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Thermonuclear bomb testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4) using a…
Thermonuclear bomb testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4) using a…
Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah…
Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah…
U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in…
Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
A United States-South Korea mutual defense treaty is concluded in Washington, D.C.
A United States-South Korea mutual defense treaty is concluded in Washington, D.C.
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years'…
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years'…
President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear…
President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear…
The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of t
The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of t
The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to
The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to
The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer
The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting
The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be t