Entertainment: Brigitte Bardot appears in first mainstream film launching stardom
Films include The Man with the Golden Arm, Romeo and Juliet, The King and I, The Ten Commandments
Music includes Stravinsky, Bernstein (Candide), Lerner and Loewe (My Fair Lady) "Rock and Roll" dance in vogue
Writers include Goodrich and Hackett (Anne Frank drama), Grace Metalious (Peyton Place), John F Kennedy, WS Churchill,
Medicine: Four new antibiotics tested in US Oral vaccine developed against polio by Albert Sabin
Science: Neutrino produced at Los Alamos Labs Antineutron discovered by Cork Lambertson Piccioni and Wenzel
"Dido" reactor opened in England FW Muller develops the ion microscope Bell Telephone develops "visual telephone"
MD Ross and ML Lewis reach height of 22.8 miles in balloon Meteorite impact and dinosaur extinction linked – not taken seriously until 1980s
Runcorn publishes on polar wandering and continental drift
Technology: Early computer languages developed Transatlantic cable telephone service inaugurated
Deaths: Bela Lugosi – buried in Dracula cape, Alfred Kinsey, Jackson Pollock, Erich Kleiber, founder of IBM Thomas J Watson, Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack), Fred Allen
Africa
Egypt: Anglo-French forces invade after nationalization of Suez Canal Nasser elected president Israel attacks British refuse to fund Aswan High Dam
Libya: Italian North Africa changes name
Morocco: Independence from France
Nigeria: Representative government promised
Sudan: Independence
Tunisia: Independence from France
Americas
Bahamas: Anthony Eden leaves London to recuperate in Jamaica – RA Butler named Deputy Prime Minister
Colombia: Dynamite truck convy explodes in Cali kills 1200
Cuba: Beginning of revolution
Grenada: Hurricane kills 230
Haiti: President overthrown
Asia
Cambodia: Prince Sihanouk adopts neutrality
Ceylon: Bandaranaike becomes president (Sri Lanka)
China: Typhoon Wanda hits IN hANGCHOW KILLING 1960
India: Nehru visits Bonn Germany
Indonesia: Last links with Dutch crown severed
Japan: Peace with USSR Admission to UN
Europe
General: Bitter cold in Europe kills 907
Antilles: Cyclone
Cyprus: Archbishop Makarios transported from Cyprus to the Seychelles
France: Blizzard and gale stretches from England to Siberia
Great Britain: Beatles (called the Quarrymen) organize English Stage Company at Royal Court Theater London
Brecht's Berliner Ensemble visits England British bank interest rate raised to highest rate since 1932
Greece: King Paul I and Queen Frederika of Greece visit Bonn
Hungary: Hungarians revolt under Nagy against Soviets - crushed by Warwaw pact - Hungarian revolution
Cardinal Wyszynski released from prison, Cardinal Mindszenty released Revolt leads to martial law and mass arrests
Karelia: Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes Republic of Karelia
Monaco: Grace Kelly releases last film and marries Prince Rainier III
Poland: Rebellion against Soviets repressed
Soviet Union: Khrushchev rules USSR and initiates de-Stalinization as "cult of personality" - At the 20th Soviet Communist Party Conference Khrushchev denounces Stalin's policy
Bulganin and Khrushchev visit Britain
Yugoslavia: Nehru-Tito-Nasser conference held in Yugoslavia Tito and Khrushchev meet in the Crimea
Palace of Emperor Diocletian excavated Tito meets Nasser in Cairo and visits Moscow
Middle East
Iraq: Smallpox
Israel: Acceptance of UN truce proposal
Jordan: Acceptance of UN truce proposal
Pakistan: Becomes Islamic republic
Pacific
Australia: Olympic games at Melbourne Kimberly Coast cyclone
Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower reelected over Adlai Stevenson
General
Crime: Victor Riesel US columnist blinded by acid thrown by a gangster - four months later labor racketeer Johnny Dio indicted for conspiracy with six others
Culture: Martin Luther King emerges as leader of campaign for desegregation
American Jack O'Leary ends 8 years of hiccups after praying to St. Jude – patron saint of hopeless causes
Entertainment: Novel Peyton Place published shocking conservative public
The Wizard of Oz first shown on TV Artists include Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Little Richard
Law: Segregation on US busses declared unconstitutional
Politics: Eisenhower and P.M. Eden issue Declaration of Washington
Sports: Rocky Marciano retires undefeated from boxing and Floyd Patterson takes new title
Technology: Ampec Corporation demonstrates first practical VCR First Mach 3 flight
East
Massachusetts: Andrea Doria sinks after collision with Stockholm off Nantucket
St. Patrick's Day storm hits Boston with 20 inches of snow
New York: US soprano Maria Callas debuts Coliseum opens
"My Fair Lady" and Sammy Davis Jr. debut on Broadway,
Midwest
South
Alabama: Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
Florida: US Army releases mosquitoes with yellow fever and dengue
Georgia: US Army releases mosquitoes with yellow fever and dengue
West and Pacific
California: Cleveland National Forest fire started by 16 year old Inaja Indian who threw a match in the grass