May 15 USSR launches Sputnik III

May 13 Jordan & Iraq form the Arab Federation

May 24 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion

May 24 United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service

May 26 The HSS-1N helicopter, capable of day and night antisubmarine warfare under instrument flight conditions, was publicly flown at NAS Corpus Christi

May 19 "South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to #1 &stays #1 for 31 weeks

May 12 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40

May 01 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina

May 04 Canadian comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster make their first of a record 67 appearances on TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

Jan 26 Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"

Jan 31 America launches its first satellite, Explorer I, from Cape Canaverel

Jan 31 James van Allen discovers radiation belt

Jan 20 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice.

Jan 14 Qantas begins round-world service with two Super Constellation aircraft.

Jan 01 Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White

Jan 23 Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies

Jan 01 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation

Jan 27 Ferenc Münnich follows Kádár as premier of Hungary

Jan 03 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland

Jan 18 The first black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)

Jan 08 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

Jan 26 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan as Israeli minister of Defense

Jan 27 Ferenc Münnich follows Kádár as premier of Hungary

Jan 29 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming

Jan 06 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar

Jan 31 James van Allen discovers radiation belt

Jan 08 Bobby Fisher wins the U.S. Chess Championship at age 14.

Jan 31 In Ottawa Ontario James Gladstone takes his seat as Canada's first native Senator; Alberta Blood Indian is appointed by the Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.

Jan 28 Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck

Jan 31 US launches their first artificial satellite, Explorer 1

Jan 29 Paul Newman &Joanne Woodward wed

Jan 29 Movie actor Paul Newman and actress Joanne Woodward are married.

Jan 31 The U.S. enters the space race with the successful launch of the Explorer One satellite.

Jan 04 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up

Jan 28 Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor

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