| January 1 | Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep |
| January 1 | Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
| January 1 | Rohan Kanhai completes 256 vs. India at Calcutta |
| January 2 | Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees |
| January 2 | U.S.S.R. launches Mechta, Luna 1, for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit |
| January 3 | Alaska admitted as 49th U.S. state |
| January 4 | Luna 1, Mechta, becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity |
| January 5 | "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV |
| January 5 | Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter" |
| January 7 | U.S. recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government |
| January 8 | Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic |
| January 9 | Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die |
| January 9 | Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ |
| January 9 | "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV |
| January 11 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke |
| January 11 | Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record |
| January 11 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open |
| January 11 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21 |
| January 12 | KOED TV channel 11 in Tulsa, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 13 | De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts |
| January 13 | King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence |
| January 17 | "Say, Darling" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 332 performances |
| January 18 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| January 20 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow |
| January 22 | USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects |
| January 24 | Dmitri Shostakovich's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow |
| January 24 | "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 38 performances |
| January 24 | WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 25 | 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301) |
| January 25 | Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council |
| January 26 | Italy government of Fanfani resigns |
| January 26 | KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 28 | Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US |
| January 29 | Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released |
| January 30 | Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test vs. England, Adelaide Oval |
| January 30 | Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres |
| January 31 | Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL |
| February 1 | Swiss males vote against voting rights for women |
| February 1 | Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) |
| February 1 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
| February 1 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
| February 1 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament |
| February 1 | WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, Louisiana (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| February 1 | Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 2 | Buddy Holly's last performance |
| February 2 | Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers |
| February 3 | American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65 |
| February 4 | Israel begins exporting copper ore |
| February 5 | Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide |
| February 5 | "Redhead" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 455 performances |
| February 6 | 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM |
| February 6 | Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R. Murrow |
| February 7 | Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution |
| February 7 | Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air) |
| February 7 | Dorothy Rigney sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M |
| February 7 | "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| February 9 | Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2 |
| February 10 | Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone" |
| February 10 | Tornado in St. Louis kills 19 and injures 265 |
| February 11 | Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi) |
| February 13 | Barbie doll goes on sale |
| February 13 | Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns |
| February 14 | $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York City |
| February 15 | Antonio Segni forms Italian government |
| February 15 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Tournament |
| February 16 | Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista |
| February 16 | Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One," premieres in New York City |
| February 17 | 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg |
| February 19 | Britain, Turkey and Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence |
| February 19 | Gabon adopts its constitution |
| February 19 | USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico |
| February 22 | 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH) |
| February 23 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open |
| February 23 | KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 27 | Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers |
| February 27 | Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players |
| February 28 | "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 161 performances |
| February 28 | Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny and Jones of GRB |
| February 28 | Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul of CAN |
| February 28 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA |
| February 28 | Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit |
| February 28 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA |
| February 28 | NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players |
| March 1 | Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years |
| March 1 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament |
| March 3 | 1st U.S. probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched |
| March 3 | British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis |
| March 3 | San Francisco Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park |
| March 4 | U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet |
| March 5 | Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty |
| March 6 | 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr |
| March 6 | Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles) |
| March 7 | 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) |
| March 7 | "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 925 performances |
| March 7 | West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34 |
| March 8 | Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together |
| March 8 | KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, Arizona (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 8 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| March 8 | Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq |
| March 9 | 1st known radar contact is made with Venus |
| March 9 | Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold |
| March 9 | "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| March 10 | Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," premieres in New York City |
| March 10 | Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet |
| March 11 | "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens |
| March 11 | Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit" |
| March 12 | Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections |
| March 12 | U.S. House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood |
| March 15 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 15 | Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway |
| March 15 | Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s |
| March 15 | WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| March 16 | Iraq and U.S.S.R. sign economic/technical treaty |
| March 17 | Australia and U.S.S.R. restore diplomatic relations |
| March 17 | Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India |
| March 18 | Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws |
| March 18 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill |
| March 19 | "1st Impressions" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 84 performances |
| March 21 | 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats West Virginia 71-70 |
| March 21 | "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| March 22 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament |
| March 24 | Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact |
| March 25 | Bill White traded to St. Louis for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate |
| March 25 | French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary |
