Mar 07 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters

Mar 13 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia

Mar 17 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape

Mar 31 US Navy forms atomic sub division

Mar 03 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq

Mar 25 Sugar Ray Robinson is first boxing champion to win 5 times

Mar 03 The birth of Miranda Richardson, English actress

Mar 26 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness &Joanne Woodward win

Mar 27 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records

Mar 14 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies first gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)

Mar 25 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons

Aug 14 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99

Aug 04 Dumont TV Network crumbles

Aug 01 US first class postage up to $0.04 - was $0.03 for 26 years

Aug 23 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours

Aug 17 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec

Aug 29 Air Force Academy opens

Aug 18 TV game show scandal investigation starts

Aug 19 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters

Aug 18 Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde

Aug 21 Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America

Aug 01 US submarine USS Nautilus submerges under the Arctic ice cap

Aug 18 Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland andWales)

Aug 06 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles

Aug 03 The USS Nautilus (the first nuclear submarine) passes under the North Pole.

Aug 18 Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published

Sep 08 Oman turns over Gwadur (on Bal£chist n coast) to Pakistan

Sep 15 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)

Sep 05 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US

Sep 24 The first welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia

Sep 05 The first color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC

Sep 28 Guinea votes for independence from France

Sep 26 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup 0

Sep 20 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC

Sep 15 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ

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