Historical Events
Television Premiere
"60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
Mike Wallace
Harry Reasoner
- "That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show
Event of Interest
NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
Gil Hodges
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Famous Deaths
- Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67
- Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47