BRITAIN AND THE WORLD SINCE 1953
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| Jan3 | Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland |
| Jan6 | Gibson patents the Flying V guitar |
| Jan8 | Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14. |
| Feb1 | The first successful US satellite Explorer 1 is launched. It will study the earths magnetosphere and the Van Allen Belts |
| Feb6 | The Munich Air Disaster that led to the deaths of 21 passengers including 7 Manchester United players |
| Feb17 | Pope Pius X11 declares St Clara the patron saint of TV |
| Feb25 | CND - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is launched under the presidency of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. The first protest march by CND left Hyde Park, London, for Aldermaston, Berkshire on 4th April |
| Mar2 | Sir Vivian Fuchs completes the first crossing of Antarctica by land. |
| Mar23 | The last debutantes were presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace |
| Mar24 | Elvis Presley reports to the Memphis Draft Board |
| Mar27 | Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier and first secretary of the Communist Party. |
| Apr3 | Castro's revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana |
| Apr4 | The daughter of the actress lana Turner stabs her mothers lover to death. It was later ruled that the murder was self defence |
| Apr6 | Arnold Palmer who later became one of the best golfers in history won his first major golf tournament, the US Masters in Augusta. |
| May2 | A State of Emergency is declared in Aden |
| May23 | The Hovercraft is unvieled by its inventor Christopher Cockerell |
| Jun1 | Iceland extends its fishing limits to 12 miles |
| Jun16 | Imre Nagy, Hungarian prime minister during the 1956 uprising was hanged for treason. On the same date in 1989, he was reburied after a funeral that brought at least a quarter of a million people on to Budapest's streets. |
| Jun29 | Brazil beat Sweden 5-2 in the sixth World Cup Final held in Stockholm |
| Jul6 | The US government decides that Alaska should become the 49th state. It achieves that status on 3rd Jan 1959 |
| Jul10 | First Parking Meters installed in Britain |
| Jul14 | A left wing military coup in Iraq leads to the murder of King Feisal 1 |
| Jul24 | The first life peerage is created in Britain |
| Jul26 | Charles the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth 11 is created the Prince of Wales |
| Aug3 | The nuclear powered submarmine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water. |
| Aug18 | Lolita by V.Nabokov is published |
| Aug31 | Thirteen people are arrested after a second night of rioting between black and white youths in Notting Hill. The riots continue in the following nights culminating in widespread damage to housing on September 1 |
| Oct1 | The first American Express card is issued |
| Oct16 | First show of TV programme Blue Peter on BBC. |
| Oct28 | Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, was elected Pope and took the title John XXIII. He succeeded Pius X11 who died on October 9 |
| Dec9 | The anti-Communist John Birch Society was formed in the USA. |
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