Feb 02 The first Presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC

Feb 27 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open

Feb 19 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect

Feb 26 The first aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith

Feb 08 Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him

Feb 18 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance

Feb 26 "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances

Feb 13 Israel acquires four of seven known Dead Sea scrolls

Feb 08 John Grisham author of A Time to Kill, The Firm and other was born

Feb 23 Edgar Faure forms French government

Feb 12 President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam

Feb 09 US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO

Feb 13 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls

Feb 22 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail

Feb 24 The birth of Alain Prost, French Formula 1 racing driver

Feb 15 Pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced

Feb 12 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 &stays #1 for 10 weeks

Feb 09 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law

Feb 12 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan

Feb 01 H C Hansen appointed premier of Denmark

Apr 02 Halifax Nova Scotia the opening of Angus L. Macdonald Bridge linking Halifax and Dartmouth and I was there

Apr 30 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced

Apr 24 " X-Minus One", a show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC radio this day.

Apr 22 Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"

Apr 19 USS Albany and USS William Wood begin to provide disaster relief to citizens of Volos, Greece, ending 21 April

Apr 03 Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics)

Apr 05 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him

Apr 13 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)

Apr 15 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants

Apr 03 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open

Apr 30 Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks

Apr 12 Salk polio vaccine safe and effective;

Apr 04 British government signs military treaty with Iraq

Apr 03 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300

Apr 22 Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"

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