Winter of Terror
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1954 Killer avalanches in the Alps. War for independence started in Algeria until 1962, contraceptive pill developed, Newport RI hurricane, Hurricane Hazel hits Toronto CAN, Flooding along Texas/Mexico border, 3000 die in storm in Iran, Avalanches in Austria, flooding in China and Tibet, Typhoon in Japan, earthquake hits Algeria * Eisenhowers join Elder Benson and Marriot families for family home evening, Oprah Winfrey born in MS, Jan - Tornado hits Liverpool, Nova Scotia, CAN, 4 inches of snow falls in Milton, FL, Oct - Hurricane Hazel hits the Carolinas, quakes in Spain (7.9) and NV (three over 6.6), Brown v. Board, tap dancer Gregory Hines makes Broadway debut, US overthrows Presiddent Arbenz of Guatemala and 200 k citizens die as result, Pincus Rock and Garcia develop birth control pill, Senator Welch castigates Senator McCarthy in senate, US launches nuclear powered Nautilus, McCarthyism in US, beginning of African colonies gaining independence 'till 1960, Algeria battles for independence, China and US birth control pill, Cecil Beaton authors “Glass of Fashion” as history of style, Cristobal Balenciaga introduces style that would become classic 1950s – feminine yet ultra-modern, death of Spanish dramatist and 1922 Nobel Prize winner Jacinto Benavente, death of French painter Henri Matisse, death of French painter Andre Derain, death of German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, death of Enrico Fermi the Italian physicist and 1938 Nobel Prize winner, Film: Godzilla King of the Monsters in Japan, Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Vietnamese take French fortifications – Indo-China armistice signed in Geneva – Communists occupy Hanoi, Allied foreign ministers meet in Berlin - Russians reject German reunification, Colonel Nasser seizes power in Egypt and becomes premier, St. Lawrence Seaway project approved by Eisenhower, US-Japanese defense agreement, Malenkov becomes Premier of USSR, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip begin Commonwealth tour, US Supreme Court rules that segregation by color in public schools is a violation of 14th Amendment, Marshall Tito visits Greece and India, Eisenhower and Churchill meet in Washington and sign Potomac Charter, Theodor Heuss elected President of W Germany, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established, US and Canada agree to build radar warning stations across northern Canada (Distant Early Warning “DEW” line), France and W Germany sign cultural and economic agreement, Burma and Japan sign treaty, US signs pact with Nationalist China, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in Bonn, Senator Joseph R McCarthy continues anti-Communist activities culminating in televised hearing to prove infiltration into Army – formal censure and condemnation by Senate resolution follows, WRITE: Ernest Hemingway (Nobel), Aldous Huxley, Mac Hyman, Thomas Mann, W Somerset Maugham, Mauriac, Montherlant, Theodor Pliever, John Patrick, JB Priestley, Giradoux, Terence Rattigan, Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Thornton Wilder, Kingsley Amis, William Golding (Lord of the Flies), John Masters, Francoise Sagan, CP Snow, JRR Tolkien (Lord of the Rings), Dylan Thomas (posth), Enid bagnold, Christopher Fry, Bruce Catton, Charles A Lindbergh, Theodore Roethke, Richard Wright, Mortimer Wheeler, Gilbert Ryle, CE Raven, Isaac Deutscher, Ritchie Calder, Deaths: Jacinto Benavente (ESP), Colette (FRA), Martin Anderson Nexo (DAN), Lionel Barrymore, Billy Graham begins holding evangelistic meetings in NY London and Berlin, Pope Pius XII proclaims Pope Pius X a saint, World Council of Churches convened in IL, ART: Roger Bissiere, Massimo Campigli, Lynn Chadwick, Chagall, Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Fernard