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

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

Aug 14 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99

Aug 04 Dumont TV Network crumbles

Aug 01 US first class postage up to $0.04 - was $0.03 for 26 years

Aug 23 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours

Aug 17 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec

Aug 29 Air Force Academy opens

Aug 18 TV game show scandal investigation starts

Aug 19 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters

Aug 18 Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde

Aug 21 Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America

Aug 01 US submarine USS Nautilus submerges under the Arctic ice cap

Aug 18 Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland andWales)

Aug 06 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles

Aug 03 The USS Nautilus (the first nuclear submarine) passes under the North Pole.

Aug 18 Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published

Oct 23 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 01 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA

Oct 09 Pope Pius XII dies, 19 years after elevation to the papacy

Oct 28 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected Pope; he takes the name John XXIII.

Oct 24 USS Kleinsmith (APD-134) evacuates U.S. nationals from Nicaro, Cuba.

Oct 01 Inauguration of NASA

Oct 04 Transatlantic comercial jet passenger service began (BOAC)

Oct 04 5th French republic established

Oct 01 Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia

Oct 07 US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury

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