Jun 26 Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives

Jun 27 In the USSR (Russia) a quake resulted in 1,200 dead no more details (national security?)

Jun 22 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system

Jun 03 Howard Cosell's first TV show

Jun 11 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo

Jun 17 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)

Jun 05 NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes

Jun 10 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM

Jun 04 First commercial coal pipeline placed in operation

Jun 09 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM

Jun 12 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)

Jun 15 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)

Jun 23 S B Nicholson discovers asteroid #1647 Menelaus

Jun 27 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La &Tx

Jun 10 John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada with the biggest majority to date

Dec 04 First edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published

Dec 29 Singers Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme wed in Las Vegas

Dec 28 The two-millionth Volkswagen was finished on this day in 1957

Dec 06 The first US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up

Dec 29 Entertainers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are married in Las Vegas.

Dec 19 "The Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway

Dec 17 The Atlas U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile makes its inaugural test flight.

Dec 04 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)

Dec 18 Shippingport Atomic Power Station, first nuke plant to generate electricity

Dec 18 The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, goes online.

Dec 02 The First full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Pa

Dec 05 NYC becomes first city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)

Dec 06 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)

Dec 20 The birth of Bo Derek, American actress

Dec 11 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra

Dec 12 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)

Aug 20 USAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)

Aug 31 Malaya (Malaysia) gains independence from Britain

Aug 05 "American Bandstand," goes on network TV (ABC)

Aug 01 First commercial building heated by Sun - in Albuquerque New Mexico

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