Leger, Picasso, Graham Sutherland, Deaths: Andre Derain, Henri Matisse, Reginald Marsh, GPO tower in London designed, “Herblock” wins second Pulitzer for cartoons, Films: “Diabolique” “La Strada” (Fellini), “On the Waterfront” “Rear Window” (Hitchcock), “The Seven Samurai” , MUSIC: Lennox Berkeley, Britten, Aaron Copland, Schonberg, Gian Carlo Mennotti, William Walton, Sandy Wilson, Julian Slade, Adler-Ross, Stravinsky, David Diamond, Roy Harris, Alan Hovhaness, Ernest Krenek, Deaths: Wilhelm Furtwangler (GER), Clemens Krauss (AUS), Oskar Straus (AUS), Charles Ives, Toscanini retires, first annual Jazz festival at Newport RI, Quincy Porter concerto, Popular songs: “Hernando’s Hideaway” “Mister Sandman” “Young at Heart” “Three Coins in the Fountain” “Hey, There” “Rock Around the Clock” “Shake Rattle and Roll” “Earth Angel” “Sh-Boom” “That’s All Right”, SCIENCE: Robert Oppenheimer dismissed from government service and security clearance withdrawn, US tests hydrogen bomb at Bikini, USSR Central Observatory near Leningrad opened, Concern in Europe and America about fallout and radioactive waste, death of German aeronaut Hugo Eckener, death of Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, death of GER-USA physicist Fritz London, 100 known chemical elements, US submarine “Nautilus” converted to nuclear, Dr. Jonas E Salk starts inoculations against polio in Pittsburgh, Nobel Prize for Medicine Enders Weiler and Robbins for polio work, Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry for study of molecular forces, 1768 newspapers in US, Swiss musical clown Grock retires, death of British philanthropist Seebohm Rowntree, Independent Television Authority established in Britain, Eurovision network formed, 19 million US homes have televisions, Temple of Mithras excavated in London, Roger Bannister breaks 4 minute mile, Gordon Richards becomes first professional jockey to be knighted, US starts major domination of new technologies, Desert locust plague in Morocco - #14 million in crops destroyed, Philadelphia Athletics baseball moves to Kansas City, revenue for television surpasses radio, World Series first broadcast in color, Bulova watches tested on television thrown over Niagara falls, Top shows include “The Jackie Gleason Show” “Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan” and at #1 I Love Lucy, artists include Bill Haley and The Comets, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Spaniels, The Crew-Cuts, Barghoorn and Tyler show bacteria in rocks over 2 billion years old, Siege of Vietnam’s fortress Dien Bien Phu which is capatured by Viet Minh – French withdraw and Vietnam splits, South East Asia Treaty Organization formed, Disturbances in Cyprus and Greece over union, Geneva Conference divides Vietnam – start of Communist attempts to take South Vietnam, SEATO (South-East Asia) seeks to limit Communism 1955 Warsaw Pact signed, Army officers seize power from Argentinian president Peron, Two hurricanes hit Connecticut, Hurricanes hit Mexico, Monsoon flood in India, flood in Australia, Brown v. Board * Eisenhower dines with President McKay, Aug - Hurricane Connie then Hurricane Diane dumps 19 inches of rain in NC, Aug - 38 vacationers killed in PA from hurricane Connie, Sep- Hurricane Hunter plane crashes while investigating Hurricane Janet in Caribbean, Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Dandridge nominated for best actress, Iceland declares independence from Denmark, US Civil Rights movement begins, movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NAM) in Indonesia, Warsaw Pact signed, Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", Nabokov's "Lolita", death of Austrian writer Alfred Polgar, death of German novelist and 1929 Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, death