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Eisenhower Apologizes for Racial Insult
Oct 10 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 14 Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize, for his aid in resolving the Suez Crisis; the 1st Canadian to win the award [1]
#1 in the Charts
Oct 14 Everly Brothers' single "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1
Event of Interest
Oct 14 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne
- Oct 15 Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
British History
Oct 16 British Queen Elizabeth & her husband Prince Philip visit Williamsburg Virginia [1]
- Oct 16 USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space
- Oct 17 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit the White House
- Oct 17 Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed
Nobel Prize in Literature
Oct 17 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
- Oct 17 II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan
Jailhouse Rock Premieres
Oct 17 Musical film "Jailhouse Rock" starring Elvis Presley premieres in Memphis, Tennessee
The Frank Sinatra Show
Oct 18 "The Frank Sinatra Show" television variety/drama anthology series debuts on ABC; the singer-actor is given almost complete control of the program
Sports History
Oct 19 Montreal Canadien Maurice "Rocket" Richard, becomes the 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
- Oct 20 Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings without losing a wicket
Event of Interest
Oct 20 Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
Adenauer Re-elected
Oct 22 Konrad Adenauer re-elected Chancellor of West Germany
Murder of Interest
Oct 25 Cosa Nostra crime boss Albert Anastasia is murdered in a barber's chair in New York City, probably by fellow mobster Joe Gallo
- Oct 25 Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
Event of Interest
Oct 29 Hand grenade thrown from balcony in Israel's Knesset (Parliament) injures Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, and several others
Music Premiere
Oct 30 Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
- Oct 30 WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Oct 30 WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Nov 1 KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Nov 1 KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- Nov 1 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan, world longest suspension bridge between anchorages opens
- Nov 1 WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Nov 2 1st titanium mill opened at Toronto, Ohio
- Nov 2 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history
Space Dog Laika Launched to her Death
Nov 3 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space
- Nov 4 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
- Nov 5 Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½ cent soccer pool ticket
- Nov 6 Felix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France
- Nov 7 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- Nov 7 Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 7 WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
- Nov 8 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
- Nov 10 NFL Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh Steelers 24-0
- Nov 10 NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
- Nov 11 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde, San Francisco
Great Balls of Fire
Nov 11 Sun Record's release single "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis; sells a million copies in first ten day
Aaron NLMVP
Nov 14 Milwaukee Brave Hank Aaron wins NL MVP
- Nov 14 The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested
- Nov 15 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
All Eyes on Birthplace of British Rock 'n' Roll
Nov 16 BBC’s 1st pop music show, the "Six-Five Special", is broadcast from the tiny 2i’s Coffee Bar in London
Russell's Rebounds
Nov 16 Boson Celtics' center Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds as Boston beats Philadelphia Warriors, 111-89 at Boston Gardens
- Nov 16 University of Oklahoma Football NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing 7-0 to Notre Dame at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
- Nov 17 WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, West Virginia (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- Nov 18 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
- Nov 19 Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
Rope Dancers
Nov 20 Morton Wishengrad's dramatic play "Rope Dancers", starring Art Carney, Siobhán McKenna, and Theodore Bikel, premieres at Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 189 performances
Mantle AL MVP
Nov 22 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP for the 2nd time
Miles Davis Quintet
Nov 22 Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall, NYC
- Nov 22 Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
- Nov 25 US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
- Nov 26 WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Little Rock Crisis
Nov 27 US Army withdraws from Little Rock, Arkansas after Central High School integration
Look Homeward, Angel
Nov 28 "Look Homeward, Angel" play based on the book by Thomas Wolfe adapted by Ketti Frings and starring Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
Warren Spahn
Nov 28 Milwaukee Braves' future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn wins Cy Young Award
- Nov 29 NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers & Giants
President Sukarno
Nov 30 Assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno, kills 8
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Dec 1 Seminal rock band Buddy Holly & The Crickets make their "Ed Sullivan Show" debut, performing "That'll Be The Day" and "Peggy Sue"; singer Sam Cooke also performs after getting bumped due to time constraints on November 3rd - he sings "You Send Me" and “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons” [1] [2]
- Dec 2 1st US large scale nuclear power plant for peacetime use opens, Shippingport, Pennsylvania
- Dec 2 NFL Draft: Rice quarterback King Hill #1 pick by Chicago Cardinals
- Dec 2 Pacific Coast League franchises forced to relocate when Dodgers and Giants confirm their move to California for 1958 MLB season; Hollywood Stars move from LA to Salt Lake City; LA Angels move to Spokane, and San Francisco Seals transfer to Phoenix
- Dec 3 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
- Dec 4 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's, England)
- Dec 4 First edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
- Dec 5 NYC is first US city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
- Dec 5 President Sukarno of Indonesia expels all Dutch people.
- Dec 5 William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" premieres in NYC
- Dec 6 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
- Dec 6 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
- Dec 6 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
Sessions' 3rd Symphony
Dec 6 Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in Boston with Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony
- Dec 7 Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
The Sound of Jazz
Dec 8 CBS broadcasts "The Sound of Jazz", live from NYC: an all-star program featuring swing era and contemporary jazz artists, including Count Basie, Red Allen, Ben Webster;, Thelonious Monk, and Gerry Mulligan; highlight is the final collaboration of Billie Holiday and Lester Young on "Fine and Mellow"
- Dec 9 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
- Dec 10 Chinese physicists Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on parity laws, which created a major breakthrough in particle research
- Dec 12 Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
- Dec 12 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
- Dec 12 Willem J. Kolff and his team at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic removed the heart from a dog and replaced it with a pneumatic pump which kept the dog alive for 90 minutes, proving the viability of the artificial heart
Peyton Place
Dec 13 "Peyton Place" film based on the novel by Grace Metalious, directed by Mark Robson and starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange is released
- Dec 16 Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan
Alfredo Di Stéfano Wins
Dec 17 Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid forward Alfredo Di Stéfano wins award for best football player in Europe ahead of Englishmen Billy Wright and Duncan Edwards
The Nat King Cole Show
Dec 17 Last episode of "The Nat King Cole Show" airs on NBC, cancelled due to lack of national sponsorship
- Dec 17 The largest trade in NHL history at the time in terms of quantity; Chicago Black Hawks move Nick Mickoski, Jack McIntyre, Bob Bailey & Hec Lalonde to Detroit Red Wings for Earl Reibel, Billy Dea, Bill Dineen & Lorne Ferguson
- Dec 17 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
- Dec 18 World's first full scale nuclear power plant, for peacetime use only, begins to generate electricity at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania
Elvis Receives Draft Notice
Dec 20 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for national service
Cricket Debut
Dec 23 Test cricket debut for all-time great Australian wicketkeeper Wally Grout and future captain and coach Bobby Simpson, 1st Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
Ringo's First Drum Set
Dec 25 Liverpudlian teenager Richard Starkey (later better known as Ringo Starr) receives his first drum set aged 17
"Wild Strawberries"
Dec 26 Swedish film "Wild Strawberries" is released, written and directed by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, considered one of his best
- Dec 28 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
- Dec 28 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
- Dec 30 Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns
Event of Interest
Dec 31 AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
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