- Oct 14 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia
- Oct 14 Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
Event of Interest
Oct 16 Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana)
- Oct 19 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
- Oct 19 Dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury is published in the US
- Oct 22 Laos gains full independence from France
- Oct 23 France grants Laos' sovereignty
- Oct 23 German FR applies to NATO
- Oct 25 Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die
- Oct 26 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia
- Oct 29 A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns
Nobel Prize
Oct 30 Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
Event of Interest
Nov 5 Terence Rattigan's "Sleeping Prince" premieres in London
Event of Interest
Nov 12 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel
Event of Interest
Nov 19 US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
- Nov 20 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH)
Bare Bones of the Great Ape-Man Hoax
Nov 21 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax
- Nov 25 Earthquake and tsnunami strike Honshu, Japan
- Nov 26 Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
- Nov 29 American Airlines begins 1st regular commercial NY-LA air service
- Nov 30 Edward Mutesa II, kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda
- Nov 30 French parachutist under Colonel De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
Republican Party
Dec 3 US President Dwight Eisenhower criticizes Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party
- Dec 6 Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14
- Dec 7 Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
- Dec 8 Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations in New York
- Dec 9 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
Historic Invention
Dec 12 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
- Dec 16 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower & 161 reporters)
- Dec 16 Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A
- Dec 23 René Coty elected President of the Republic and the French Union on the 13th ballot [1]
- Dec 24 Two fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 in Czechoslovakia
- Dec 24 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
- Dec 25 Avalanche of lava kills 150 from Ruapehu volcano in New Zealand
- Dec 25 KNEV (95.5 The Vibe) radio broadcaster in Reno, Nevada begins broadcasting
- Dec 31 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president