| January 1 | Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique," premieres |
| January 1 | WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, Pennsylvania (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| January 2 | NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak |
| January 4 | KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| January 5 | Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea |
| January 5 | Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris |
| January 6 | WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 7 | President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb |
| January 8 | Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts) |
| January 8 | Rene Mayer forms French government |
| January 9 | Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game |
| January 9 | Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 |
| January 10 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish |
| January 10 | "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 89 performances |
| January 10 | NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 |
| January 11 | J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club |
| January 12 | 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow |
| January 13 | Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14 |
| January 13 | KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, Arizona (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 13 | Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia |
| January 14 | Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica," premieres in Manchester |
| January 14 | WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| January 14 | Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito) |
| January 15 | 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington D.C. station |
| January 15 | GDR Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" |
| January 16 | 27th Australian Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beat J Sampson (63 62) |
| January 16 | 41st Australian Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (60 63 64) |
| January 16 | Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties |
| January 16 | KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane, WA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 18 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| January 19 | Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary |
| January 20 | 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower) |
| January 20 | 1st U.S. telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY |
| January 21 | John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State |
| January 22 | Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in New York City |
| January 23 | Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for NSW 16 years 357 days |
| January 23 | NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts) |
| January 23 | NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf |
| January 25 | WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 25 | Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec |
| January 27 | Netherlands end Marshall aid |
| January 28 | J. Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show" |
| January 28 | WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 29 | 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres |
| January 31 | Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835 |
| January 31 | NY, Cleveland, and Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues |
| January 31 | "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die |
| February 1 | Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State |
| February 1 | Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835 |
| February 1 | "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts |
| February 1 | WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| February 1 | "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television |
| February 3 | J. Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show |
| February 5 | 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes wins |
| February 5 | "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City |
| February 6 | Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 years 239 days, youngest Aussie |
| February 6 | U.S. controls on wages and some consumer goods were lifted |
| February 8 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| February 8 | WLVirginia (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia (ABC) begins |
| February 9 | "Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication |
| February 9 | General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA |
| February 9 | WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| February 10 | Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood and Demmy GRB |
| February 10 | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer and John Nicks of GRB |
| February 10 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA |
| February 10 | Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA |
| February 11 | "Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 190 performances |
| February 11 | J. Styne/B. Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in New York City |
| February 11 | President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple |
| February 11 | Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel |
| February 12 | U.S.S.R. breaks relations with Israel |
| February 13 | A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium |
| February 17 | Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea |
| February 17 | DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven |
| February 18 | "Bwana Devil," the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York |
| February 18 | KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 18 | "Maggie" opens at National Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| February 18 | Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (New York City) |
| February 19 | Georgia approves U.S. 1st literature censorship board |
| February 19 | Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet |
| February 19 | William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in New York City |
| February 20 | August A. Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million |
| February 20 | U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling |
| February 21 | Francis Crick and James Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule |
| February 21 | Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81 |
| February 21 | "Maggie" closes at National Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| February 25 | "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 559 performances |
| February 26 | Allen W. Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA |
| February 28 | Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Malenkov |
| March 1 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| March 1 | KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 1 | KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins |
| March 1 | WJZ-AM in New York City becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission |
| March 1 | WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 3 | Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee |
| March 3 | Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed |
| March 6 | Malenkov becomes chairman of the U.S.S.R. |
| March 7 | Jackie McGlew scores 255* vs. New Zealand at Wellington |
| March 8 | Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years |
| March 8 | KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| March 8 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| March 8 | "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances |
| March 8 | WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| March 9 | Josef Stalin buried in Moscow |
| March 11 | 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) |
| March 11 | American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches |
| March 14 | KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 14 | Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party |
| March 15 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 15 | West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1 |
| March 16 | AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St. Louis Browns to Baltimore |
| March 17 | Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M |
