BRITAIN AND THE WORLD SINCE 1953
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Jan1 | Farthing ceases to be legal tender |
Jan3 | An explosion occurs at a nuclear installation in Idaho Falls - the dead cannnot be buried for three weeks due to radioactive contamination |
USA severs diplomatic relations with Cuba | |
President Eisenhower delivers Farewell Address warning the nation of the "Military- Industrial Complex". | |
Jan8 | The largest post war spy ring is exposed in Britain |
Jan20 | John F.
Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the
United States. He was elected by the closest vote ever and was the youngest presidential nominee elected. (see 9th November 1960) |
Jan24 | U.S. B-52 bomber with two 24-megaton nuclear bombs crashed near Goldsboro, North Carolina |
Jan25 | President John Kennedy held the first presidential news conference to be televised live |
Feb5 | The Sunday Telegraph began publication. |
Feb8 | The crash of a Sabena airliner near Brussels kills the cream of US ice skaters |
Feb26 | Following the death of his father Hassan11 is pronounced as the King of morocco |
Mar6 | The comedian George Formby dies |
Mar8 | First US Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch |
Mar13 | Black & White £5 notes cease to be legal tender |
A Dam bursts on the Dneiper river in the USSR killing 145 people | |
Mar14 | New English Bible (New Testament) published |
Apr11 | The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem and ended on Dec15 when he was sentenced to death |
Apr12 | Soviet Union launched the first man into space; cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin was carried by the spacecraft Vostok I on a single orbit of the Earth in an 108-minute flight |
Apr17 | 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) with the aim of ousting the Communist regime of Fidel Castro |
Apr22 | Three French generals who oppose De Gaulle's policies in Algeria fail in a coup attempt |
Apr23 | Census: Population. England&Wales 46Million, Scotland 5.1M, NI 1.4M |
The Swedish warship Vasa which sank in Stockholm harbour in 1628 is salvaged | |
Apr27 | Sierra Leone gains independence |
May1 | Betting shops are legalised in Britain |
May5 | Alan Shepard became the first American in space in a 15-minute suborbital flight in a Mercury spacecraft |
May8 | The British traitor George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying. On October 22nd 1966 he escaped from Wormwood scrubs and was next seen in the USSR |
May16 | A military coup in South Korea occurs. A military council led by Do Young Tsang takes over |
May25 | President Kennedy announces the beginning of the US space program |
May28 | Amnesty International founded. On the same day race riots occur in Montgomery, Alabama with the Governor declaring martial law |
May31 | South Africa leaves the Commonwealth |
Jun6 | The Swiss psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung dies |
Jun21 | Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requested asylum in France while in Paris with the Kirov ballet. |
Jun25 | US philanthropist George Vanderbilt is found dead at the base of a San Franciscan skyscraper |
Jun27 | Dr Arthur Michael Ramsey was enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury. |
Jul2 | Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author, Ernest Hemingway took his own life at his home in Ketchum, Idaho |
Jul8 | Angela Mortimer wins the Ladies Singles Final at Wimbledon in an all British Final. The Australian Neale Fraser wins the Men's Title |
Jul19 | T.W.A show the first in-flight movie |
Kuwait's status as a British protectorate ends and it becomes an independent emirate. Six days later Iraq deploys troops in the border region and threatens secession | |
Aug10 | Britain applies for membership of the E.E.C |
Aug13 | The East Germans halt the passage between East and West Berlin and initiate the building of the Berlin Wall |
Aug18: | The Berlin Wall is completed |
Aug21 | Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison by the British authorities |
Sept18 | UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash. On Dec 10 he was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct10 | Volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha - whole population evacuated to Britain |
Oct12 | The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand |
Oct17 | Algerians
demonstrating in Paris against colonial rule were
confronted by riot police. The authorities say only three
people died but human rights groups have insisted the figure was over 240. The details were suppressed by the French government for years |
Oct21 | Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon held their fourth and final Presidential debate. |
Oct25 | The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, was published |
Oct30 | Russia's de-Stalinization program reached a climax when Stalin's body was removed from the mausoleum in Red Square and re-buried. On the same day the USSR detonates a 57 megaton H-Bomb in Novaja Zemja that sends shockwaves circles three times around the earth |
Nov12 | Stalingrad changes its name to Volgograd |
Nov16 | The Conservative government introduce the Commonwealth Immigration Bill |
Dec9 | Tanganjika gains independence and declares itself a republic with Julius Nyerere as its first President |
Dec10 | USSR severs diplomatic relations with Albania. on Jan 13 1962 Albania allies itself with China |
Dec19 | Goa cedes to India after 400 years of Portugese rule |
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