1958
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President: Dwight D. Eisenhower | Vice President: Richard M. Nixon | US Population: 174,881,904 | World Series: NY YANKEES 4, Milwaukee Braves 3 |
NBA Champ: St Louis Hawks 4, Boston, 2 | Stanley Cup: Montreal 4, Boston, 2 | NCAA Football: LSU and Iowa | NCAA Basketball: Kentucky 84, Seattle 72 | World Cup: Brazil 5, Sweden 2
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EVENTS:
Jan 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented.
Jan 1 - BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7hours 57minutes.
Jan 1 - European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation.
Jan 1 - Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White.
Jan 1 - Treaties establish European Economic Community (Common Market).
Jan 1 - WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting.
Jan 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY.
Jan 3 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland.
Jan 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit & burns up. (launched Oct 4, 1957)
Jan 6 - Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar.
Jan 6 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to EE Cummings
Jan 6 - WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
Jan 7 - USSR shrinks army to 300,000.
Jan 8 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana.
Jan 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fisher wins the United States Chess Championship.
Jan 9 - In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati OH) scores 56, Seton Hall team, 54.
Jan 10 - Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and R&B charts, #2 on the pop chart.
Jan 12 - NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring.
Jan 12 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open.
Jan 12 - NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 26-7.
Jan 12 - Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points.
Jan 13 - 9,235 scientists of 43 nations publish a plea to the UN to stop nuclear bomb tests.
Jan 13 - US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication.
Jan 15 - New York Yankees sign $million plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV.
Jan 16 - William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw" premieres in New York City.
Jan 18 - 1st black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins).
Jan 19 - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League.
Jan 20 - Elvis Presley receives his draft notice.
Jan 20 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open.
Jan 20 - KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City UT (PBS) begins broadcasting.
Jan 21 - KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot ND (NBC) begins broadcasting.
Jan 21 - Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City. (doesn't happen)
Jan 22 - KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
Jan 23 - "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 60 performances.
Jan 23 - Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez flees Venezuela, Larrazábal takes power.
Jan 23 - Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies.
Jan 24 - After warming to 100,000,000ş, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion.
Jan 24 - Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It".
Jan 26 - H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan as Israeli minister of Defense.
Jan 26 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational.
Jan 27 - Ferenc Münnich follows Kádár as premier of Hungary.
Jan 28 - Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor.
Jan 28 - Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck.
Jan 28 - Charles Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents & infant sister.
Jan 29 - Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming.
Jan 29 - Paul Newman marries Joanne Woodward.
Jan 30 - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX.
Jan 30 - House of Lords passes bill allowing women in.
Jan 30 - Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars.
Jan 30 - Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello" premieres in New York City.
Jan 31 - "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host.
Jan 31 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
Jan 31 - The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.
Jan 31 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
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Feb 1 - Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic.
Feb 1 - WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando FL (ABC) begins broadcasting.
Feb 2 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open.
Feb 3 - Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3.
Feb 4 - "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 192 performances.
Feb 4 - Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950.
Feb 5 - Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister. (Romania)
Feb 5 - Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st President of United Arab Republic.
Feb 5 - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km.
Feb 5 - Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated to be 1st president of United Arab Republic.
Feb 6 - 21 dead, including 7 players for Manchester United football team, in Munich air disaster.
Feb 6 - Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid.
Feb 7 - Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
Feb 7 - Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced.
Feb 8 - Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
Feb 8 - French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die.
Feb 8 - KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle WA (CBS) begins broadcasting.
Feb 11 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs.
Feb 11 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant.
Feb 11 - WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga TN (ABC) begins broadcasting.
Feb 11 - Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101.
Feb 12 - General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala.
Feb 12 - Birth of Arsenio Hall comedian/actor.
Feb 15 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA.
Feb 15 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA.
Feb 15 - Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra.
Feb 16 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open.
Feb 17 - Comic strip "BC" 1st appears.
Feb 17 - WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta GA (PBS) begins broadcasting.
Feb 20 - Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner.
Feb 20 - Los Angeles Coliseum Committee approves 2-year pact allows Dodgers to use facility.