of German physicist and 1921 Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein, death of German painter Max Pechstein, death of English physician and scientist Alexander Fleming, death of French painter Maurice Utrillo, first sighting of Monster of Lough Shanakever in Ireland – donkeylike, USSR decreed end of war with Germany, Malenkov resigns – succeeded by NA Bulganin, Italy W Germany and France establish European Union Churchill resigns – succeeded by Anthony Eden, Chou En-lai visits Rangoon, Giovanni Gronchi elected President of Italy, Germany becomes NATO member, The Vienna Treaty restores Austria’s independence, Bulganin and Khrushchev visit Yugoslavia and E Germany, railroad and dock strikes in Britain, Peron resigns from Argentinian presidency, President Eisenhower has heart attack, Attlee retires from leadership of British Labour Party and is succeeded by Hugh Gaitskell, Raids on Israel/Jordan border increase, Shah of Persia and Empress Soraya visit Germany, death of Cordell Hull, death of Walter White US civil rights leader, AFL and CIO merge – new president George meany, Boycott of segregated busses in Montgomery, President Eisenhower appoints John M Harlan to the Supreme Court, WRITERS: Anouilh, TE Lawrence (posth), Sean O’Casey, Sartre, Evelyn Waugh, Mackinlay Kantor, Joyce Cary, Agatha Christie, Richard Church, Julian Green, Graham Greene, John Lehmann, Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita), Kay Thompson, Ugo Betti, Arthur Miller, Ilya Ehrenburg, Jean Genet, SN Behrman and Harold Rome, J Lawrence and RE Lee (Inherit the Wind), William Inge, Christopher Fry, Sloan Wilson, John O’Hara, Herman Wouk, Rudolf Flesch, C Hoffmann (Shakespeare = Marlowe theory), Walter Lippmann, HJ Patton, Werner Keller, Klein and Goldberger, Edmund Wilson, Deaths Paul Claudel (FRA), TE Lawrence, Theodor Pliever (GER), Alfred Polgar (AUS), Thomas Mann, James Agee (USA), Robert E Sherwood, Ortega y Gasset (ESP), Public libraries in US tops 8400, ART: Bernard Buffet, De Chirico, Lucien Contaud, Joseph Glasco, George Grosz, Pietro Annigoni, Salvador Dali, Kokoschka, deaths, Karl Hofer (GER), Fernand Leger (FRA), Max Pechstein (GER), deaths of Yves Tanguy (FRA), Maurice Utrillo (FRA), Picasso exhibition in European cities, “The New Decade” Exhibition of Modern Art in New York, London airport butildings designed by Frederick Gibberd, Films: “Smiles of a Summer Night” (Ingmar Bergman), “Les Grandes Manoeuvres”, “Marty” (Ernest Borgnine, “The Rose Tattoo” “The Seven Year Itch” “RIfifi” “Richard III” (Laurence Olivier), MUSIC: Werner Egk, Prokofiev, Michael Tippett, Rolf Liebermann, Adler and Ross (Damn Yankees), Cole Porter, Ernst Krenek, George Antheil, Darius Malhaud, Walter Piston, deaths: Frieda Hempel (GER-USA), Arthur Honegger (SWI), Charlie “Bird” Parker, The rebuilt E German State Opera House opens, Papal Encyclical of “Musicae sacrae”, popular songs: “The Yellow Rose of Texas” “Davy Crockett” “Rock Around the Clock” “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing” “Whatever Lola Wants” “Sixteen Tons” “Tutti-Frutti” “Maybellene” “Bo Diddley” “Why Do Foold Fall in Love” “The Great Pretender” , SCIENCE: Ultra high frequency waves produced at MIT, Automatically generated power first used in the US, Dorothy Hodgkin discovers liver extract for treating pernicious anemia (B-12), Frederick Sanger determines molecular structure of insulin, Albert Einstein dies, death of Alexander Fleming, Bundy Hall Strong and Wentorf report on artificial creation of diamonds, death of French fashion designer Jacques Fath, “Sugar” Ray Robinson wins world boxing championship, 82 die in a disaster at the Le Mans car race, Deutsche Lufthansa Airlines resumes service, Commercial TV begins broadcasting in Britain, Duke of Edinburgh announces award scheme for young