Events 201 - 400 of 590
Event of Interest
May 22 US President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- May 25 1st atomic cannon electronically fired at Frenchman Flat, Nevada
- May 25 1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
- May 25 Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row
- May 26 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
- May 27 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
- May 28 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
Tenzing Norgay on the Summit of Mount Everest
May 29 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition
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Event of Interest
May 29 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire (to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II)
Mehmed the Conqueror
French Open Men's Tennis
May 30 French Championships Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall of Australia wins his 2nd Grand Slam title, beating American Vic Seixas 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
Ken Rosewall
Vic Seixas
- May 30 French Championships Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-2, 6-4 for the 2nd leg of her Grand Slam
- May 31 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
- May 31 WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
- Jun 1 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Jun 1 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Royal Coronation
Jun 2 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England
Elizabeth II
- Jun 3 KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins
- Jun 4 Pittsburgh pirates trade outfielder Ralph Kiner & catcher Joe Garagiola to Chicago Cubs
- Jun 5 Denmark adopts a new constitution
- Jun 5 US Senate rejects China People's Republic membership to UN
- Jun 7 1st color network telecast in compatible color (Boston Massachusetts)
- Jun 7 Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants
- Jun 7 WDAU (now WYOU) TV channel 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (CBS) begins
- Jun 8 Cluster of 6 tornadoes touches down in Flint, Michigan killing 113
- Jun 8 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
Event of Interest
Jun 9 "Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater" last airs on NBC-TV
Milton Berle
- Jun 13 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
- Jun 13 Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia
- Jun 13 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
- Jun 13 KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
- Jun 14 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
Event of Interest
Jun 14 Elvis Presley graduates from L. C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis Presley
- Jun 14 Military coup by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
- Jun 14 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
- Jun 15 Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 & Browns 14-game losing streak
- Jun 15 NY Yankees first baseman Johnny Mize is 93rd MLB player to get 2,000 hits
- Jun 15 NYC Transit Authority forms
- Jun 15 WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Jun 16 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, NY Yankees lose ending an 18 game winning streak and also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
- Jun 17 Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)
- Jun 17 Riots in East Germany for reunification
Event of Interest
Jun 17 US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
Ethel Rosenberg
- Jun 18 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
- Jun 18 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
- Jun 18 Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3
- Jun 18 3rd Berlin International Film Festival: "The Wages of Fear" wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
- Jun 19 Albert W Dent elected president of US National Health Council
- Jun 19 WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Jun 19 WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Jun 20 LPGA Western Golf Open Women's Golf, Capital City Club: Louise Suggs defeats Patty Berg, 6 & 5 in the final
- Jun 24 KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Jun 25 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
- Jun 25 86°F in Anchorage, Alaska
- Jun 26 KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
Event of Interest
Jun 26 Lavrentiy Beria, one of the trio of Russian leaders after Stalin's death and the former secret police chief, is ousted from power and arrested
Lavrentiy Beria
- Jun 27 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
US Women's Golf Open
Jun 28 US Open Women's Golf, CC of Rochester: Betsy Rawls wins an 18-hole Sunday playoff by 6 strokes over runner-up Jackie Pung
Betsy Rawls
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Vic Seixas wins his only Wimbledon singles title with a 9-7, 6-3, 6-4 over Dane Kurt Nielsen
Vic Seixas
Kurt Nielsen
- Jul 4 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly wins 3rd leg of her Grand Slam beating fellow American Doris Hart 8-6, 7-5
- Jul 4 Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary
- Jul 5 WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
- Jul 5 Phillies pitcher Robin Roberts hurls his 28th consecutive MLB complete game in a 2-0 win over Pittsburgh
- Jul 7 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Birmingham CC: Walter Burkemo wins 2 & 1 from Felize Torza in the Tuesday final; his lone major title
Event of Interest
Jul 7 Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador
Che Guevara
- Jul 8 US stops aid to Persia
- Jul 9 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
- Jul 9 Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games
- Jul 10 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: In his only Open Championship appearance, Ben Hogan prevails by 4 strokes over Dai Rees, Antonio Cerdá, Peter Thomson, Frank Stranahan
- Jul 12 KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 13 Battle of the Kumsong River begins - last major battle of the Korean war
Event of Interest
Jul 14 First US national monument dedicated to a black American, to preserve the boyhood home of agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver in Newton County, Missouri [1]
George Washington Carver
- Jul 14 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
- Jul 15 ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names
- Jul 16 KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast
- Jul 19 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Jul 19 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 20 USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations
- Jul 20 The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency
- Jul 24 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 25 NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
- Jul 26 Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
Event of Interest
Jul 26 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Korean War Ends
Jul 27 North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel
