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| 1st Nuclear Explosion Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 2nd Oct The 1st BritishNuclear bomb is exploded |
| Abdication Farouk I |  |
| 26th July Abdicates 3 days after a Coup led by General Naguib |
| Abdication Talal |  |
| Suffers from schizophrenia & is declared unfit to rule |
| Ambassador Brosio, Manilo |  |
| London Appointed Ambassador to Britain |
| Armistice Teh-huai, Peng |  |
| Panmunjon Offers to negotiate after the death of Stalin & election of Eisenhower |
| Armistice South Sung, Kim Il |  |
| Panmunjon Offers to negotiate after the death of Stalin & election of Eisenhower |
| Arrest Kesselring, Albrecht |  |
| Pardoned & freed |
| Arrest Kenyatta, Jomo |  |
| 25th Nov Arrested and indicted with six others on the charges of "managing and being a member" of the Mau Mau Society |
| Arrest Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla |  |
| Johannesburg Africa Given a 9 month suspended sentence & forbidden to leave Johannesburg for 6 months |
| Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee Rabi, Isidor Isaac |  |
| Appointed Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee |
| Bharatiya Janata Party Mookerjee, Syama Prasad |  |
| The Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS, Indian People's Union) is founded by Syama Prasad Mookerjee, a Bengali nationalist leader, former Union Minister and freedom-fighter |
| Birth Strummer, Joe | |
| 21st Aug Ankara Birth of Joe Strummer, born John Mellor |
| Birth Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich |  |
| 7th Oct Leningrad Birth of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin |
| Blockade of Israel Ben-Gurion, David |  |
| Gaza Nasser steps up the blockade of Israeli ports & suppoorts Arab rebels at Gaza |
| Capture of Haobinh Giap, Vo Nguyen |  |
| Haobinh Compels the French to withdraw from Haobinh, a key position South East of Hanoi |
| Cardinal Stepinac, Aloysius |  |
| Appointed Cardinal, Tito will not allow him to have a visa to visit Rome |
| Central Committee Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| Central Committee Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Candidate Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party |
| Central Committee Ustinov, Dmitry Fedorovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| Chairman AEC Rabi, Isidor Isaac | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee |
| Chief Minister Desai, Morarji Ranchodji | |
| Appointed Chief Minister of Bombay |
| Chief NATO Ridgway Ridgway, Matthew |  |
| 11th July Appointed NATO military chief |
| Chief State Security Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Mar Moscow Appointed Chief of State Security |
| Claerwen Dam Elizabeth II | |
| 23rd Oct Claerwen Dam Opens the Claerwen Dam |
| Commander Clark, Mark | |
| Nov Appointed Commander of the UN forces in Korea |
| Commander Ridgway, Matthew | |
| Nov Appointed Commander of NATO |
| Communist Party Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| Composition Williams, Ralph Vaughan | |
| London Composes, "Sinfonia Antarctica" |
| Composition Prokofiev, Sergei | |
| Composes, "Symphony No 7" |
| Composes, "War & Peace" |
| Composition King, Riley B "BB" | |
| A 2nd no 1 R&B hit with "You Don't Know Me" |
| Conference of San Franicisco Yoshida, Shigeru |  |
| San Francisco Negotiates for Japan at the San Francis co Peace Conference |
| Congress of CP, 19th Stalin, Joseph | |
| Oct 19th Party Congress of the Communist Party |
| Constitution Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| 1st Mar India's 1st general elections |
| Constitution Mussadeq, Mohammed |  |
| Tehran Given dictatorial powers by the Majlis |
| Constitution Beirut, Boleslaw |  |
| A Constitution modeled on the Soviet Constitution is adopted |
| Constitution Malan, Daniel Francois | |
| Pretoria Africa Parliament is transormed into a High Court & validates the Coloured Voters Bill |
| Pretoria Africa The Supreme Court judges Apartheid as unconstitutional |
| Conversion X, Malcolm | |
| Chicago Malcolm X meets Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, soon after he changes his surname to "X", saying, the "X" is meant to symbolize the rejection of "slave names" |
| Malcolm X adopts the Nation of Islam |
| Corporal Amin Dada, Idi |  |
| Appointed Corporal |
| Council Accession Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 6th Feb Attends the Accession Council which proclaims Queen Elizabeth II |
| Coup d'Etat Batista, Fulgenico |  |
| 10th Mar Havana Batista fears that Barquin would oust him and his followers, and when it becomes apparent that |