| March 17 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 17 | WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 17 | WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| March 18 | 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68 |
| March 18 | Boston Braves move to Milwaukee |
| March 18 | Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die |
| March 18 | KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| March 18 | NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903) |
| March 19 | 25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper and Shirley Booth win (1st time televised) |
| March 19 | Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real," premieres in New York City |
| March 21 | NBA record 106 fouls and 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse) |
| March 22 | Antonin Zapotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia |
| March 22 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
| March 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 26 | Dr. Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio |
| March 27 | 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio |
| March 28 | 7th Tony Awards: Crucible and Wonderful Town win |
| March 28 | KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| March 28 | "New Faces (of 1952)" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 365 performances |
| March 28 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
| March 28 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
| March 29 | Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open |
| March 30 | Einstein announces revised unified field theory |
| March 31 | Department of Health, Education and Welfare established |
| March 31 | U.N. Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general |
| April 1 | J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea |
| April 1 | KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 1 | Walcott Worrell and Weekes all make centuries in innings vs. India |
| April 2 | Raab forms his 1st government in Austria |
| April 4 | KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 5 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| April 5 | WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 7 | 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight |
| April 7 | Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary |
| April 9 | Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya |
| April 9 | "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue |
| April 10 | 7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1 |
| April 10 | "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (New York City) |
| April 11 | Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, and Welfare |
| April 12 | 17th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 274 |
| April 12 | Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston |
| April 12 | KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| April 13 | 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cincinnati Reds 2-0 |
| April 14 | Viet-Minh offensive in Laos |
| April 14 | WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins |
| April 15 | Malans National Party wins South African elections |
| April 15 | WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 16 | British royal yacht Britannia taken out of service |
| April 16 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Palm Springs Golf Open |
| April 16 | Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game |
| April 16 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
| April 16 | WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 17 | Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) HR in Washington D.C.'s Griffith Stadium |
| April 18 | "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 542 performances |
| April 19 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open |
| April 19 | WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 20 | 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51 |
| April 23 | General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| April 23 | KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| April 23 | WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, Alabama (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 24 | Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II |
| April 27 | 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP |
| April 27 | Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek" |
| April 29 | Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers |
| April 30 | Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League |
| May 2 | 79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02 |
| May 2 | Feisal II installed as king of Iraq |
| May 2 | Hussein I installed as king of Jordan |
| May 3 | WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| May 4 | Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) |
| May 6 | Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0 |
| May 7 | "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 892 performances |
| May 7 | Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile |
| May 8 | WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 10 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open |
| May 10 | KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| May 11 | Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas and causes $39M damage |
| May 11 | Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory |
| May 12 | KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 13 | New York Giants Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each hit 2 home runs and a triple |
| May 15 | Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago |
| May 15 | Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam |
| May 15 | Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 1 for heavywgt boxing title |
| May 16 | Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row |
| May 17 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open |
| May 17 | Yankees and Browns use record 41 players in a game |
| May 18 | Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier |
| May 19 | Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St. George, Utah) |
| May 21 | French government of Mayer resigns |
| May 22 | President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill |
| May 22 | Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yankees beat Washington 12-4 |
| May 23 | 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8 |
| May 23 | Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes |
| May 23 | WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 24 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus |
| May 25 | 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada |
| May 25 | 1st non-commercial educational television station, Houston, Texas |
| May 25 | Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row |
| May 26 | Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die |
| May 27 | Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections |
| May 28 | Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody" |
| May 29 | Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest |
| May 30 | 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2 |
| May 30 | 23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (63 64 16 62) |
| May 30 | 23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64) |
| May 31 | Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government |
| May 31 | WSUN TV channel 38 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| June 1 | KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, California (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| June 1 | WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| June 2 | Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey |
| June 3 | Alexander Cartwright founded baseball and not Abner Doubleday |
| June 3 | Congress cites research of New York City librarian Robert Henderson in proving |
| June 3 | KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins |
| June 4 | Pittsburgh trades outfielder Ralph Kiner and Joe Garagiola to Chicago |
| June 5 | Denmark adopts a new constitution |
| June 5 | U.S. Senate rejects China membership to U.N. |
| June 7 | 1st color network telecast in compatible color, Boston, Massachusetts |
| June 7 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| June 7 | Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Washington D.C. restaurants |
