Notable Historical Events - 1955
1955 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps |
Jan 1 |
WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, FL (CBS) begins |
Jan 2 |
1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS) |
Jan 2 |
Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. |
Jan 3 |
Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama |
Jan 5 |
KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast |
Jan 7 |
Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC) |
Jan 7 |
WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 8 |
Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt |
Jan 8 |
Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak |
Jan 8 |
Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open |
Jan 8 |
WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 14 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Phila |
Jan 15 |
1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum |
Jan 15 |
D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad |
Jan 15 |
USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic |
Jan 16 |
Jackie Pung wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
Jan 16 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-19 |
Jan 17 |
Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage |
Jan 18 |
Battle of Yijiangshan Islands between Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the People's Liberation Army |
Jan 19 |
"Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS |
Jan 19 |
"Scrabble" debuts on board game market |
Jan 19 |
1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) |
Jan 20 |
1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn |
Jan 22 |
Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms |
Jan 23 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
Jan 23 |
KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Jan 25 |
Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race |
Jan 25 |
Russia ends state of war with Germany |
Jan 25 |
US & Panama sign canal treaty |
Jan 25 |
Columbia University scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years |
Jan 27 |
"Plain & Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 476 perfs |
Jan 29 |
John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) |
Jan 31 |
RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer |
Feb 1 |
HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark |
Feb 2 |
1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC |
Feb 8 |
Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him |
Feb 8 |
The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. |
Feb 9 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law |
Feb 9 |
US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO |
Feb 12 |
McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks |
Feb 12 |
Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam |
Feb 12 |
Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan |
Feb 12 |
WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 13 |
Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls |
Feb 13 |
KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 13 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
Feb 14 |
WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (NBC) begins |
Feb 15 |
1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced |
Feb 17 |
Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB |
Feb 17 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe & Bowden of CAN |
Feb 17 |
KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 17 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright US |
Feb 17 |
Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 |
Feb 18 |
Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance |
Feb 19 |
South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect |
Feb 20 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
Feb 22 |
British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail |
Feb 23 |
Edgar Faure forms French government |
Feb 24 |
"Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances |
Feb 24 |
Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed |
Feb 26 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances |
Feb 26 |
1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith |
Feb 27 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
Mar 1 |
Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48 |
Mar 1 |
KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast |
Mar 1 |
Pakistan v India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw |
Mar 2 |
King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father |
Mar 2 |
William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in NYC |
Mar 3 |
Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show "Louisiana Hayride" |
Mar 4 |
1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent |
Mar 5 |
WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 6 |
Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot" |
Mar 6 |
Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
Mar 7 |
7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young win |
Mar 7 |
Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter |
Mar 7 |
Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised |
Mar 13 |
Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal |
Mar 13 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Mar 14 |
Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal |
Mar 15 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses |
Mar 15 |
US Air Force unveils self-guided missile |
Mar 15 |
WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 16 |
Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge |
Mar 16 |
President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war |
Mar 17 |
After Maurice Richard is suspended for the remainder of the season, riots break out in Montreal. 37 people are injured and over 100 are arrested. The following morning, Richard goes on the radio to ask citizens to stop vandalizing the city. |
Mar 18 |
I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan |
Mar 19 |
17th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: SF beats La Salle 77-63 |
Mar 20 |
KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 21 |
Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece |
Mar 21 |
Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums" |
Mar 24 |
1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service |
Mar 24 |
British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years |
Mar 24 |
Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances |
Mar 25 |
E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR |
Mar 25 |
United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene. |
Mar 26 |
"Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US |
Mar 27 |
9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win |
Mar 27 |
Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse) |
Mar 27 |
WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 28 |
NZ cricket all out for 26 v England at Eden Park |
Mar 30 |
27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront", Brando & Grace Kelly win |
Mar 31 |
Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut WI v Aust, Kingston |
Mar 31 |
US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan |
Apr 1 |
Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam |
Apr 1 |
EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus |
Apr 1 |
WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast |
Apr 2 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
Apr 2 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
Apr 2 |
Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules |
Apr 3 |
Balt Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics) |
Apr 3 |
Fire in cinema in Sclessin, Belgium, kills 39 |
Apr 3 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open |
Apr 3 |
Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300 |
Apr 3 |
The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges. |
Apr 4 |
British government signs military treaty with Iraq |
Apr 5 |
Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him |
Apr 6 |
"3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances |
Apr 6 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 6 |
Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam |
Apr 9 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 10 |
19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279 |
Apr 10 |
9th NBA Championship: Syrac Nats beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 10 |
Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine |
Apr 10 |
Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely |
Apr 11 |
Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted |
Apr 11 |
The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. |
Apr 12 |
1st game in KC, KC A's beat Detroit Tigers, 6-2 |
Apr 12 |
salk polio vaccine safe & effective; 4 billion dimes marched |
Apr 13 |
20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record) |
Apr 14 |
Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform |
Apr 14 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 14 |
WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Apr 15 |
Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois) |
Apr 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 17 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Apr 18 |
"Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 perfs |
Apr 18 |
1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed |
Apr 18 |
1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens |
Apr 19 |
59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22 |
Apr 19 |
The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network. |
Apr 20 |
"Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 perfs |
Apr 21 |
Brooklyn Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season |
Apr 21 |
J Lawrence & R E Lee's "Inherit the Wind" premieres in NYC |
Apr 21 |
Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die |
Apr 22 |
KC Athletic's 1st game, beat Tigers 6-2 |
Apr 23 |
"Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances |
Apr 23 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open |
Apr 24 |
Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends |
Apr 24 |
Gaullists lose elections in France |
Apr 24 |
KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 24 |
KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 28 |
WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 29 |
Giovanni Gronchi elected third president of Italy |
Apr 30 |
Element 101, Mendelevium, announced |
Apr 30 |
Imperial Bank of India nationalized |
Apr 30 |
Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks |
Apr 30 |
West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages |
May 1 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament |
May 1 |
Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters) |
May 2 |
India proposal to discrimination against Dalits or "Untouchables" punishable |
May 2 |
Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) |
May 2 |
WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
May 5 |
"Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances |
May 5 |
Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce |
May 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site |
May 5 |
West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers |
May 6 |
West Germany joins NATO |
May 7 |
81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8 |
May 7 |
USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain |
May 7 |
West European Union established |
May 9 |
German Federal Republic joins NATO |
May 11 |
Israel attacks Gaza |
May 12 |
Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0) |
May 13 |
Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463' |
May 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
May 14 |
Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania |
May 15 |
Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins |
May 15 |
KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
May 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 15 |
Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restore Austria's independence |
May 15 |
The first ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain. |
May 16 |
Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in SF |
May 16 |
King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo |
May 16 |
Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown |
May 16 |
Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 17 |
Dutch government of Drees resigns |
May 18 |
28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record) |
May 18 |
Atkinson & Depeiaza take WI from 6-187 to 6-494 in day v Aust |
May 18 |
Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam |
May 19 |
Atkinson & Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI v Australia |
May 20 |
Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state |
May 21 |
"House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances |
May 21 |
1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset |
May 21 |
WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
May 22 |
Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th |
May 25 |
Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla |
May 26 |
"7th Heaven" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 44 performances |
May 26 |
Conservatives win British parliamentary election |
May 26 |
Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade |
May 27 |
Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 |
May 27 |
Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV |
May 28 |
81st Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6 |
May 28 |
Indianapolis 500: Bob Sweikert wins |
May 28 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
May 28 |
Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria. |
May 29 |
Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns |
May 30 |
KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 30 |
Said el-Mufti forms Jordan government |
May 30 |
Tunisia begins domestic self governing |
May 31 |
Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities |
May 31 |
Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to rail strike |
May 31 |
US Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed" |
Jun 1 |
Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia |
Jun 2 |
The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948. |
Jun 3 |
KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 3 |
Stan Musial hits his 300th HR |
Jun 4 |
"Mickey Rooney Show" TV comedy last airs on NBC |
Jun 5 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
Jun 5 |
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce |
Jun 6 |
Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1 |
Jun 7 |
"$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV |
Jun 7 |
1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower) |
Jun 7 |
India premier Nehru visit USSR |
Jun 8 |
Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax |
Jun 9 |
100°F - Hottest day in Seattle, Washington |
Jun 9 |
Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa at Trent Bridge |
Jun 10 |
1st separation of virus into component parts reported |
Jun 10 |
KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jun 11 |
1st magnesium jet airplane flies |
Jun 11 |
87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 2:29 |
Jun 11 |
Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators (race continues) |
Jun 12 |
"Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC |
Jun 12 |
Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network |
Jun 13 |
Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France |
Jun 14 |
Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Jun 15 |
Australia score 8-758 v West Indies at Kingston, their best ever |
Jun 15 |
The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack. |
Jun 16 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
Jun 16 |
Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron |
Jun 18 |
"3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances |
Jun 19 |
55th US Golf Open: Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic CC in SF |
Jun 19 |
Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100 |
Jun 19 |
Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history |
Jun 20 |
"Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Jun 21 |
Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!" |
Jun 22 |
Antonio Segni forms government in Italy |
Jun 22 |
US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea |
Jun 23 |
Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released |
Jun 24 |
Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff) |
Jun 25 |
"Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances |
Jun 25 |
"Imogene Coca Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 26 |
Freedom Charter signed in South Africa |
Jun 26 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
Jun 27 |
"Julius LaRosa Show" debuts on CBS-TV |
Jun 27 |
1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois) |
Jun 29 |
Argentine state of siege ends |
Jun 30 |
"Johnny Carson Show" debuts on CBS-TV |
Jul 1 |
69th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (6-3 7-5 6-1) |
Jul 1 |
KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 2 |
"7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances |
Jul 2 |
"Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances |
Jul 2 |
"Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC |
Jul 2 |
10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker |
Jul 2 |
62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (7-5 8-6) |
Jul 5 |
English harbor strike ends |
Jul 7 |
1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson |
Jul 9 |
First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow) |
Jul 9 |
Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart |
Jul 9 |
Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week |
Jul 9 |
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London. |
Jul 11 |
Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust" |
Jul 11 |
New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets |
Jul 12 |
22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw |
Jul 12 |
Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina |
Jul 13 |
The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London. |
Jul 14 |
2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascot racecourse, England |
Jul 15 |
WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 15 |
Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. |
Jul 16 |
"Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland |
Jul 17 |
Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power |
Jul 17 |
Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California. |
Jul 18 |
1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially |
Jul 18 |
280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record) |
Jul 19 |
Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum |
Jul 19 |
Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel |
Jul 21 |
USS Seawolf launched, 1st submarine powered by liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor |
Jul 22 |
1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon |
Jul 22 |
Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11 |
Jul 23 |
NY Yankees Bob Cerv & E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
Jul 24 |
Ali Sastroamidjojo of government resigns in Indonesia |
Jul 24 |
Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
Jul 26 |
37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit |
Jul 26 |
Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester |
Jul 26 |
Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers |
Jul 27 |
Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation |
Jul 27 |
Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die |
Jul 28 |
The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France. |
Jul 29 |
Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5 |
Jul 29 |
USSR performs nuclear Test |
Jul 30 |
Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France |
Jul 31 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open |
Jul 31 |
KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
Jul 31 |
WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Aug 1 |
1st microgravity research begins |
Aug 1 |
Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government |
Aug 1 |
WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 2 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Aug 3 |
Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing |
Aug 3 |
Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days |
Aug 3 |
Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7) |
Aug 4 |
Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters |
Aug 5 |
After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back next 798 consecutive games |
Aug 7 |
Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel |
Aug 7 |
KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins |
Aug 7 |
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan. |
Aug 8 |
Fidel Castro forms "July 26th Movement" |
Aug 8 |
Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy |
Aug 11 |
Indonesia government of Harahap forms |
Aug 12 |
22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000) |
Aug 12 |
Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour |
Aug 12 |
WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 13 |
Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield |
Aug 15 |
WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins |
Aug 15 |
Hurricane Connie dissipates after killing 43 in NC, SC, Virginia & Maryland |
Aug 16 |
Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor |
Aug 17 |
Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage |
Aug 18 |
-19] Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US |
Aug 18 |
46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record) |
Aug 18 |
Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria |
Aug 19 |
32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record) |
Aug 19 |
Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US) |
Aug 19 |
US raises import duty on bicycles 50% |
Aug 19 |
WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's) |
Aug 20 |
1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca |
Aug 20 |
Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria |
Aug 21 |
Emmett Till arrives in Money, Mississippi, a week before he is murdered |
Aug 23 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open |
Aug 25 |
Last Soviet forces leave Austria |
Aug 26 |
1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup) |
Aug 27 |
"Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published |
Aug 27 |
Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts |
Aug 28 |
1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17 |
Aug 28 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament |
Aug 31 |
1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx) |
Aug 31 |
1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill |
Aug 31 |
KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 1 |
2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel |
Sep 1 |
KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 2 |
KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 3 |
KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 5 |
Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician |
Sep 5 |
Dodger Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season |
Sep 5 |
WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 5 |
WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 6 |
"Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances |
Sep 6 |
J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname |
Sep 8 |
Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers) |
Sep 9 |
Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run |
Sep 9 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open |
Sep 10 |
"Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV |
Sep 11 |
69th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (6-4 6-2) |
Sep 11 |
75th US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (9-7 6-3 6-3) |
Sep 11 |
KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple. |
Sep 12 |
KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 14 |
Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245) |
Sep 15 |
WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, FL (CBS) begins |
Sep 16 |
Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st |
Sep 16 |
US Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories |
Sep 16 |
Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt |
Sep 17 |
"Ankles Aweigh" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 176 perfs |
Sep 17 |
Future Hall of Famer Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game |
Sep 18 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open |
Sep 18 |
Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock) |
Sep 19 |
Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns & flees |
Sep 19 |
Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season |
Sep 19 |
Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico |
Sep 20 |
Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH |
Sep 20 |
Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season |
Sep 21 |
Last allied occupying troops leave Austria |
Sep 21 |
Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 21 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Sep 21 |
Heavyweight champ Rocky Mariano KOs Archie Moore in round 9 |
Sep 22 |
(ITV) Commercial TV begins in UK; meanwhile on BBC radio Grace Archer is killed in a barn fire on Brookfield Farm - the BBC denied that this was a spoiler! |
Sep 22 |
-28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean |
Sep 23 |
Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad |
Sep 23 |
Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2 |
Sep 24 |
"Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances |
Sep 24 |
US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver |
Sep 24 |
Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season |
Sep 25 |
Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ |
Sep 25 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open |
Sep 25 |
The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. |
Sep 26 |
NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929 |
Sep 28 |
1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers) |
Sep 28 |
WITN TV channel 7 in Washington, NC (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 29 |
"Sergeant Preston" debuts on CBS |
Sep 29 |
Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia |
Sep 29 |
Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge" premieres in NYC |
Oct 1 |
"Honeymooners" premieres |
Oct 1 |
Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank) |
Oct 1 |
WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez, PR (TCI) begins broadcasting |
Oct 2 |
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres |
Oct 2 |
9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit |
Oct 2 |
Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania |
Oct 2 |
WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins |
Oct 3 |
"Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain! |
Oct 3 |
"Mickey Mouse Club" premieres |
Oct 3 |
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes pres of Brazil |
Oct 3 |
Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea |
Oct 3 |
WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 3 |
WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 4 |
Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 |
Oct 4 |
Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul |
Oct 7 |
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn |
Oct 7 |
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco. |
Oct 8 |
World's most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched |
Oct 9 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open |
Oct 11 |
All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina |
Oct 11 |
Persia signs Pact of Baghdad |
Oct 12 |
-13] Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti |
Oct 13 |
1st edition of L'express publishes in Paris |
Oct 17 |
Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel |
Oct 18 |
Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete |
Oct 18 |
University of California discovers anti-proton |
Oct 20 |
"No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith |
Oct 20 |
Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song) |
Oct 20 |
Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan |
Oct 20 |
Publication of "The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien - 2nd best-selling novel |
Oct 22 |
WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 23 |
Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time |
Oct 25 |
Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938 |
Oct 25 |
Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates |
Oct 25 |
Tappan sells 1st microwave oven |
Oct 26 |
First edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published |
Oct 26 |
British troops occupy Saudi Arabian oil field at Boeraimi |
Oct 26 |
Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres |
Oct 27 |
Argentine peso devalued |
Oct 27 |
Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows & takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo |
Oct 28 |
Egypt & Saudi Arabia sign defense treaty |
Oct 29 |
Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours) |
Oct 29 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) & 25,000m (1:16:36) |
Oct 30 |
Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 v NZ, the record for a no 8 batsman |
Oct 31 |
Mgr Alfrink appointed archbishop of Utrecht |
Nov 1 |
Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado |
Nov 2 |
Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus |
Nov 2 |
David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government |
Nov 3 |
First virus crystallized (announced) |
Nov 3 |
Alabama woman bruised by a meteor |
Nov 3 |
Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua |
Nov 3 |
Australia takes control of Cocos Islands |
Nov 3 |
Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht |
Nov 4 |
The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II. |
Nov 5 |
Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds) |
Nov 5 |
New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria) |
Nov 5 |
Date returned to in "Back to the Future" by Marty McFly |
Nov 6 |
11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif |
Nov 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 7 |
Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas |
Nov 9 |
Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in NYC |
Nov 9 |
NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca |
Nov 9 |
UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics |
Nov 10 |
"Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances |
Nov 12 |
1st West German officers sworn in |
Nov 12 |
E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame |
Nov 13 |
1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba |
Nov 13 |
Argentine general Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president |
Nov 15 |
Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement |
Nov 16 |
1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (Donald Campbell) |
Nov 16 |
KLM orders 8 DC-8s |
Nov 16 |
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco |
Nov 18 |
Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight |
Nov 19 |
KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 19 |
National Review publishes its first issue. |
Nov 20 |
Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India v NZ |
Nov 20 |
Polly Umrigar scores India's 1st Test Cricket double century, 223 v NZ |
Nov 21 |
Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron |
Nov 21 |
KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 22 |
RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss |
Nov 23 |
British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia |
Nov 24 |
1st test flight of Fokker's F-27 Friendship |
Nov 25 |
Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses between US states |
Nov 25 |
Walter Piston's 6th Symphony premieres |
Nov 25 |
Clement Attlee resigns as leader of the UK Labour Party |
Nov 26 |
"Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances |
Nov 26 |
43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19 |
Nov 26 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus |
Nov 28 |
KMVI (now WMAU) TV channel 12 in Wailuku, HI (IND) begins broadcasting |
Nov 28 |
KTHV TV channel 11 in Little Rock, AR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 29 |
Turkish government of Menderes resigns |
Nov 30 |
"Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances |
Nov 30 |
Argentine government disbands Peronistic party |
Dec 1 |
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus and give her seat to a white passenger |
Dec 3 |
KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 4 |
Mgr Alfrink installed as Archbishop of Utrecht |
Dec 5 |
AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president |
Dec 5 |
Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks |
Dec 5 |
The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO. |
Dec 6 |
NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing |
Dec 8 |
21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB) |
Dec 8 |
Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award |
Dec 8 |
Turkish government of Menderes forms |
Dec 12 |
1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell |
Dec 14 |
Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar |
Dec 14 |
Tappan Zee Bridge in NY opens to traffic |
Dec 19 |
Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" |
Dec 20 |
Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales |
Dec 25 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music & popular music |
Dec 26 |
Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Los Angeles Rams 38-14 |
Dec 26 |
RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV |
Dec 28 |
44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0) |
Dec 29 |
Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13 |
Dec 31 |
"Vamp" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances |
Dec 31 |
The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year. |
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