Oct 16   "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres   

Oct 17   England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens.   

Oct 17   England's inaugural large scale nuclear power station opens.   

Oct 20   58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)   

Oct 20   Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17 foot craft.   

Oct 21   In this year, Betty Dodd claims LPGA Lawton Golf Open   

Oct 22   France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella   

Oct 23   1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast   

Oct 23   inaugural video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast   

Oct 23   Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary.   

Oct 24   AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year   

Oct 24   Soviet troops invade Hungary.   

Oct 25   Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67.   

Oct 26   UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved.   

Oct 26   Vietnam promulgates its constitution.   

Oct 26   Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60   

Oct 28   In this year, Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus   

Oct 29   Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up.   

Oct 29   International zone of Tangier returned to Morocco.   

Oct 29   Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran   

Oct 29   The Huntley-Brinkley Report nightly newscast premieres on NBC TV.   

Oct 30   Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad   

Oct 31   1st American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek.   

Oct 31   Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal   

Oct 31   Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service.   

Oct 31   inaugural American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek   

Nov 01   Delhi is recorded as becoming a territory of the Indian union.   

Nov 01   Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed.   

Nov 01   Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67   

Nov 01   Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact   

Nov 02   Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion   

Nov 02   Israel captures Gaza and Sheham   

Nov 02   Jacob Weinberg, composer, dies at 77.   

Nov 03   "Wizard of Oz" inaugural televised (CBS-TV).   

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Jan 02   Lynda barry: American cartoonist   

Jan 03   Mel gibson: Peekskill ny, actor (mad max, mrs soffel, lethal weapon)   

Jan 03   Willy t. ribbs: American race car driver   

Jan 04   Ann magnuson: Charleston wv, actress (anything but love, hunger)   

Jan 04   Barney sumner: Rock guitarist/vocalist (new order-blue monday)   

Jan 04   Bernard albrecht: English pop guitarist (joy division)   

Jan 04   Nels cline: American guitarist and composer   

Jan 05   Chen kenichi: Japanese-born chef   

Jan 03   Alexander tikhonovich gretshaninov: Russian/us composer,   

Jan 04   Alexandr tikhonovich grechaninov: Composer,   

Jan 05   Jeanne f bourgeois: French head mistress (moulin rouge),   

Jan 08   Jim elliot: American christian missionary (b. 1928)   

Jan 10   Henricus p bremmer: Dutch art historian (beeldende kunst),    

Jan 12   John raedecker: Dutch sculptor (ww ii monument amsterdam),   

Jan 14   Siegfried f nadel: Aust/brit anthropologist (nuba),    

Jan 21   Sam langford: Canadian boxer (b. 1883)