1st » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
3rd » Prime Minister of the United Kingdom known as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a Wind of Change (speech) e.g wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely
8th » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
8th » The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
13th » With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
13th » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
16th » The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton SSRN-586 6 begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
26th » A New York-bound Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane e.g Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
29th » An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.