Feb 05 Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, West Indies vs Pakistan, Port-of-Spain

Feb 06 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash

Feb 23 Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)

Feb 11 Auto racer Marshall Teague died at age thirty-seven after attempting to raise the closed-course speed record at Daytona.

Feb 11 Ruth Carol Taylor is first African-American woman hired as flight attendant

Feb 22 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)

Feb 05 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated first President of United Arab Republic

Feb 22 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes

Feb 03 Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart &peaks at #3

Feb 01 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic

Feb 15 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra

Feb 21 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances

Feb 23 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels

Feb 06 A plane carrying the Manchester United football team crashed at Munich airport, killing 7 of the team

Feb 15 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN

Feb 08 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle WA (CBS) begins broadcasting

Feb 01 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women

Feb 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Feb 15 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA

Feb 08 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die

Feb 07 Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced

Feb 05 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km

Apr 04 EugŠne Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt

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.

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