Sep 12 The Television show "Bonanza" premiers

Sep 17 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea

Sep 19 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland

Sep 12 Luna 2 launched by USSR; first spacecraft to impact on the Moon

Sep 18 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit

Sep 12 Luna 2, of the USSR, became to first spacecraft to crash on the moon

Sep 29 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution

Sep 27 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000

Sep 13 USSR's Luna 2 becomes first probe to contact another celestial body

Sep 27 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit

Sep 28 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth

Sep 27 Nearly 5000 people die when a typhoon hits the Japanese island of Honshu.

Sep 15 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit

Jun 18 The First telecast transmitted from England to US

Jun 19 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm

Jun 08 X-15 makes first unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m

Jun 09 The first ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)

Jun 26 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway

Jun 22 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

Jun 01 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)

Jun 11 Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Jun 26 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ

Jun 02 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF

Jun 20 Escuminac New Brunswick a severe storm in Northumberland Strait sinks 22 boats, drowns 35 fishermen.

Jun 11 Hovercraft demonstrated for the first time

Dec 04 A monkey returns to earth safely, after being launched into orbit 55 miles high by the US

Dec 15 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"

Dec 16 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48

Dec 01 Twelve countries sign a treaty to protect Antarctica, as a preserve for scientific research

Dec 19 Walter Williams, thought to be the last surviving veteran of the US Civil War, dies in Houston, Texas at age 117.

Dec 12 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established

Dec 02 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus

Dec 30 The George Washington, first ballistic missile sub commissioned

Dec 19 Penn State’s Nittany Lions beat Alabama, 7-0, in the first Liberty Bowl football game

Dec 17 On the Beach premiered this day at the Astor Theatre in New York City -- and in 17 other cities. It was the first motion picture to debut simultaneously in major cities around the world

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