people, Universal Copyright Convention takes effect, US and USSR announce they will launch earth satellites in the International Geophysical Year (1957-8), Gunsmoke debuts on CBS, top shows include “The $64,000 Question” “The Ed Sullivan Show” “Disneyland” and “The Jack Benny Program”, artists include Bill Haley & the Comets, Frank Sinatra, The Penguins, The Platters, Fats Domino, Church college in HI opens, President McKay visits South Pacific, Bern Switzerland Temple opened, Velcro patented, Fighting in Israel, Warsaw Pace formed in opposition to NATO, rebellion in Argentina, EOKA – Greek Cypriot organization begins terrorist activities in Cyprus, Israel raids Egyptian and Surian borders, Baghdad Pact signed by many middle-east countries, Bandung Conference among 29 Asian and African nations, Peaceful use of atomic energy discussed at Geneva conference, exile of Peron with general strike and armed rebellion, 1956 Kimberly Coast, AUS cyclone, Suez Crisis – Britain and France attempt to regain control, but Egypt too strong, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan gain independence, Soviet troops invade Hungary and quash revolt, Cyclone hits Antilles, Blizzard and gale over France – England to Siberia, Typhoon Wanda hits China * Elder Benson campaigns for Eisenhower Mar - St. Patrick's Day storm hits Boston with 20 inches of snow, "My Fair Lady" debuts on Broadway, Sammy Davis Jr. debuts on Broadway, Ampec Corporation demonstrates first practical VCR, USSR represses rebellions in Hungary and Poland, Early computer languages developed, death of German painter Emil Nolde, death of American painter Lyonel Feininger, death of German philosopher Ludwig Klages, death of English writer Max Beerbohm, death of German writer Bertolt Brecht, death of actor Bela Lugosi from Hungary – buried in Dracula cape, Sudan proclaimed independent democratic republic, Tito meets Nasser in Cairo and visits Moscow, Jordan and Israel accept UN truce proposals – King Hussein of Jordan dismisses British General JB Glubb – cease-fires arranged between Israel and Lebanon/Syria/Jordan – Israeli troops invade Sinai Peninsula – Anglo-French ultimatum to Egypt and Israel calls for cease-fire – US sends aid to Israel, Eisenhower and Eden issue Declaration of Washington, At the 20th Soviet Communist Party Conference Khrushchev denounces Stalin’s policy, Pakistan becomes Islamic republic, Archbishop Makarios transported from Cyprus to the Seychelles, Bulganin and Khrushchev visit Britain, Nasser elected President of Egypt – US and Britain inform Egypt that they will not participate in financing Aswan High Dam 0 Nasser seizes Suez Canal – British and French nationals leave Egypt – Dulles plan on Suez rejected by Nasser – Anglo-French forces bomb Egyptian airfields – US and USSR pressures effect cease fire – French and British troops withdraw and UN fleet clears Suez Canal, Cardinal Wyszynski releasef from prison, Cardinal Mindszenty released, Soviet troops march into Hungary – UN Security Council’s request vetoed by USSR – UN General Assembly censures USSR – martial law and mass arrests in Hungary, Dwight D Eisenhower reelected with Richard M Nixon as vice president and Democratic congress, Anthony Eden leaves London to recuperate in Jamaica – RA Butler named Deputy Prime Minister, Japan admitted to UN, Nehru visits Bonn – Nehru-Tito-Nasser conference held in Yugoslavia, King Paul I and Queen Frederika of Greece visit Bonn, Tito and Khrushchev meet in the Crimea, President Eisenhower appoints William J Brennan to the Supreme Court, Martin Luther King emerges as leader of campaign for desegregation, Fidel Castro lands in Cuba with small armed force to overthrow dictator Fulgencio Batista, Victor Riesel US columnist blinded by acid thrown by a gangster – four months later labor racketeer Johnny Dio indicted for conspiracy with six others, WRITE: Anouilh, John Hersey, John Osborne, Terence Rattigan, Angus Wilson, Felicien Marceau, Malaparte, Goodrich and Hackett (Anne Frank drama), Lampedusa, William Brinkley, Grace Metalious (Peyton Place), John F Kennedy, Edwin O’Connor, Talbot F Hamlin, Paddy Chayevsky, Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame), Toynbee, Pollock and Weber, Norman St. John-Stevas, WH Whyte, Wilkins and Moore, Harold Acton, Lord Beaverbrook, WS Churchill, AJ Ayer, Jean Mouroux, Colin Wilson, Karl Mannheim Deaths: Max Beerbohm, Walter de la Mare, HL Mencken, Bertolt Brecht, Louis Bromfield (USA), Lucie Hoflich (GER), Gottfried Been, Leo Baeck, Alfred Kinsey (USA), English Stage Company at Royal Court Theater London Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble visits England, ART: John Bratby, Lynn Chadwick, Barbara Hepworth, Richard Lippold, Eero Saarinen, Jorn Uzton, Bernard Buffet, Fabrizio Clerici, Deaths: Lyonel Feininger (USA), Jackson Pollock (USA), Emil Nolde, FILMS: “The Sevevnth Seal” (Ingmar Bergman) “Baby Doll” “Nuit et Brouillard” “War and Peace” “The Man with the Golden Arm” “Romeo and Juliet” “Around the World in 80 Days” “The King and I” “The Ten Commandments” “Lust for Life”, MUSIC: Jean Martinon, Humphrey Searle, Hans Werner Henze, Herbert von Karajan, Stravinsky, Bernstein (Candide), Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (My Fair Lady), Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, William Bergama, Deaths: Guido Cantelli (ITA), Walter Gieseking (GER), Alexander Gretchaninoff (RUS), Erich Kleiber (AUS), Elvis Presley gains in popularity, Maria Callas the US soprano makes debut in New York, popular songs: “Blue Suede Shoes” “Around the World in 80 Days” “Hound Dog” “I Could Have Danced All Night” “On the Street Where You Live” “Que Sera Sera” “Don’t Be Cruel” “Poor People of Paris”, “Long Tall Sally” “Don’t Be Cruel” “Be-Bop-A Lula” SCIENCE: Neutrino produced at Los Alamos Labs, Antineutron discovered by Cork Lambertson Piccioni and Wenzel, “Dido” reactor opened in England, FW Muller develops the ion microscope, Bell Telephone develops “visual telephone” Transatlantic cable telephone service inaugurated, MD Ross and ML Lewis reach height of 22.8 miles in balloon, four new antibiotics tested in US, Oral vaccine developed against polio by Albert Sabin, British bank interest rate raised to highest rate since 1932, first CND Aldermaston march, Prince Ranier of Monaco marries Grace Kelly, “Rock and Roll” dance in vogue, Olympic games at Melbourne, Palace of Emperor Diocletian excavated in Yugoslavia, “Andrea Doria” sinks after collision with “Stockholm” off Nantucket, death of US athlete Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias, death of US founder of IBM Thomas J Watson, death of Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack), death of US comedian Fred Allen, New York Coliseum opens, Rocky Marciano retires undefeated from boxing and Floyd Patterson takes new title, The Wizard of Oz first shown on TV, top tv includes “General Electric Theater” and “December Bride” artists include Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, The Platters, Meteorite impact and dinosaur extinction linked – not taken seriously until 1980s, Runcorn publishes on polar wandering and continental drift, Los Angeles Temple opens, first student stake organized, British withdraws troops in Suez Canal zone because Britain refuses to fund Aswan High Dam – Egypt nationalizes canal, Israel attacks Egypt – Israel agrees to cease fire but Egypt won’t and Britain and France attacks. UN takes control of Suez, Soviet troops crush Hungarian uprising, Anglo-French force occupies Suez, Khrushchev denounces Stalin, Anti-Russian uprising in Hungary crushed, Nasser elected president of Egypt, France