| March 26 | Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs. WI age 15 years 124 days |
| March 28 | 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government and installs Panchen Lama |
| March 29 | "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon premieres |
| March 29 | Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore |
| March 30 | WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 31 | Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India |
| April 4 | Federation of Mali, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan, dissolved 1960 |
| April 5 | 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall, Jr. wins, shooting a 284 |
| April 6 | 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi," Susan Hayward and David Niven win |
| April 7 | Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years |
| April 7 | Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California |
| April 9 | 13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minnesota Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title |
| April 9 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators) |
| April 9 | Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot |
| April 9 | NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury |
| April 10 | Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda |
| April 11 | Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day home run |
| April 11 | Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory |
| April 11 | "Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 558 performances |
| April 12 | 13th Tony Awards: J B and Redhead win |
| April 12 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| April 12 | France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria |
| April 13 | USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit |
| April 13 | Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
| April 13 | Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists |
| April 14 | KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 15 | Fidel Castro begins U.S. goodwill tour |
| April 15 | U.S. Secretary of States John Foster Dulles resigns |
| April 16 | Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation |
| April 16 | New York Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard |
| April 16 | "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 44 performances |
| April 16 | Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit |
| April 18 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1 |
| April 19 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| April 19 | Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails |
| April 20 | 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42 |
| April 21 | 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod |
| April 21 | Alf Dean using a rod and reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark |
| April 22 | Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, and 3 errors |
| April 22 | Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings |
| April 23 | 1st heliport in Britain opens in London |
| April 23 | "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 472 performances |
| April 24 | Netherlands Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig and Cut Flier) |
| April 24 | WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 25 | St. Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping |
| April 26 | Cuba invades Panama |
| April 26 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
| April 27 | Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR |
| April 27 | "Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France) |
| April 28 | KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 28 | KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting |
| May 1 | Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 1 | West Germany introduces 5 day work week |
| May 1 | White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own home run |
| May 2 | 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2 |
| May 3 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament |
| May 3 | Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive home runs in a doubleheader |
| May 4 | 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win |
| May 4 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish |
| May 8 | 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore |
| May 9 | Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox |
| May 10 | Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released and charged with loss 2 months after his retirement |
| May 10 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational |
| May 11 | Elvis Presley's 1st entry on U.K. charts with "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| May 11 | "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes and Connie Stevens hits #4 |
| May 11 | Rodgers and Barer's musical "Once upon a mattress," premieres in New York City |
| May 11 | Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends |
| May 12 | Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher) |
| May 12 | "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater New York City for 23 performances |
| May 13 | Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV |
| May 15 | 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams Teams reenact the original contest |
| May 16 | 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57 |
| May 16 | WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, Michigan (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| May 17 | Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122 |
| May 18 | "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52 |
| May 18 | "Judy" by David Seville hits #86 |
| May 18 | "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer and Spencer hits #91 |
| May 19 | Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands |
| May 20 | Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon" |
| May 20 | Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship |
| May 20 | Shah of Persia visits Netherlands |
| May 20 | Yankees sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940 |
| May 21 | Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens |
| May 21 | "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 702 performances |
| May 22 | Benjamin O Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black General-major in USAF |
| May 23 | "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 44 performances |
| May 23 | Presbyterian church accepts women preachers |
| May 24 | 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania |
| May 24 | Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England |
| May 25 | Khrushchev visits Angola |
| May 25 | Supreme court rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional |
| May 26 | Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th |
| May 28 | Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts |
| May 28 | Johnson and Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters," premieres in London |
| May 28 | Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission |
| May 29 | Charles de Gaulle forms French government |
| May 30 | "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 84 performances |
| May 30 | Iraq terminates military assistance pact with U.S. due to neutrality |
| May 30 | "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater New York City after 23 performances |
| May 30 | President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua |
| May 30 | President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament |
| May 30 | World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England |
| May 31 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open |
| June 1 | 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area |
| June 1 | Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) |
| June 2 | Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," San Francisco |
| June 3 | 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo |
| June 3 | 1st U.S. Air Force Academy graduation |
| June 3 | Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon |
| June 3 | Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1 |
| June 3 | Singapore adopts constitution |
| June 5 | Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota |
| June 7 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| June 7 | KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW) |
| June 8 | 1st official "missile mail" lands, Jacksonville, Florida |
| June 8 | X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m |
| June 9 | 1st ballistic missile sub launched, George Washington |
| June 10 | Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive home runs in 1 game |
| June 11 | Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar 1960) |
| June 12 | San Francisco Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game |
| June 13 | 59th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York |
| June 13 | 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6 |
| June 13 | "Sammy Kaye Show," last airs on ABC-TV |
