May 03 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')

May 02 US Methodist church disallows race separation

May 07 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300

May 05 World championships of judo are first held, in Tokyo

May 11 Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV

May 05 The first runner to break the four-minute mile within the United States was Jim Bailey and he was clocked at a speedy 3:58.6 in Los Angeles, CA.

May 15 In Orleans Ontario, a Royal Canadian Air Force plane crashes into the Grey Nuns' Home for the Aged in Orleans, killing 15 people, including 11 nuns.

May 20 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll

May 16 Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China

May 05 The first runner to break the four-minute mile within the United States was Jim Bailey and he was clocked at a speedy 3 58.6 in Los Angeles, CA.

May 22 "Bob Hope Show" last airs on NBC-TV

May 20 Jordan government of Samir resigns

May 07 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett

May 23 Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers

May 25 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas

May 26 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off Rhode Island, killing 103

May 30 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

May 18 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy

May 21 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms

May 23 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Fransisco

May 04 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

May 14 2 RAR attacks communist terrorists near Sungei Siput, Malaya

May 18 Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam

May 24 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha celebrated in India

May 30 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL

May 21 US explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

Jul 20 USS Thetis Bay (CVHA 1), first helicopter assault carrier, was commissioned at San Francisco, Formerly CVE 90, Thetis Bay was converted to operate helicopters and to accommodate 1,000 Marine combat troops to be flown ashore in the vertical development tactics of amphibious assault.

Jul 26 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal Company

Jul 16 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent

Jul 26 Egypt seizes Suez Canal (soon Britian and France along with Isreal show up)

Jul 01 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on The Steve Allen Show

Jul 09 The birth of Tom Hanks, American actor

Jul 16 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR

Jul 04 US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland

Jul 20 France recognizes Tunisia's independence

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