Feb 21 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open

Feb 16 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip

Feb 27 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens

Feb 24 Italian government of Segni falls

Feb 29 Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago

Feb 13 The French test their first atomic bomb in the Sahara

Feb 29 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds

Feb 23 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)

Feb 26 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia

Feb 24 US beats Germany in Olympics hockey finals round, 9-1

Feb 02 Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss

Apr 24 In Southern Iran a 6.0 earthquake resulted in 420 killed, 3,000 injured, and $20 million property damage at Kourdeh and Lar.

Apr 10 Civil Rights Bill passed in the American Senate

Apr 01 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee

Apr 01 RCA (TV &Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched

Apr 03 Earthquake at Havr‚, Belgium

Apr 01 First weather satellite, TIROS 1, launched by the United States

Apr 01 U Nu elected premier of Burma

Apr 11 The first weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)

Apr 27 France grants Togo independence

Apr 21 Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil

Apr 25 Locomotive number 6043 makes the last scheduled run of a steam locomotive on Canadian National on train 76 between The Pas and Winnipeg.

Apr 04 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win

Apr 14 Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs for the Stanley Cup

Apr 02 USS Glacier begins 12 days of relief operations, providing helicopter and boat transportation and emergency supplies to residents of Paramaribo, Brazil after floods.

Apr 27 France grants Togo independence, kicking off the end of the colonial age

Apr 17 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government

Apr 10 Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament

Apr 25 The first submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)

Apr 08 U Nu elected premier of Burma

Apr 13 Navy's navigation satellite, Transit, placed into orbit from Cape Canaveral, FL and demonstrates ability to launch another satellite

Apr 25 Hope Emerson actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62

Apr 10 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

Apr 04 Senegal declares independence from France

Apr 08 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee

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