Aug 30 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas

Aug 23 The first non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight begins.

Aug 24 The first non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC

Aug 20 Republicans convene at Cow Palace

Aug 16 Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate

Aug 22 Pres Eisenhower and VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF

Aug 03 Willie Williams of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.1

Aug 04 First motorcycle driven over 200 mph

Aug 23 Soviet Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the U.S. during a performance in New York City.

Aug 08 Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium

Aug 11 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"

Sep 07 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+

Sep 01 Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory

Sep 08 Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 &stays #1 for 31 weeks

Sep 25 First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation

Sep 02 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service

Sep 02 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)

Sep 10 Louisville Ky public schools integrate

Sep 09 Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show, drawing a TV audience estimated at over 50 million.

Sep 05 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM

Sep 14 First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC

Sep 26 Linda Hamilton, actress (Beauty and the Beast, Terminator) born

Feb 23 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin

Feb 06 French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers

Feb 28 A Chatham Ontario restaurant is fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students

Feb 16 Britain abolishes the death penalty

Feb 26 Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge

Feb 14 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference

Feb 05 New York Mayor Robert Wagner &Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30 million

Feb 05 7th Winter Olympics games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

Feb 16 Britain abolishes the death penalty

Feb 28 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory

Feb 28 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA

Feb 06 Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing

Feb 11 Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow

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