Apr 03 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39

Apr 08 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1852 Carpenter

Apr 16 The birth of Ellen Barkin, American actress

Apr 10 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely

Apr 05 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns

Apr 01 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1852 Carpenter

Apr 14 Detroit Red Wings beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup

Apr 18 Albert Einstein developer of relativity theory, dies

Apr 25 Canadian Pacific inaugurates its new stainless steel, scenic-domed transcontinental passenger train "The Canadian" between Montreal/Toronto and Vancouver.

Nov 16 First speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D.M. Campbell)

Nov 07 Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas

Nov 09 A Sikorsky HR2S helicopter, at Windsor Locks, Conn., carried a payload of 11,050 pounds to an altitude over 12,000 feet

Nov 10 A Sikorsky HR2S helicopter, at Windsor Locks, Conn., carried 13,250 pounds to over 7,000 feet

Nov 01 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado

Nov 05 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)

Nov 03 Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands

Nov 13 The first live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba

Nov 18 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for first powered flight

Nov 11 A Sikorsky HR2S helicopter, at Windsor Locks, Conn., set a speed record of 162.7 m.p.h. over a three-kilometer course

Nov 03 Alabama woman bruised by a meteor

Nov 23 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia

Sep 10 The western series Gunsmoke debuts on CBS-TV for the first of 20 seasons (whew!).

Sep 30 James Dean actor and singer was killed in car crash

Sep 10 "Gunsmoke" premiers on CBS TV

Sep 22 Commercial TV begins in England

Sep 24 Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver

Sep 22 Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9

Sep 19 Juan Peron, president of Argentina since 1946, was deposed and exiled in a military coup,

Sep 26 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929

Jun 06 Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1

Jun 22 Off Clarenville Newfoundland, cable ships start laying new transatlantic telephone cable at Clarenville.

Jun 16 Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine Pres Juan Peron

Jun 10 The first separation of virus into component parts reported

Jun 13 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France

Jun 07 The first President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)

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