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

Feb 09 R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria

Feb 22 Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel"

Feb 15 Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland

Feb 06 University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)

Feb 09 -5ºF (15ºC) in Sicily

Feb 02 Coasters sign with Atlantic Records

Feb 29 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan

Feb 27 Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"

Feb 27 Female suffrage in Egypt

Feb 10 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV

Feb 09 In Montreal Gaspe prospector Wilbert Coffin, age 41, hanged at Bordeaux prison for the murder of an American hunter

Feb 14 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union

Feb 10 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA

Feb 07 Autherine Lucy, first black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled

Feb 29 Pakistan becomes an Islamic republic

Feb 05 Louise Suggs win LPGA Havana Golf Open

Feb 29 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term

Feb 14 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow

Feb 25 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference

Feb 03 Toni Sailor becomes first Olympics skier to sweep the 3 alpine events

Feb 01 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking

Feb 23 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow

Feb 08 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die

Apr 07 Arthur Hailey had a script accepted and presented just 20 days after it was submitted to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The drama, " Flight into Danger" had an unprecedented audience response. A number of years later, Arthur Hailey also wrote the best-selling novel, " Airport " which was then adapted for the popular movie by the same title.

Apr 19 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III

Apr 02 Soap operas "As the World Turns" &"Edge of Night" premieres on TV

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