Apr 14 Ampex Corp demonstrates first commercial videotape recorder

Apr 07 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco

Apr 17 USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves

Apr 23 Project Vanguard, earth satellite launching program, assigned to DCNO (Air)

Apr 18 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)

Apr 03 German war criminals Hinrichsen/R�hl/Siebens/Viebahn are freed

Apr 11 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites

Apr 03 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances

Apr 03 Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated

Apr 04 Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden", premieres in London

Apr 27 Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing

Apr 25 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1

Apr 17 Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament

Apr 12 The birth of Andy Garcia, American actor

Apr 26 Edward Arnold actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66

Nov 08 UN demands USSR leave Hungary

Nov 12 Morocco, Sudan, and Tunista join the United Nations.

Nov 01 Delhi becomes a territory of the Indian union

Nov 02 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion

Nov 02 Israel captures Gaza and Sheham

Nov 01 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed

Nov 12 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, first sighted

Nov 06 President Eisenhower (D) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (R)

Nov 05 Britain & France land forces in Egypt

Nov 01 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact

Nov 13 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses

Nov 04 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest

Nov 04 Israel captures Straits of Tiran from Egypt

Nov 03 "Wizard of Oz" first televised (CBS-TV)

Nov 06 Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary

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

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