1st » Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
6th » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami called Miami, Florida.
6th » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
7th » The UGM-27 Polaris called Polaris missile is test launched.
9th » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
19th » Japan and the United States sign the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan named US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
20th » Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
21st » Little Joe 1B, a Project Mercury Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Monkeys in space Miss Sam, a female Rhesus Macaque rhesus monkey on board.
23rd » The bathyscaphe Bathyscaphe Trieste USS 'Trieste' breaks a depth record by descending to Convert 10911 m ft in the Pacific Ocean.
24th » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
25th » The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
26th » Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
28th » The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas Cowboys known as Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minnesota Vikings called Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
30th » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
29th » J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-English singer-songwriter and producer (Wiseblood (band) Wiseblood, The Immaculate Consumptive, Coil (band) Coil, and Foetus (band) Foetus)