| June 7 | WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins |
| June 8 | Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113 |
| June 8 | Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court |
| June 8 | Tornadoes kill 110 in Michigan and Ohio |
| June 9 | "Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 9 | South African premier Malan visits Netherlands |
| June 9 | Worcester County tornado, 94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless |
| June 11 | "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS |
| June 11 | Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge |
| June 13 | 53rd U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA |
| June 13 | 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6 |
| June 13 | Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 and 7-44) vs. Australia |
| June 13 | Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2) |
| June 13 | KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| June 14 | Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal |
| June 14 | Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee |
| June 14 | Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia |
| June 14 | Yankees sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight |
| June 15 | Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 and Browns 14-game losing streak |
| June 15 | Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits |
| June 15 | New York City Transit Authority forms |
| June 15 | WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 16 | Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yankees lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Brown 14 game losing streak |
| June 17 | Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox) |
| June 17 | Riots in East Germany for reunification |
| June 17 | Supreme Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary |
| June 18 | Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president |
| June 18 | Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits and Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3 |
| June 18 | USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen |
| June 19 | Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council |
| June 19 | WCSouth Carolina TV channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 19 | WTPennsylvania (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| June 20 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| June 23 | Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament |
| June 24 | KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, New Mexico (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| June 25 | 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours |
| June 25 | 86 degrees F in Anchorage Alaska |
| June 26 | KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, Texas (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| June 26 | Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested |
| June 27 | Joseph Laniel appointed French premier |
| June 28 | 8th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| June 29 | XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| June 30 | 1st Corvette manufactured |
| July 1 | KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 1 | KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins |
| July 3 | 67th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (97 63 64) |
| July 4 | 60th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75) |
| July 4 | Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rakosi as premier of Hungary |
| July 5 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| July 5 | WANorth Carolina TV channel 21 in Asheville, North Carolina (IND) begins broadcasting |
| July 7 | 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Michigan |
| July 8 | U.S. stops aid to Persia |
| July 9 | 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City |
| July 9 | Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games |
| July 10 | 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees |
| July 10 | Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist] |
| July 12 | KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, Idaho (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 14 | 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati |
| July 14 | Communist offensive in Korea |
| July 16 | KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| July 19 | KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 19 | WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 20 | U.S.S.R./Israel recover diplomatic relations |
| July 24 | KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, California (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 25 | New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens |
| July 26 | Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime |
| July 27 | 1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto |
| July 27 | Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame |
| July 27 | North Korea and United Nations sign armistice |
| July 27 | Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory |
| July 29 | U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok |
| July 31 | Department of Health, Education and Welfare created |
| August 1 | California introduces sales tax, for education |
| August 1 | Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba |
| August 1 | KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| August 1 | KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| August 1 | Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
| August 1 | Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief |
| August 2 | Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash |
| August 2 | KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| August 3 | Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| August 4 | Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago |
| August 4 | Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs and wins 15-0 |
| August 5 | Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom |
| August 6 | Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military |
| August 7 | Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet |
| August 8 | Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb |
| August 8 | U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact |
| August 9 | Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired |
| August 12 | Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami |
| August 12 | Heavy earthquake strikes Isotope islands, 435 killed |
| August 12 | Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb |
| August 13 | 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations |
| August 13 | President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee |
| August 13 | U.S. General Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff |
| August 14 | 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818) |
| August 14 | KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, Montana (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| August 16 | KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins |
| August 16 | Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome |
| August 19 | England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0 |
| August 20 | General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia |
| August 20 | Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation |
| August 21 | Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) and Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation |
| August 21 | Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m |
| August 21 | Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed |
| August 22 | France closes jail on Devil Island |
| August 22 | John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union |
| August 22 | Shah of Persia returns to Teheran |
| August 23 | Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan |
| August 23 | Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter |
| August 23 | Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die |
| August 23 | KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, California (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| August 23 | Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3 ") |
| August 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| August 28 | "Me and Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 358 performances |
