- Sep 12 Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary
- Sep 12 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon
Event of Interest
Sep 15 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
Event of Interest
Sep 16 French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
- Sep 17 Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
- Sep 17 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
- Sep 18 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
- Sep 21 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
- Sep 23 Australia's first passenger roll on/roll off diesel ferry, the MS Princess of Tasmania makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait
- Sep 26 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
- Sep 27 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
- Sep 28 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth
- Sep 29 Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop"
- Sep 29 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
- Oct 4 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
- Oct 6 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
Far Side of the Moon Revealed
Oct 7 Far side of Moon seen for the 1st time, courtesy of USSR's Luna 3 space probe
Election of Interest
Oct 8 Conservatives led by Harold Macmillan win the British general election
Event of Interest
Oct 9 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
- Oct 10 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
- Oct 10 Pan Am begins regular flights around the world
- Oct 12 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
Event of Interest
Oct 17 Queen Elizabeth II is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
Event of Interest
Oct 21 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York
Theater Premiere
Oct 28 Jean Genet's play "Les Negres" premieres in Paris
Historic Publication
Oct 29 "Asterix" is first published in the French magazine "Pilote" by Rene Goscinny, illustrated by Albert Uderzo
- Oct 31 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to USA
- Oct 31 USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam
Event of Interest
Nov 1 Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
- Nov 1 WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
- Nov 2 Charles Van Doren confesses that TV quiz show "Twenty-One" was fixed
- Nov 2 The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
Election of Interest
Nov 3 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election
Murder of Interest
Nov 15 Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capote book In Cold Blood)
- Nov 17 De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
- Nov 17 William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
- Nov 18 Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
- Nov 19 Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model
- Nov 20 UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
Catholic Encyclical
Nov 28 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum
Event of Interest
Dec 10 Novel Prize for Literature awarded to Sicilian writer Salvatore Quasimodo for his lyrical poetry
Historic Publication
Dec 11 Emilio G. Segrè publishes his discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959
- Dec 12 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
- Dec 13 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
- Dec 14 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus
- Dec 14 Joe B. Jordan in F-104C starfighter sets world altitude record, 31,513m
- Dec 16 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
- Dec 17 "On The Beach" is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
- Dec 19 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
- Dec 21 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
- Dec 21 Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
- Dec 22 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Dec 25 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
Event of Interest
Dec 25 Bishop Karol Wojtyla (future Pope John Paul II) celebrates outdoor Mass at midnight of Christmas morning to demonstrate the need for a Catholic church in the community of Nowa Huta
