Mar 26 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
Mar 01 Gary Sobers 365 vs Pakistan, 614 minutes, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara
Mar 16 On this day in 1958 the Ford Motor Company produced its 50,000,000th car, a Thunderbird
Mar 19 Britain's first planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London
Mar 12 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
Mar 27 Havana Hilton opens
Mar 21 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
Mar 15 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
Mar 01 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 declare vs Pakistan
Mar 22 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
Mar 07 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters
Mar 13 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
Mar 17 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
Mar 31 US Navy forms atomic sub division
Mar 03 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
Mar 25 Sugar Ray Robinson is first boxing champion to win 5 times
Mar 03 The birth of Miranda Richardson, English actress
Mar 26 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness &Joanne Woodward win
Mar 27 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
Mar 14 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies first gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
Mar 25 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
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