Feb 20 - Test rocket explodes in Cape Canaveral.
Feb 21 - "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 3 performances.
Feb 21 - Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President. (99.9% vote)
Feb 22 - Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days.
Feb 22 - Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR).
Feb 23 - Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913).
Feb 23 - Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina.
Feb 23 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR.
Feb 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
Feb 25 - Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Feb 28 - One of the worst school bus accidents in US history occurred at Prestonsburg, Kentucky, killing 27.
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Mar 1 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, 9th bishop (4th archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagaion of Faith thus becomming the 1st American member of the Roman Curia.
Mar 2 - 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
Mar 2 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open.
Mar 2 - A British team led by Sir vivian Fuchs completes the 1st crossing of the Antarctic in Snow-car caterpillar tractors & dogsled teams in 99 days.
Mar 2 - Yemen announces it will join the United Arab Republic.
Mar 3 - KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco CA (IND) 1st broadcast.
Mar 3 - Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq.
Mar 5 - Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit.
Mar 5 - KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring NE (ABC) 1st broadcast.
Mar 7 - Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo.
Mar 8 - USS Wisconsin is decomissioned, leaving the US Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896.
Mar 8 - Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita.
Mar 8 - William Faulkner says US schools degenerated to become babysitters.
Mar 9 - George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season.
Mar 10 - Birth of actress Sharon Stone in Meadville, PA.
Mar 11 - The US B-47 bomber drops a nuclear bomb in the Mars Bluff, South Carolina.
Mar 11 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21".
Mar 11 - Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets.
Mar 13 - Birth of NY Republican Representative Rick A Lazio.
Mar 13 - Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia.
Mar 14 - RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is created and certifies 1st gold record... Perry Como's "Catch A Falling Star."
Mar 14 - South Africa government disallows ANC.
Mar 14 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
Mar 14 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test.
Mar 15 - "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 60 performances.
Mar 15 - KULR TV channel 8 in Billings MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting.
Mar 15 - Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 points.
Mar 15 - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis. He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled.
Mar 16 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
Mar 17 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 satellite into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape.
Mar 18 - Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958.
Mar 19 - Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London.
Mar 20 - 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line.
Mar 20 - Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission.
Mar 20 - Birth of actress Holly Hunter.
Mar 21 - Birth of actor Gary Oldman.
Mar 21 - 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award.
Mar 21 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test.
Mar 22 - 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72.
Mar 22 - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia.
Mar 22 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd).
Mar 22 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR.
Mar 24 - Elvis Presley joins the army.
Mar 25 - Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champion to win 5 times.
Mar 25 - West German parliament desires German atomic weapons.
Mar 26 - 30th Academy Awards - "Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness & Joanne Woodward win. (Other nominees: "12 Angry Men" with Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose; "Peyton Place" with Jerry Wald; "Sayonara" with William Goetz; "Witness for the Prosecution" with Arthur Hornblow, Jr; Best Actor: Alec Guinness, "Bridge on the River Kwai"; Best Actress: Joanne Woodward, "Three Faces of Eve"
Mar 26 - US Army launches America's third successful satellite, Explorer III.
Mar 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
Mar 27 - Birth of NY Republican Representative Susan Molinari.
Mar 27 - CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records.
Mar 27 - Havana Hilton opens.
Mar 29 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Carol Heiss.
Mar 29 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by David Jenkins.
Mar 31 - US Navy forms atomic sub division.
Mar 31 - USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US and Britain to do same.
Mar 31 - Birth of actor Ken Meeker, New York, NY. (Rafe Garretson-One Life to Live)
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Apr 1 - KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting.
Apr 2 - National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA.
Apr 2 - Wind speed reaches record 450 kph in tornado in Wichita Falls, TX.
Apr 2 - Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens.
Apr 3 - "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 332 performances.
Apr 3 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana.
Apr 3 - Birth of actor Alec Baldwin, Amityville, NY.
Apr 4 - 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England).
Apr 4 - Daughter of actress Lana Turner stabs her mother's gangster lover to death; eventually ruled self defence.
