Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at the age of 48
The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed in Washington, D.C.
Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Southern California.
American Heart Association Links smoking to heart disease and death in middle aged men
1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1)
Elvis Presley's song "Are You Lonesome Tonight" is recorded for the first time
Russwood Park, a baseball stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, burns to the ground from a fire shortly after a Chicago White Sox versus Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball game.
•In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight after having won the Gold Medal in Rome in the Olympic games
Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV
Nan Winton becomes the first national female newsreader on BBC television.
The U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over the State of New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,333 m). Kittinger set unbeaten (as of 2005) world records for: high-altitude jump; free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before opening his parachute; and also t
1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
This year NASA sent up ECHO, the first communications satellite to be seen with the naked eye.
KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
Hanna Barbera's "The Flintstones" premieres on ABC
Cassius Clay wins his first professional fight after having won the Gold Medal in Rome in the Olympic games
Louisville, Kentucky,
The professional basketball player Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers gets 55 rebounds in an NBA game versus the Boston Celtics.
Do Re Mi" opens at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances
