Events in History
- Feb 25 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Mar 2 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declaring independence from France
- Apr 26 First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
- Jun 13 The last British troops leave the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt
- Sep 14 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton
- Oct 6 Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral Polio vaccine is ready for testing; it would soon supplant Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world
- Nov 5 Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis
- Nov 13 US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional
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- Jan 28 Science student later astronaut Neil Armstrong marries fellow student Janet Elizabeth Shearon in Wilmette, Illinois
- Mar 1 Media magnate Rupert Murdoch marries first wife Patricia Booker
- Mar 3 Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke (26) weds first wife Hazel Masterson (26) at Perth Trinity Church in Australia
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