1841 events
South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head…
U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights bill since…
François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating…
United States Army troops escorted nine students as Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated.
An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.
In a nationwide referendum, Gamal Abdel Nasser (pictured) was elected President of Egypt, a post he held until his death
Polish workers demanding better working conditions began massive protests in Poznań, but were later violently repressed
About 20,000 women marched on Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the introduction of pass laws for black women under…
Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell (pictured) and nine other preeminent intellectuals and scientists issued the…
The Austrian State Treaty came into effect, ending the Allied occupation of Austria, although the country was not free…
The Austrian State Treaty came into effect, ending the Allied occupation of Austria, although the country was not free…
Pather Panchali, the first film in The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, was released and went on to win many Indian and…
A white U.S. soldier raped and murdered a five-year-old local girl in Kadena, Okinawa.
The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent…
The security clearance of American nuclear physicist J
During hearings investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy, Army l
During hearings investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy, Army l
Carlos Castillo Armas led a CIA-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, beginning the 1954 Guatemalan cou
Carlos Castillo Armas led a CIA-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, beginning the 1954 Guatemalan cou