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French president Charles de Gaulle delivered his "speech to the German youth" to 20,000 people in the courtyard of…
Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom
Led by Park Chung Hee, the Military Revolution Committee carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Po-s
Led by Park Chung Hee, the Military Revolution Committee carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Po-s
The U.S. National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide,…
An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations…
The Sibley Commission issued their final report, urging the government of the U
Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy pl
American physicist Theodore Maiman operated the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu
Ghana became a republic, with Kwame Nkrumah as its first president.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (pictured) was sworn in as prime minister of Ceylon, becoming the world's first democratically…
Led by Albert Kalonji, South Kasai declared its unilateral secession from the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
Congo Crisis: In order to stop the secession of South Kasai from the Republic of Congo, Armée Nationale Congolaise…
Congo Crisis: In order to stop the secession of South Kasai from the Republic of Congo, Armée Nationale Congolaise…
At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to…
The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St
B. Anthony Stewart is credited with the first image on the cover of National Geographic featuring the 49-star flag of…
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. vice president Richard Nixon held an impromptu debate (pictured) at the…