Dec 01 Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Nat'l Day)

Dec 29 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts

Dec 18 Project SCORE, the world's first experimental communications satellite, was launched

Dec 02 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

Dec 18 First voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower

Dec 01 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic)

Dec 04 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community

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

May 12 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

May 04 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia

May 30 Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington

May 13 Pierre Pflimlin forms French Government

May 16 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico

May 31 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)

May 08 Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru

May 15 Sputnik III satelite launched by the U S S R

May 13 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria

May 26 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

May 05 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)

May 27 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

May 23 Mao Tse Tung starts "Great leap forward" movement in China

May 16 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter

May 19 US &Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)

May 27 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS

May 11 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

May 26 Union Square, San Fransisco becomes state historical landmark

May 01 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai

May 19 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London

May 08 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock

May 03 In Brockville, Ontario a Trust company is robbed of $3.3 million dollars in bonds and securities.

May 21 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island

May 28 French Government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle

May 13 Rioters attack US Vice President Nixon in Venezuala

May 17 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria

May 05 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

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