Jan 01 BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7hours 57minutes

Jan 06 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar

Jan 04 Sputnik reenters atmosphere and burns up

Jan 13 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication

Jan 01 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation

Jan 13 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban

Jan 30 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in

Jan 01 European Community (later to become the European Union) is born

Jan 31 US launches their first artificial satellite, Explorer 1

Jan 10 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart

Jan 11 Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges as crusty frogman and good guy Mike Nelson, debuts on CBS-TV.

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 03 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs South Africa at Cape Town

Jan 03 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs South Africa at Cape Town

Jan 01 Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White

Jan 01 BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7hours 57minutes

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 03 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland

Jan 23 Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez flees Venezuela, Larrazábal takes power

Jan 07 USSR shrinks army to 300,000

Jan 30 The first 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX

Jan 07 USSR shrinks army to 300,000

Feb 23 Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina

Feb 01 US satellite (Explorer I) launched

Feb 02 Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic

Feb 21 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote)

Feb 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Feb 05 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as first US black foreign minister (Romania)

Feb 15 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA

Feb 08 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia

Feb 28 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket

Feb 11 Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs

Feb 14 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms

Feb 15 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones Great Britain

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