Apr 6 - Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-the Masters.
Apr 7 - Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at Los Angeles Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line.
Apr 10 - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco.
Apr 11 - Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (San Francisco).
Apr 12 - 12th NBA Championship St Louis Hawks beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2.
Apr 12 - 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello & Music Man win.
Apr 14 - Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere.
Apr 15 - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win.
Apr 15 - 1st baseball game in California, San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-0.
Apr 16 - 22nd Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284.
Apr 16 - French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis.
Apr 17 - Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens; known as Expo '58.
Apr 18 - National League single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles.
Apr 19 - 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54.
Apr 20 - Buses replace Key System trains in San Francisco area at 3 AM.
Apr 20 - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
Apr 20 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
Apr 20 - Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops.
Apr 21 - Birth of actress Andie MacDowell, Gaffney, SC.
Apr 23 - Gil Hodges hits his 300th homerun & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game.
Apr 24 - Lee Walls hits 3 homerunS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2.
Apr 28 - Vanguard TV-5 failed launch for Earth orbit.
Apr 28 - Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America.
Apr 28 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island.
Apr 29 - Birth of actress Michelle Pfeiffer, Santa Ana, CA.
Apr 30 - Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits.
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May 1 - Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina.
May 2 - Yankees threaten to broadcast games nationwide if National League goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into New York City.
May 3 - 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05.
May 3 - WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits.
May 4 - Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia.
May 5 - KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque NM (PBS) begins broadcasting.
May 5 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for Death in the Family.
May 5 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
May 7 - Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters.
May 8 - President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock.
May 8 - Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru.
May 9 - Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship.
May 11 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open.
May 11 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.
May 11 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
May 12 - "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo and The Dont's hits #40.
May 12 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
May 12 - Formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement signed between the United States and Canada.
May 13 - Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela.
May 13 - French settlers riot against French army in Algeria.
May 13 - Jordan & Iraq form the Arab Federation.
May 13 - Pierre Pflimlin forms French Government.
May 13 - Rioters attack US Vice President Nixon in Venezuala.
May 13 - Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits.
May 15 - Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
May 16 - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico.
May 16 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter.
May 17 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria.
May 18 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open.
May 18 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph.
May 18 - "South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks.
May 19 - Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London.
May 19 - US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
May 20 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests).
May 21 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests).
May 23 - Mao Tse Tung starts "Great leap forward" movement in China.
May 23 - Birth of actor/comedian Drew Carey.
May 23 - Explorer I stopped transmission.
May 24 - "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St Theater New York City after 432 performances.
May 24 - President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion.
May 24 - UP & International News Service merge into United Press International.
May 26 - Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed.
May 26 - Union Square, San Fransisco becomes state historical landmark.
May 28 - French Government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle.
May 28 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open.
May 29 - Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels.
May 30 - Unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
May 31 - Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin".
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Jun 1 - Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France, remaining in power until 1969.
Jun 1 - Iceland extends its fishing limits to 12 miles.
Jun 16 - Imre Nagy is hanged for treason in Hungary.
Jun 22 - Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado.
Jun 26 - Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated.
Jun 26 - Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
Jun 27 - Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th.
Jun 29 - Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm.
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July 3 - "The Andy Williams Show" premiers on ABC. Then later on CBS & NBC.
July 6 - Alaska becomes the 49th state.
July 7 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
July 8 - AL beats NL 4-3 in 25th All Star Game (Memorial Stadium, Baltimore).
July 8 - 7.5 Richter scale earthquake makes Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska produces a huge 1,800ft wave up the mountain.
July 10 - 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed).
July 14 - Iraqi Revolution: The monarch in Iraq is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader.
July 15 - Pres Eisenhower sends 5,000 United States Marines to Beirut, Lebanon for 3 months to protect the pro-Western government there at request of President Chamoun, who fears overthrow.
July 20 - Various rebel groups in Cuba join forces, but communists do not join the deal.
July 23 - 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords, Britain.
July 25 - "Sensational" Sherri Martel wins wrestling's WWF woman's title.
July 26 - Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV.
