Jan 09 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

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

Jan 02 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony premieres

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

Jan 14 Elvis Presley is promoted to sergeant in the U.S. Army.

Jan 04 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm

Jan 04 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm

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

Jan 01 Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France

Jan 01 US census at 179,245,000

Jan 28 Goon Show's final episode on BBC

Jan 18 US & Japan sign joint defense treaty

Jan 11 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts

Jan 20 Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo

Jan 12 Sobers &Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wicket vs England

Jan 21 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km

Jan 30 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss

Jan 14 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded

Feb 26 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating

Feb 08 Congress opens hearings looking into payola

Feb 28 8th winter Olympics games close at Squaw Valley CA

Feb 18 U.S. Vice President Nixon opens the Eighth Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, CA.

Feb 28 US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4

Feb 21 Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba

Feb 19 Protest strike in Poznan Poland

Feb 01 4 students stage first civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth

Feb 29 JFK makes "missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue

Feb 29 Hugh Hefner opens the first Playboy Club in Chicago.

Feb 13 France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria

Feb 11 Jack Paar walks off his TV show

Feb 26 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion

Feb 16 The nuclear powered submarine 'Triton' sets off on its round the world underwater voyage

Feb 14 Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan

Feb 01 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender

Feb 19 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts

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