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- Jul 27 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
- Jul 27 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, Bill Klem and Tom Connolly inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
- Jul 29 US bomber shot down by Soviet Air Defence Forces in the Sea of Japan, north of Vladivostok
- Jul 30 Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance
- Aug 1 California introduces sales tax (for education)
- Aug 1 Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
- Aug 1 KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
- Aug 1 KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, Oregon (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Aug 1 Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- Aug 1 Boston Red Sox pitcher Ben Flowers sets then MLB record of 8 consecutive games in relief
- Aug 2 Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
- Aug 2 KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
- Aug 3 Frank Blair becomes news anchor of "Today Show"
- Aug 4 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
- Aug 4 New York Yankees Vic Raschi sets MLB record for a pitcher by driving in 7 runs in a 15-0 win v Detroit
- Aug 5 Operation "Big Switch"; Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
Film Release
Aug 5 "From Here to Eternity" based on book by James Jones, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1954)
Burt Lancaster
Frank Sinatra
Event of Interest
Aug 6 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from military service in Korea; ends abbreviated season with .407 batting average
Ted Williams
- Aug 7 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
Georgy Malenkov
- Aug 8 US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact
- Aug 9 Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir fired
- Aug 12 Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic
- Aug 12 Heavy earthquake strikes the Ionian islands, 435 killed
- Aug 12 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
- Aug 13 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
- Aug 13 US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee
- Aug 14 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
- Aug 14 KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
Aug 15 General Omar Bradley leaves office as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after four years and retires from active military service
Omar Bradley
- Aug 16 KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
Event of Interest
Aug 16 Shah of Persia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Coup d'état
Aug 19 The democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project)
Mohammad Mosaddegh
- Aug 20 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in a CIA supported coup d'état
- Aug 20 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
- Aug 20 14th Venice Film Festival opens. No Golden Lion awarded
- Aug 21 Baseball player representatives Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiations with team owners
- Aug 21 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
- Aug 21 Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
- Aug 22 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returns to Tehran
- Aug 23 Braves' Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
- Aug 23 Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
- Aug 23 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
- Aug 23 KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Aug 23 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3")
- Aug 23 USSR performs nuclear test
- Aug 23 Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by winning Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten
Film Release
Aug 27 "Roman Holiday", starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert, is released
- Aug 28 "Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
- Aug 29 KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Aug 29 USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb
- Aug 31 KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Aug 31 WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
- Sep 1 Buck Baker takes lead with 10 laps remaining to win the Southern 500 at Darlington in the most competitive event in NASCAR Grand National history; four drivers swap lead a record 35 times
- Sep 1 101°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
- Sep 1 Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
- Sep 1 WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast
- Sep 1 WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins
- Sep 3 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
Event of Interest
Sep 3 French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
Francois Mitterrand
Election of Interest
Sep 6 Konrad Adenauer's CDU wins elections in German Federal Republic
Konrad Adenauer
Baseball Record
Sep 6 Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
Roy Campanella
- Sep 7 Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 7 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Tony Trabert beats fellow American Vic Seixas 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 to win his first of 5 major titles
Tony Trabert
Vic Seixas
- Sep 7 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Maureen Connolly becomes first female to achieve a Grand Slam; beats Doris Hart 6-2, 6-4
- Sep 8 "Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 performances
- Sep 8 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona
- Sep 9 WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 10 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"
- Sep 11 KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 11 WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 12 "Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 performances
- Sep 12 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team, defeating Milwaukee Braves 5-2. Brooklyn finishes season with record of 105-49.
- Sep 13 KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 13 Pitcher Bob Trice becomes the first black player for Philadelphia Athletics
- Sep 13 Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari retains Formula 1 World Drivers Championship although forced to retire (engine trouble) in season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; wins title by 6.5 points from Juan Manuel Fangio
Event of Interest
Sep 14 Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Malenkov
Nikita Khrushchev
Georgy Malenkov
Film Premier
Sep 16 1st movie in Cinemascope "The Robe" based on the book by Lloyd C. Douglas, directed by Henry Koster and starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons premieres
Richard Burton
- Sep 16 AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player
Ernie Banks
- Sep 19 "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 performances
- Sep 20 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
- Sep 21 KRDO TV channel 13 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Sep 22 Islamic uprising in Atjeh, Indonesia
- Sep 23 KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting