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Event of Interest
May 11 Winston Churchill criticizes US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' domino theory
Winston Churchill
John Foster Dulles
- May 12 KUHT TV channel 8 (PBS) in Houston, TX, begins broadcasting
Baseball Record
May 13 NY Giants Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 HRs & a triple
Willie Mays
Boxing Title Fight
May 15 Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago
Rocky Marciano
Jersey Joe
- May 15 Osip Zadkine's monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
- May 16 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
- May 17 Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open
- May 17 Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
- May 18 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochran, USA)
- May 19 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
- May 21 French government of Mayer resigns
Event of Interest
May 22 US President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- May 22 Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4
- May 23 78th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
- May 23 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- May 24 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus
- 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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Tennis Open
May 30 52nd Men's French Championships: Ken Rosewall beats Victor Elias Seixas (6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2)
Ken Rosewall
- May 30 52nd Women's French Championships: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (6-2, 6-4)
- 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
Event of Interest
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 Pitts trades outfielder Ralph Kiner & 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 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
- 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
- Jun 9 "Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater" last airs on NBC-TV
- Jun 9 South African premier D. F. Malan visits Netherlands
- Jun 9 Worcester County tornado (94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless)
- Jun 11 "Amos 'n Andy" TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
- Jun 11 Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge
- 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 Johnny Mize is 93rd 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, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & 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 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
- Jun 23 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament
- 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
- Jun 26 Russian vice-premier/interior minister Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria arrested
- Jun 27 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
- Jun 28 8th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
- Jun 29 XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
- Jun 30 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured
- Jul 1 KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Jul 1 KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins
- Jul 3 67th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (9-7 6-3 6-4)
- Jul 4 60th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (8-6 7-5)
- Jul 4 Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary
- Jul 5 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
- Jul 5 WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
- Jul 7 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich
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 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees
- Jul 10 Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
- 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
- Jul 14 1st US National monument dedicated to a Negro-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
- Jul 26 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid
- Jul 26 40th Tour de France won by Louison Bobet of France
- Jul 27 North Korea and UN sign armistice
- 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 Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then 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 Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs and wins 15-0
- 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 Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military
Ted Williams
- Aug 7 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
- Aug 8 Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb
- 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 13 General Omar Bradley becomes US chief of staff
- 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
- Aug 16 KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
Event of Interest
Aug 16 Shah of Persia Mohammed 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 reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation
- 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 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
- Aug 22 Shah of Iran 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
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 1 101°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
- Sep 4 WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins
- Sep 4 WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 4 Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship
- Sep 5 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh, NC
- Sep 5 US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid
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
- Sep 7 73rd U.S. Men's National Championship: Tony Trabert beats Vic Seixas (6-3, 6-2, 6-3)
- Sep 7 67th U.S. Women's National Championship: Maureen Connolly 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 105-49
- Sep 13 KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 13 Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Philadelphia A's