| August 29 | KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 29 | U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb |
| August 30 | Future New York City mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City |
| August 31 | KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| August 31 | WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins |
| September 1 | 101 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept |
| September 1 | Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship |
| September 1 | WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, South Carolina (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| September 1 | WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (MET) begins |
| September 3 | French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy |
| September 4 | WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins |
| September 4 | WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 4 | Yankees become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship |
| September 5 | 1st privately operated atomic reactor, Raleigh NC |
| September 5 | U.S. give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid |
| September 6 | Adenauers CDU wins elections in West Germany |
| September 6 | Roy Campanella sets record for home runs by a catcher at 38 |
| September 7 | 67th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64) |
| September 7 | 73rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas, Jr. (63 62 63) |
| September 7 | Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs |
| September 8 | "Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater New York for 6 performances |
| September 8 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona |
| September 9 | KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, California (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 9 | WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 10 | Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner" |
| September 11 | KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, California (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 12 | Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team |
| September 12 | "Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 6 performances |
| September 12 | Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party |
| September 12 | Senator John F. Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24 |
| September 13 | Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st Secretary-General of U.S.S.R. |
| September 13 | Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Philadelphia A's |
| September 14 | Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry |
| September 14 | Yankees clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians |
| September 15 | Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) |
| September 15 | KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 15 | WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 16 | AL approves St. Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles |
| September 17 | 1st successful separation of Siamese twins |
| September 17 | Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player |
| September 19 | "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 190 performances |
| September 20 | Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR |
| September 21 | Allied forces form West Germany |
| September 21 | KRDO TV channel 13 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| September 22 | Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia |
| September 23 | KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 24 | Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 24 | "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway |
| September 26 | Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game |
| September 26 | KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, California (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 26 | Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski |
| September 26 | U.S. and Spain sign defense treaty (4 U.S. bases in Spain) |
| September 27 | Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal |
| September 27 | KCMO (now KCTV) TV channel 5 in Kansas City, Missouri (CBS) begins |
| September 27 | KNOE TV channel 8 in Monroe-West Monroe, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 27 | KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 27 | KQTV TV channel 2 in Saint Joseph, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 27 | St. Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game |
| September 27 | Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan |
| September 27 | WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 27 | WMAZ TV channel 13 in Macon, Georgia (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 27 | WTOK TV channel 11 in Meridian, MS (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 28 | "Bob and Ray Show," TV Variety; last air on NBC |
| September 28 | Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954 |
| September 28 | "Juvenile Jury," TV Childrens, last airs on NBC, moved to CBS |
| September 28 | KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 28 | "Racket Squad," TV Crime Drama, last airs on CBS |
| September 29 | 1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois |
| September 29 | Baltimore Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000 |
| September 29 | "Buick-Berle Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV |
| September 29 | Milton Berle Show premieres |
| September 29 | U.S. government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China |
| September 30 | Auguste/Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record) |
| September 30 | Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| September 30 | Robert Anderson's "Tea and Sympathy," premieres in New York City |
| September 30 | WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 30 | WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins |
| October 1 | Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras |
| October 1 | KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, California (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 1 | KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 1 | WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville, Tennessee (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 1 | WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 2 | "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden New York City for 849 perf |
| October 2 | Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series |
| October 3 | 10th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 6 -5 at Wentworth, England |
| October 3 | 7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal |
| October 3 | KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 4 | Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4) |
| October 4 | Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series |
| October 5 | 50th World Series sees New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as New York Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yankees win record 5th consec WS |
| October 5 | Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of U.S. |
| October 6 | WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 7 | Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply |
| October 8 | Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group |
| October 8 | WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins |
| October 9 | British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution |
| October 9 | Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor |
| October 12 | U.S. and Greece signs peace treaty (U.S. bases) |
| October 13 | Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno |
| October 14 | 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service |
| October 14 | Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die |
| October 14 | Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr |
| October 14 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia |
| October 14 | Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment |
| October 14 | WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 15 | John Patrick's "Teahouse of the Red Moon," premieres in New York City |
| October 15 | KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 15 | WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (IND) begins |
| October 18 | Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times |
