Sep 02 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20

Sep 26 Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay Japan, killing over 1,600

Sep 27 Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premiers

Sep 04 Peter B Cortese of the US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania

Sep 08 SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) formed to stop communist spread in SE Asia

Jun 04 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m

Jun 22 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands

Jun 29 Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer

Jun 27 The first atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)

Jun 14 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge

Jun 10 PBS reaches SF KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting

Jun 07 First microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)

Jun 10 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting

Jun 14 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an order adding the words quot;under Godquot; to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Jun 30 USSR opens its first atomic power plant

Jun 27 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala

Jun 19 The birth of Kathleen Turner, American film actress

Jun 17 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends

Jun 09 Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings

Dec 17 fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary IN)

Dec 15 Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter was featured on Walt Disney’s TV series for the first time. Crockett was played by Fess Parker.

Dec 15 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands

Dec 29 Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being

Dec 24 Laos gains its independence

Dec 11 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va

Dec 02 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-WI) for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute"

Dec 17 British Petroleum Company (BP) formed

Aug 19 Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN

Aug 31 Census Bureau established

Aug 24 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China

Aug 31 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die

Aug 18 Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became first black to attend cabinet

Aug 11 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh

Aug 16 Sports Illustrated publishes it's first issue

Aug 24 Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism

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