February 20 – The Canadian Government cancels the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft project.February 19 – The United Kingdom decides to grant independence to Cyprus.Women in Nepal vote for the first time.Jesús Sosa Blanco, a colonel in the Cuban army of Fulgencio Batista, is executed in Cuba after being convicted of committing 108 murders for Batista.February 17 – Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, is launched to measure cloud cover for the United States Navy.A blizzard causes a massive power outage in Newfoundland.February 13 – TAT-2, AT&T's second transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation.February 9 – Yugoslavia and Spain set trade relations (not diplomatic ones).February 6 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra from Chicago crashes into the East River on approach to New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.

The tragedy is later termed ' The Day the Music Died', popularized in Don McLean's 1971 song ' American Pie'.

A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper with pilot Roger Peterson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all four on board.

February 2 – Nine ski hikers mysteriously perish in the northern Ural Mountains in the Dyatlov Pass incident and are all found dead a few weeks later.

įebruary 17: Technical drawing of Vanguard 2

January 30 – Danish passenger/cargo ship MS Hans Hedtoft, returning to Copenhagen after its maiden voyage to Greenland, strikes an iceberg and sinks off the Greenland coast with the loss of all 95 on board.

Grand Canyon wins an Oscar for Best Documentary Short. Also on the program is Disney's new live-action short subject Grand Canyon, which uses the music of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite. It is Disney's first animated film to be shown in 70mm and modern 6-track stereophonic sound.

January 29 – Walt Disney releases his 16th animated film, Sleeping Beauty in Beverly Hills.

Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.

The Boeing 707 airliner begins service.

January 22 – Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania near Pittston, Pennsylvania 12 miners are killed.

January 21 – The European Court of Human Rights is established.

The Soviet Union conducts its first census after World War II.

Cuban communists execute 71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista.

Motown Records is founded by Berry Gordy, Jr.

The Caves of Nerja are discovered in Spain.

January 11 – The Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques is founded in Monaco.

January 10 – The Soviet government recognizes the new Castro government.

January 9 – The Vega de Tera disaster in Spain nearly destroy the town of Ribadelago and kills 144 residents.

January 8 – Charles de Gaulle is inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic.

January 7 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated.

Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo.

In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana.The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive archipelago ( Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) declare independence.It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth.

January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.Establishments and disestablishments categoriesġ959 in various calendars Gregorian calendar

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