| June 14 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
| June 17 | Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland |
| June 18 | 1st telecast transmitted from England to U.S. |
| June 22 | "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9 |
| June 22 | "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 |
| June 22 | Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games |
| June 22 | Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax) |
| June 22 | Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to San Francisco voyage |
| June 26 | Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title |
| June 26 | Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open St. Lawrence Seaway |
| June 27 | 14th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| June 27 | Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game |
| June 27 | "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 734 performances |
| June 28 | Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0) |
| June 29 | Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, and peace, in charity" |
| June 30 | During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time |
| July 1 | Heinrich Lubke elected President of West-Germany |
| July 1 | Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany |
| July 1 | World Refugee Year begins |
| July 1 | WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (IND) begins broadcasting |
| July 2 | "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres |
| July 2 | Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels |
| July 3 | 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64) |
| July 3 | 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane |
| July 4 | 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63) |
| July 4 | America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled |
| July 4 | Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony |
| July 5 | Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns |
| July 5 | Indonesia restores constitution |
| July 5 | Jack Gelber's "Connection," premieres in New York City |
| July 6 | 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| July 6 | Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic |
| July 6 | WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 7 | 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh |
| July 9 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open |
| July 9 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament |
| July 12 | NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game |
| July 14 | 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts |
| July 17 | 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis |
| July 17 | Dr. Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old) |
| July 17 | River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana) |
| July 17 | Tibet abolishes serfdom |
| July 18 | 1st black to win a major golf tournament, William Wright |
| July 19 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance |
| July 21 | 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey |
| July 21 | Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green) |
| July 22 | Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D, premieres |
| July 23 | Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R. |
| July 24 | 500,000th Dutch TV set registered |
| July 24 | Vice President Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" |
| July 26 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| July 27 | Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut |
| July 27 | William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in New York City in 1961 |
| July 28 | Great Britain starts using postal codes |
| July 28 | Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress |
| July 30 | In his major league debut, San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 |
| July 31 | 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
| August 1 | New Continental baseball league formed |
| August 1 | Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia |
| August 1 | WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| August 2 | 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC |
| August 2 | Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples |
| August 2 | San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 home runs |
| August 3 | 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA |
| August 3 | 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau |
| August 3 | AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium) |
| August 4 | "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 87 performances |
| August 5 | 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record) |
| August 5 | Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto |
| August 7 | Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space |
| August 12 | 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island |
| August 12 | Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa |
| August 13 | Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit) |
| August 14 | 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000) |
| August 14 | AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston |
| August 16 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open |
| August 16 | U.S.S.R. introduces installment buying |
| August 17 | 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park |
| August 17 | U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor |
| August 18 | Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League |
| August 19 | Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| August 19 | Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League |
| August 19 | Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit |
| August 20 | Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months |
| August 21 | Hawaii becomes 50th U.S. state |
| August 22 | Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive home runs |
| August 23 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
| August 24 | England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India |
| August 24 | Hiram Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii) |
| August 31 | 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2) |
| August 31 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| August 31 | Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game |
| September 2 | U.S. President Eisenhower arrives in Paris |
| September 5 | Washington Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) |
| September 6 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| September 11 | Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans |
| September 11 | "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements |
| September 11 | Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 |
| September 11 | Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 |
| September 12 | "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV |
| September 12 | Janos Kadar becomes premier of Hungary |
| September 12 | Luna 2 launched by U.S.S.R.; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon |
| September 13 | 73rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64) |
| September 13 | 79th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64) |
| September 13 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
| September 13 | U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body |
| September 14 | Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon |
| September 14 | WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 15 | Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit |
| September 16 | President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination |
| September 17 | 59th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus |
| September 17 | Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit |
| September 17 | Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea |
| September 18 | Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit |
| September 19 | Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland |
| September 20 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open |
| September 21 | 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US |
| September 22 | Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant |
| September 25 | Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) and David Brown (43) wed |
| September 26 | Japan hit by typhoon Vera; about 5,000 die |
| September 26 | Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty |
| September 26 | San Francisco Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 |
| September 27 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open |
| September 27 | Braves and Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68) |
| September 27 | Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his U.S. visit |
| September 28 | Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin |
| September 28 | Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth |
| September 28 | "Hennesey," debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, and take NL pennant |
| September 29 | Little Anthony and the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop" |
| September 29 | "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | "Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV |
| September 29 | Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution |
| October 1 | 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs Chic) |
| October 2 | Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV |
| October 3 | 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal |
| October 4 | 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA) |
| October 4 | Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts |
| October 4 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad |
| October 4 | Los Angeles Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394 |
| October 4 | Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1 |
| October 4 | U.S.S.R. Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side |
| October 6 | Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA) |
| October 6 | Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon |
| October 7 | Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s Luna 3 |
| October 7 | "Happy Town" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| October 8 | "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 216 performances |
| October 8 | Conservatives win British election |
| October 8 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series |
| October 9 | 1st phone call between auto and plane |
| October 9 | Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton |
| October 10 | "Happy Town" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| October 10 | Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki |
| October 10 | Pan Am begins regular flights around World |
| October 11 | KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 14 | WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 15 | KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 15 | "Untouchables" premieres |
| October 17 | "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 87 performances |
| October 17 | Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse |
| October 17 | Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated |
| October 19 | Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel |
| October 19 | William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in New York City |
| October 20 | Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise |
| October 20 | WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| October 21 | Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana |
| October 21 | Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in N.Y.C. |
| October 21 | Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY |
| October 22 | Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in New York City |
| October 22 | "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 448 performances |
| October 23 | Chinese troops move into India, 17 die |
| October 24 | U.S. premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert |
| October 27 | Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico |
| October 28 | Buffalo Bills enter AFL |
| October 28 | Jean Genet's "Les Nigres," premieres in Paris |
| October 29 | 10 nation soccer league to play all games on New York Randalls Is, announced |
| October 31 | Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US |
| October 31 | U.S.S.R. and Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam |
| November 1 | 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante) |
| November 1 | Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt |
| November 1 | Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo |
| November 1 | WOV-AM in New York City changes call letters to WADO |
| November 2 | Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed |
| November 2 | "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| November 3 | Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
| November 4 | Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP |
| November 5 | AFL announced with 8 teams |
| November 7 | 13th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 8 -3 at Eldorado CC California |
| November 8 | KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, California (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| November 8 | Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair |
| November 10 | Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World |
| November 11 | 1st episode of "Rocky and His Friends" airs |
| November 11 | Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished |
| November 12 | White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP |
| November 14 | "Girls against the Boys" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| November 14 | Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii) |
| November 15 | Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Washington 31-17 |
| November 16 | "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 1443 performances |
| November 17 | De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond |
| November 17 | Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 17 | William Shea shows proposed New York City stadium with transparent roof |
| November 18 | Washington Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year |
| November 19 | Ford cancels Edsel |
| November 19 | "Rocky and His Friends" debuts on ABC |
| November 20 | U.N. adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights |
| November 20 | WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal |
| November 21 | Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet |
| November 22 | AFL's 1st draft - New York Titans choice George Izo, quarterback, Notre Dame |
| November 22 | Boston Patriots enters AFL |
| November 23 | "Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 796 performances |
| November 25 | "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 460 performances |
| November 28 | 47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7 |
| November 28 | KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook - Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins |
| November 28 | Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum |
| November 30 | Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL |
| December 1 | 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica |
| December 1 | 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space |
| December 1 | 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB) |
| December 1 | The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space |
| December 2 | Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus |
| December 3 | State of emergency on Cyprus ends |
| December 5 | Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests |
| December 7 | "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 80 performances |
| December 8 | Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta |
| December 8 | President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs. Australia Test Cricket at Karachi |
| December 11 | Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley and Joe Deaestri |
| December 12 | U.N. Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established |
| December 13 | Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus |
| December 14 | Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus |
| December 14 | J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m |
| December 14 | USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter |
| December 15 | Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" |
| December 16 | Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48 |
| December 17 | 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach) |
| December 17 | "On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain |
| December 18 | Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of New York Titans (AFL) |
| December 19 | 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0 |
| December 20 | Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India vs. Australia at Kanpur |
| December 21 | 10th largest snowfall in New York City history (13.7") |
| December 21 | Citizens of Deerfield, Illinois block building of interracial housing |
| December 21 | Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba |
| December 21 | Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988) |
| December 22 | Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth |
| December 22 | NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask |
| December 25 | A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas |
| December 25 | Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set |
| December 25 | Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market |
| December 27 | Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game |
| December 29 | Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in New York City |
| December 30 | George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned |
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