| October 18 | WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 18 | WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 19 | 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service |
| October 19 | Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey |
| October 20 | WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 22 | Laos gains full independence from France |
| October 23 | France grants Laos' sovereignty |
| October 23 | West Germany applies to NATO |
| October 23 | WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| October 24 | KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, Arizona (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 25 | Cleveland Browns' quarterback Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles |
| October 25 | Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die |
| October 25 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony |
| October 25 | KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, California (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 26 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia |
| October 28 | Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record) |
| October 28 | Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees |
| October 29 | A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns |
| October 30 | Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 31 | TV broadcasting begins in Belgium |
| November 1 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) and 6 mile (28:08.4) |
| November 1 | KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 2 | Pakistan becomes islamic republic |
| November 3 | 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly |
| November 3 | 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (New York City) |
| November 4 | Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Philadelphia A's |
| November 4 | New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk |
| November 5 | Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke |
| November 5 | Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds |
| November 5 | Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London |
| November 6 | French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy |
| November 6 | Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Baltimore Orioles |
| November 6 | Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres |
| November 7 | WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| November 8 | Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal |
| November 9 | Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union |
| November 9 | KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, Montana (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| November 9 | Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws |
| November 10 | Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised) |
| November 11 | Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager |
| November 12 | David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel |
| November 12 | U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games |
| November 13 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 4th String Quartet, premieres |
| November 14 | WCIA TV channel 3 in Champaign, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 15 | WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 15 | WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 17 | St. Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc |
| November 18 | Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage |
| November 19 | U.S. Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business |
| November 19 | U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi |
| November 20 | Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH) |
| November 21 | "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax |
| November 21 | WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft. Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| November 23 | KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft. Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| November 23 | WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 24 | Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954 |
| November 25 | Earthquake/tsnunami strike Honshu Japan |
| November 25 | "Guys and Dolls" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1200 performances |
| November 25 | Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3 |
| November 26 | KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, Idaho (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 26 | WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 26 | Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening |
| November 27 | Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP |
| November 28 | 41st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 12-6 |
| November 28 | "Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 597 performances |
| November 29 | American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service |
| November 29 | WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 30 | French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu |
| December 1 | Red Sox trade M McDermott and Tom Umphlett for Wash's Jackie Jensen |
| December 1 | WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, South Carolina (IND) 1st broadcast |
| December 1 | Walter Alston named Dodger manager |
| December 1 | WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 3 | Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party |
| December 3 | "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 583 performances |
| December 3 | Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich' 5th String Quartet |
| December 6 | Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14 |
| December 7 | Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion retires |
| December 7 | WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 8 | 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB) |
| December 9 | General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired |
| December 9 | Mont Canadiens (106) and Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty minutes |
| December 10 | "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial New York City for 229 performances |
| December 10 | KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 10 | WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins |
| December 11 | KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station |
| December 12 | Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane |
| December 13 | KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 14 | Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax |
| December 15 | WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, Florida (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 16 | 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters) |
| December 16 | Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A |
| December 17 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad |
| December 17 | FCC approves RCA's black and white - compatible color TV specifications |
| December 18 | KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 18 | KMID TV channel 2 in Midland and Odessa, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 19 | KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 20 | KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, Idaho (CBS) 1st broadcasting |
| December 20 | KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 21 | KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 22 | Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns |
| December 23 | Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year |
| December 24 | 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia) |
| December 24 | KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 24 | KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 24 | Rene Coty elected President of France |
| December 24 | Wellington-Auckland (New Zealand) express train swept away in flood kills 166 |
| December 25 | Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand) |
| December 27 | Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game |
| December 28 | WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 31 | Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president |
| December 31 | WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (NBC) begins |
| December 31 | Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year |
