Events in History
Events 301 - 361 of 361
- Oct 17 US & Britain sign accord for nuclear submarine bases
- Oct 18 In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
- Oct 19 France grants Mauritania independence
Event of Interest
Oct 19 Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in
Martin Luther King Jr.
John F. Kennedy
- Oct 24 Disaster on USSR's Baikonoer launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
- Oct 25 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
- Oct 25 Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
- Oct 27 AL admits LA & Washington to the league
- Oct 29 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
- Oct 30 Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
- Oct 30 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- Oct 31 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die
- Nov 1 Benelux treaty goes into effect
Historic Publication
Nov 2 Penguin Books cleared of obscenity for publishing DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
D. H. Lawrence
- Nov 3 Ivory Coast adopts constitution
Event of Interest
Nov 4 Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey discover first Homo habilis jaw fragments (OH 7) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Mary Leakey
Louis Leakey
- Nov 8 John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon who was the incumbent Vice President
How Britain Fell in Love with Lady Chatterley
Nov 10 Uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" finally goes on sale in the UK after a jury finds publisher Penguin Books not guilty in an obscenity trial
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Coup d'état
Nov 12 Coup against South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm fails
Ngô Đình Diệm
- Nov 12 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
- Nov 14 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
- Nov 14 Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo
- Nov 14 Riot due to school integration in New Orleans
- Nov 15 USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
- Nov 16 NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
- Nov 18 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
- Nov 19 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
- Nov 22 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
- Nov 23 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
- Nov 25 First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa
- Nov 25 Three of the four Mirabal sisters, opponents of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, are assassinated
- Nov 27 Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
- Nov 27 Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville, Congo
- Nov 28 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
- Nov 30 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
- Nov 30 Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC
- Dec 1 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
Scientific Discovery
Dec 2 Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus (Olduvai Hominid 9) in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Louis Leakey
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).
Willard Libby
- Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar for work on tissue grafting
- Dec 11 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
- Dec 11 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
- Dec 13 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
- Dec 14 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
- Dec 16 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
- Dec 17 Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres
- Dec 18 General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
- Dec 19 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)
- Dec 19 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
- Dec 20 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR
- Dec 20 The National Liberation Front, better known as the Viet Cong, is officially formed in South Vietnam
- Dec 23 Jan De Quay's Dutch government falls
- Dec 23 King Saud of Saudi Arabia takes power
- Dec 24 Dutch bishops question papacy values
- Dec 27 France performs nuclear test