largest city in the U.S. The City of Angels slid past Philadelphia for the distinction in a special census.

Dec 11 KTVA, Anchorage becomes Alaska's first TV station

Dec 16 The Delaware Water Gap Bridge, linking New Jersey with Pennsylvania, opens to traffic.

Dec 08 Kim Basinger actress was born

Dec 12 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane

Dec 24 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166

Dec 24 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)

Dec 07 Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires

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