recognizes independence of Morocco and Tunisia 1957 Ghana becomes first sub-Saharan country to become independent, Sputnik launched, Treaty of Rome ushers in EEC, Hurricane hits Cameron LA, Earthquake hits Mexico City * Mamie Eisenhower undergoes surgery – is prayed for by General Authorities and she starts healing, Senator Kennedy meets President McKay and discuss politics, but McKay is not impressed at the time, Mar - Alaskan Earthquake measures 8.2, causes tsunami in HI, Apr - Dust devil in MA lifts children into air, May - Cancelled check from Kansas City found in Ottumwa, IA (200 mi) after tornado, Jun - East St. Louis, IL receives 16.5 inches of rain in 24 hours, Jun - Hurricane hits Cameron, LA, Quakes in Mongolia and Turkey, Asian flu pandemic kills 4 million worldwide, Eisenhower enforces desegregation in Little Rock, AR, Sputnik circles the earth, Atlas Shrugged published by Rand, Mexican artist Diego Rivera dies, Sputnik, death of French designer Christian Dior, death of Finnish composer John Sibelius, death of Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, death of Hungarian admiral and politician Nicolaus von Horthy, death of Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Chou En-lai visits Moscow, Anthony Eden resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain and is succeeded by Harold Macmillan, President Eisenhower formulates “Eisenhower Doctrine” for protection of Middle Eastern nations from Communist aggression, Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula and hand over Gaza strip to UN forces – Jammarskjold visits Nasser – UN reopens Suez Canal to navigation – US resumes aid to Israel – King Hussein proclaims martial law in Jordan, Gromyko becomes USSR Foreign Minister 0 Molotov Malenkov Spekilov and Zhukov sacked, Eisenhower and Macmillan hold Bermuda conference, “The Six” sign Rome Treaty beginning of Common Market, Archbishop Makarios released, Britain explodes thermonuclear bomb in central Pacific, Franco announces Spanish monarchy will be restored on his death, Internation Atomic Energy Agency established, death of King Haakon VII of Norway – succeeded by son Olaf V, Queen Elizabeth visits Canada and the US and addresses UN General Assembly, death of Nicolaus von Horthy ex-regent of Hungary, death of French statesman Edouard Heriot, death of US Senator Joseph McCarthy, Teamsters Union expelled from AFL-CIO when Jimmy Hoffa refuses to expel criminals and union refuses to expel Hoffa, Eisenhower appoints Charles E Whittaker to Supreme Court, WRITE: Richard Mason, Albert Camus, Jonathan Griffin, William Faulkner, Nevil Shute, John Braine, James Gould Cozzens, C Day Lewis, Ketty Fring, Jack Kerouac (On The Road), Iris Murdoch, Roger Vailland, Samuel Beckett, Robert Bolt, John Osborne, Eugene O’Neill (posth), William Saroyan, Gore Vidal, William Inge, Dr.. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat), Robert Paul Smith, Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged), Bernard Malamud, Trevor Huddleston, VP Menon, Richard Hoggart, Kathleen Kenyon, Arthur Bryant, AJ Ayer, Fred Hoyle, Walther Hofer, Deaths: Sholem Asch (Jewish), Kathe Dorsch (GER), Curzio Malaparte (ITA), Dorothy L Sayers (ENG) Sacha Guitry (FRA), Sir Lawrence Olivier receives honorary doctorate from Oxford, New Cambridge Modern History begins publication, ART: Chagall, Carlo Levi, Kenneth Clark, Graham Sutherland, HG Adam, LE Corbusier, Deaths: Constantin Brancusi (ROM), Diego Rivera (MEX), Max Ophuls (FRA-GER), Charles Pathe (FRA), Erich von Stroheim (AUS) Pavel Tchelitchev, Frank Kupka, Humphrey Bogart (USA), Films: “A King in New York” (Chaplin), “The Bridge on the River Kway” “The Prince and the Showgirl” (Olivier and Monroe), “Bonjour Tristesse” “Love in the Afternoon” “Twelve Angry Men” (Henry Fonda), MUSIC: Werner Egk, Wolfgang