Jun 27 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)

Jun 09 100ø F-Hottest day in Seattle Washington

Jun 23 Walt Disney's "Lady &the Tramp" released

Jun 07 "The $64,000 Question" premiers on CBS TV

Dec 01 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress during segragation, refuses to give her bus seat to a white man, an event that sparked the Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott, one of the critical events in the U.S. civil rights fight.

Dec 06 New York psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing

Dec 14 Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Rumania, and Spain all join the United Nations.

Dec 29 Barbra Streisand's first recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13

Dec 01 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to back of the bus

Dec 05 The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous trade unions in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, is formed

Dec 17 Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes. Less than 48 hours later, he recorded it at the Sun Studios in Memphis.

Dec 06 The Federal government standardized the size of license plates throughout the U.S. Previously, individual states had designed their own license plates, resulting in wide variations.

Dec 01 The first remote-control railroad passenger car went into service on this day

Dec 12 Hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell

Aug 08 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy

Aug 20 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria

Aug 13 The opening of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia mainland

Aug 16 Fiat Motors orders first private atomic reactor

Aug 20 First airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca

Aug 03 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days

Aug 19 Hurricane Diane kills 200 and is the first billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)

Aug 03 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing

Aug 31 The first microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)

Aug 31 The birth of Ed Moses, American track athlete

Aug 12 Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from $0.75 to $1 an hour

Aug 31 The first sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill

Aug 17 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 &doing $1.8 billion damage

Oct 01 "Honeymooners" premieres

Oct 03 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres

Oct 02 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers on Television

Oct 04 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul

Oct 20 Day-O is released by Harry Belafonte. It was later renamed to The Banana Boat Song.

Oct 18 Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athlete

Oct 03 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea

Oct 10 The carrier Saipan with Helicopter Training Unit HTU-1 aboard, left Tampico, Mexico, after a week of disaster relief operations for the inhabitants of the area. During these operations, the helicopters rescued 5,439 people

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