July 29 - Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958.
July 29 - Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
July 29 - Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running.
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Aug 1 - Postage stamps up to $0.04... It had been $0.03 for 26 years.
Aug 3 - Nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap.
Aug 4 - Dumont TV Network crumbles.
Aug 6 - Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles.
Aug 7 - Birth of New York City Marathon Winner, Alberto Salazar.
Aug 14 - Canadian Football League plays 1st game: Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21.
Aug 14 - Cleveland Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game.
Aug 14 - KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99.
Aug 14 - Birth of NBA star, LA Laker Earvin (Magic) Johnson.
Aug 14 - Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46.
Aug 16 - Birth of singer/acress Madonna (Ciccone) in Bay City, Michigan.
Aug 17 - World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec.
Aug 18 - Betsy Palmer joins the Today Show panel.
Aug 18 - Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde.
Aug 18 - Great Britain issues regional stamps of N Ireland, Scotland & Wales.
Aug 18 - Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published.
Aug 18 - TV game show scandal investigation starts.
Aug 19 - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters.
Aug 20 - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years.
Aug 20 - Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0.
Aug 21 - KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions.
Aug 22 - Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return.
Aug 23 - Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours.
Aug 29 - Air Force Academy opens.
Aug 29 - Birth of singer Michael Jackson in Gary, Indiana.
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Sept 1 - St Louis Cardinal Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout.
Sept 5 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US.
Sept 5 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC.
Sept 8 - Oman turns over Gwadur (on BalŁchist n coast) to Pakistan.
Sept 9 - Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game.
Sept 15 - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge in Newark, NJ, killing 48.
Sept 20 - Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0.
Sept 20 - Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in New York City.
Sept 21 - 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas Tx.
Sept 24 - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia.
Sept 26 - Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup.
Sept 27 - Hurricane Vera kills 615 in Honshu, Japan.
Sept 28 - Guinea votes for independence from France.
Sept 28 - New French constitution adopted.
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Oct 1 - NASA starts operations and replaces the NACA.
Oct 2 - Guinea gains independence from France.
Oct 4 - Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
Oct 7 - Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
Oct 7 - US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
Oct 9 - NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series. (NY Yankees appear in 9, & win 7 of the last 10 World Series)
Oct 9 - Pope Pius XII dies.
Oct 11 - 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
Oct 16 - Birth of actor Tim Robbins.
Oct 23 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Proze for Literature
Oct 26 - PanAm flies the 1st transatlantic jet trip; NY to Paris
Oct 28 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII
During the International Geophysical Year, Earth's magnetosphere is discovered.
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Nov 15 - Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at 44
Nov 22 - Actress Jamie Lee Curtis born in Los Angeles, CA
Nov 23 - "Have Gun, Will Travel!" debuts on radio.
Nov 27 - USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
Nov 30 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
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Dec 1 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
Dec 1 - Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chicago)
Dec 1 - "Flower Drum Song" opens at St James Theater NYC for 602 performances
Dec 2 - Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
Dec 2 - 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
Dec 5 - Phils drops plans for NY sportcast as Yankees threat to do same in Philadelphia.
Dec 6 - US Lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back.
Dec 9 - Robert H W Welch, Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society.
Dec 10 - 1st domestic (NY - Miami) passenger jet flight, National 707, flew 111.
Dec 11 - Archibald MacLeish's "JB" premiers in NY, NY.
Dec 18 - 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment.
Dec 19 - 1st radio broadcast from space (recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower: "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere.")
Dec 21 - Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Repulic of France.
Dec 22 - "Chipmunk Song" (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) reaches #1.
Dec 22 - "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances.
Dec 23 - "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 38 performances.
Dec 25 - Alan Freed's Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular opens.
Dec 28 - Baltimore Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game.
Dec 29 - TV soap, "Young Dr. Malone" debuts.
Dec 30 - French franc devalued.
Dec 31 - International Geophysical Year ends.
Dec 31 - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4 times.
Dec 31 - 47th Davis Cup; USA beats Australia in Brisband, 3-2.
Dec 31 - Cuban dictator Batista flees.
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