Jan 04 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville

Jan 21 The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear powered submarine, is launched

Jan 30 In Liverpool, Nova Scotia a freak winter tornado touches down near Liverpool.

Jan 08 President Dwight Eisenhower proposes that convicted Communists lose their U.S. citizenship.

Jan 17 Jacques Cousteau's first network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)

Jan 09 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)

Jan 20 -70ºF (-57ºC), Rogers Pass, Montana (state 48 record)

Jan 11 A two ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche - 10 die (Austria)

Jan 04 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres

Jan 18 Fanfani forms Italian government

Jan 30 Italy's Fanfani government resigns

Jan 04 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville

Jan 08 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his first two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"

Jan 01 Rose & Cotton Bowl are first sport colorcasts

Jan 01 Rose & Cotton Bowl are first sport colorcasts

Jan 01 Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism

Jan 20 Dmitri Shostakovich's "Concertino opus 94" premieres

Jan 26 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland

Jan 12 Queen Elizabeth II opens New Zealand parliament

Jan 14 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio

Jan 14 Marilyn Monroe weds former NY Yankees slugger, Joe DiMaggio.

Jan 23 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP

Jan 08 First Alberta crude oil reaches Ontario through pipeline from Edmonton.

Jan 21 The USS Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine, is launched from the shipyards at Groton, Connecticut.

Jan 30 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR

Feb 01 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire

Feb 11 6th Emmy Awards I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden win

Feb 26 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records

Feb 02 President Eisenhower reports detonation of first H-bomb (done in 1952)

Feb 09 Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy

Feb 23 Pittsburgh begins the first mass inoculation of children against polio in the US, using the vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk.

Feb 18 The birth of John Travolta, American actor

Feb 10 Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy Great Britain

Feb 05 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams MA (ABC) begins broadcasting

Feb 15 The birth of Matt Groening, American cartoonist.

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