May 07 Leonid Brezhnev becomes the President of the USSR

May 07 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship

May 23 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24

May 10 John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia

May 19 Alan Freed &eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola

May 07 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy

May 07 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances

May 10 US atomic sub USS Triton completes first circumnavigation of globe under water

May 07 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR

May 03 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC

May 29 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1

Jan 02 First redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)

Jan 02 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years

Jan 02 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President

Jan 01 Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France

Jan 02 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony premieres

Jan 11 Chad declares independence from France

Jan 30 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands

Jan 30 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins

Jan 19 Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact

Jan 04 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm

Jan 23 Piccard &Walsh in bathyscaph "Trieste" reach 10,900 meters in Mariana Trench

Jan 01 Montserrat adopts constitution

Jan 02 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President

Jan 30 Riot curtails third day's play at Port-Of-Spain West Indies vs England

Jan 01 Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20¢

Jan 01 Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars

Jan 30 CIA allows Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) lookout Mr. Powers

Jan 14 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant

Jan 01 Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars

Jan 01 Montserrat adopts constitution

Jan 01 US census at 179,245,000

Jan 24 Algeria uprises against French President De Gaulle

Jan 10 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz

Jan 21 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning

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