Apr 20 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM

Apr 02 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)

Apr 03 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana

Apr 24 Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2

Apr 28 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

Apr 03 "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances

Apr 20 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup

Apr 02 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA

Apr 28 Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America

Apr 06 Arnold Palmer wins first major golf tournament-the Masters

Apr 02 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA

Apr 02 Last load of bitumen on Pacific Highway between Sydney and Brisbane is laid 18km south of Taree, NSW.

Apr 10 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco

Apr 04 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)

Apr 16 Arnold Palmer wins his first Masters golf tournament

Apr 17 Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens

Nov 22 Jamie Lee Curtis, actress born

Nov 23 Ronald and Nancy Reagan appeared together in the GE Theatre production of A Turkey for the President.

Nov 27 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany

Nov 28 George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs

Nov 23 One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel was broadcast on CBS radio and starred John Dehner as Paladin. Richard Boone played Paladin on TV.

Nov 24 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community

Nov 28 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community

Nov 30 First guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me

Nov 25 Senegal becomes an autonomous state in the French Community

Nov 28 Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community

Dec 10 First domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 people

Dec 18 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)

Dec 18 First voice from space recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower

Dec 31 International Geophyscial Year ends

Dec 09 Robert H.W. Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society

Dec 11 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France

Dec 06 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back

Dec 18 Test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip

Dec 21 Charles de Gaulle elected President of France

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