- Sep 21 Eelco Van Kleffens appointed President of the ninth session of the UN General Assembly
Election of Interest
Sep 25 Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
- Sep 25 Indians win AL record 111 games
- Sep 26 Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru during a typhoon, 1,153 people die
- Sep 27 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush
- Sep 27 School integration begins in Washington, D.C. & Baltimore Md public schools
- Sep 30 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy
- Oct 1 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
- Oct 2 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal, India
- Oct 3 "Father Knows Best" premieres
Conference of Interest
Oct 5 10th General Conference on Weights and Measures opens, will define the Kelvin as the primary unit of temperature (after William Thomson, Lord Kelvin) [1]
- Oct 5 Hurricane Hazel forms in the Caribbean, killing 400-1000 people in the Bahamas and Haiti
- Oct 7 Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of the Muslim Brothership, arrested in Egypt
Event of Interest
Oct 10 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops
- Oct 11 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam
- Oct 13 Robert Paul Smith and Max Shulman's "Tender Trap" premieres in NYC
- Oct 14 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
- Oct 15 Hurricane Hazel makes landfall in the US in North Carolina as a category 4 hurricane, 195 die in US and Canada
- Oct 17 Philadelphia Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21)
- Oct 18 Hurricane Hazel becomes most severe to ever hit the US, killing 195 in US and Canada
- Oct 18 Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.
- Oct 19 Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops depart
- Oct 19 First ascent of Cho Oyu, sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres
- Oct 21 Indonesian troops land in New Guinea
- Oct 22 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Oct 23 Britain, France & US agree to end occupation of Germany
- Oct 23 Pakistan Governor-General Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament
Event of Interest
Oct 24 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States' support to South Vietnam
Event of Interest
Oct 27 President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm
- Oct 28 N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker" premieres in NYC
Nobel Prize
Oct 28 Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway
Event of Interest
Oct 29 Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser disbands the Muslim Brotherhood
Election of Interest
Nov 1 General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba
- Nov 1 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
- Nov 1 The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence against France.
Event of Interest
Nov 1 US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns
- Nov 2 Charles Diggs Jr is elected Michigan's 1st black congressman to the House of Representatives
Election of Interest
Nov 2 Strom Thurmond is the 1st senator elected by write-in vote (South Carolina)
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Nov 10 "Marine Corps War Memorial" unveiled in Arlington County, Virginia, dedicated to US Marine Corps who died in defense of US since 1775 (inspired by 1945 Iwo Jima photo of servicemen raising US flag)
- Nov 12 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor is closed
Event of Interest
Nov 12 Lee Kuan Yew and others form the People's Action Party (PAP) in Singapore to work towards self-rule in Singapore
- Nov 14 Egyptian President Naguib resigns, state of emergency declared
- Nov 15 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begin as SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) inaugurates DC-6B service between Los Angeles, California and Copenhagen, Denmark, via Greenland and Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Nov 22 Humane Society (US) forms in Washington, D.C.
- Nov 23 For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash
- Nov 24 Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened
- Nov 24 France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria
- Nov 27 Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury
- Nov 28 1st pro football game in The Netherlands
- Nov 30 Ann Hodges is bruised by a meteor at Sylacauga, Alabama in first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human
- Nov 30 John Strydom succeeds D. F. Malan as premier of South Africa
- Dec 1 Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
- Dec 2 Taiwan (ROC) & US sign the Mutual Defense Treaty, preventing Mainland China (PRC) from taking Taiwan between 1955-1979
- Dec 2 US Senate censures Joeseph McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor & disrepute"
- Dec 4 The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
Event of Interest
Dec 6 Simone de Beauvoir receives the Prix Goncourt prize in French literature
- Dec 7 Japanese government of Joshida resigns
Event of Interest
Dec 8 Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed" premieres in NYC
- Dec 10 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its applications
- Dec 10 USAF Lt Col John Stapp travels at 632 mph in a rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
- Dec 11 USS Forrestal aircraft carrier christened in Newport News, Virginia
Event of Interest
Dec 13 Elsa Schiaparelli's House of Schiaparelli at Place Vendôme in Paris closes
- Dec 15 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
- Dec 15 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
- Dec 17 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
- Dec 23 The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
- Dec 24 Council for the Protection of Children forms in Netherlands
- Dec 24 Laos gains its independence
- Dec 26 "The Shadow" airs for last time on radio
- Dec 29 Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being