Fortner, Carl Orff, William Walton, Hindemith, Benjamin Britten, Idlebrando Pizetti, Francis Poulenc, Stravinsky, John Gardener, Leonard Bernstein(West Side Story), Meredith Willson (The Music Man), Hilding Rosenberg, Deaths: Ralph Benatzky (AUS), Erich Worlgang Korngold (AUS), Othmar Schoeck (SWI), Jean Sibelius, Beniamino Gigli (ITA), Arturo Toscanini, Popular Songs: “Love Letters in the Sand” “Young Love” “Tonight” “Maria” “Seventy-Six Trombones”, “Jailhouse Rock” “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On” “That’ll Be The day” “Bye Bye Love” “Great Balls of Fire” SCIENCE: USSR launches Sputnik I and II, Giberellin isolated, Nobelium discovered, death of Frederick Lindemann Lord Cherwell, death of Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga, death of US mathematician John Von Neumann, death of US physicist Irving Langmuir, death of US polar explorer Admiral Richard E Byrd, International Geophysical Year, Mackinac Straits Bridge in MI becomes world’s longest suspension bridge, Fort Salmanassar in Nimrud-Kalash excavated, death of Christian Dior, death of The Aga Khan, Wolfenden Report on homosexuality and prostitution published in Britain, British bank interest rate raised, Desegregation crisis in Little Rock – troops forestall violence, Regular London-Moscow air service started, Tidal Wave follows hurricane Audrey into coasts of Texas and LA leaving 530 dead or missing, Major Hohn Glenn sets speed record in jet, New York Giants moves to San Francisco and Brooklyn Dodgers to LA, Bobby Fischer age 13 becomes world chess champion, “beat” and “beatnik” take hold to describe “Beat Generation” described in Kerouac’s “On The Road”, Leave it to Beaver premieres, Charles Van Doren wins $129 million on “Twenty One” Top tv includes “The Danny Thomas Show” “Tales of Wells Fargo” “Have Gun Will Travel” and “I’ve Got a Secret” “I Love Lucy” goes off the air, artists include Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline, Harry Belafante, Crick proposes RNA and DNA functions, Elder Spencer W. Kimball undergoes throat surgery for cancer, Treaty of Rome forms European Economic Community with BEL ITA FRA LUX WGER NET, Reports of a goatman in Maryland, Treaty of Rome establishes EEC, Race riots in southern United States, First Soviet and US artificial satellites, Guerrilla activity in Cuba under Castro against Batista, 1958 Lituya Bay (AK) mega tsunami, AK quakes , silicon chip invented, Independence for Zaire, Nigeria, Somalia begins until 1960, Charles de Gaulle president of France, heart pacemaker developed, Blizzard hits Allentown PA, Cholera and Smallpox in Pakistan, Typhoon in Japan * Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs for Eisenhowers, Start of Great Chinese Famine killing 20-43 million by 1961, Feb - Heavy snow and zero visibility in Gulf of Mexico, Apr - 97 inches of rain falls in 4 hours in Australia, Apr - 2500 gallon tank blown 1 mile in FL tornado, Jun - First tornado seen on Doppler radar Directory: lifeboat -> PEACH-PROGRESS -> alreadyDone lifeboat -> February 2010 vol. 2: 93 lifeboat -> October 2005 vol. 2: 42 lifeboat -> The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund lifeboat -> Selsey rnli's Lifeboat Week ended on a high note when the weather held fair for launch day lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station june 2006 vol. 2: 50 newbiggin’S 155th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station july 2009 vol. 2: 87 newbiggin’S 158th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station april 2007 vol. 2: 60 newbiggin’S 156th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station march 2010 vol. 2: 94 newbiggin’S 159th year of lifesaving PEACH-PROGRESS -> 1800 earthquake in California est at 6 Download 334.74 Kb. 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