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events

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politics

1. January: Paul Chaudet becomes Federal President of Switzerland
1. January: Cuba. The dictator Fulgencio Batista flees abroad. Fidel Castro comes to power
2. January: Fidel Castro and itsRevolution troops move a 3 in Havanna, the capital
of Cuba. January: Alaska becomes the 49. Federal State of the USA
6. February: Luftwaffe receives 300 US: Fighters of the type Starfighter. In the course of the next years fall of it260 machines off. 110 pilots die
15. February: In the governmental district Duesseldorf is used for the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany a radar device for speed measurement
18. March: The American president Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a regulation to the autonomy of Hawaii. Thus Hawaii of the 50 becomes. Federal State of the USA
16. June: Double taxation agreement between Germany and the Netherlands
11. July: Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Luxembourg for the war remuneration 2. World war
20./21. July: Filters of countriesthe OEEC decide the establishment of a European free-trade association (EFTA)
21. July: Double taxation agreement between Germany and France
21. August: Hawaii becomes the 50. Federal State of the USA
12. September: Theodor Heuss separates from the office of the Federal President
7. October: the Prime Minister Iraq, Abdel Karim Kassem, suffers heavy injuries 17 with
an assassination attempt. October: Morocco devalues the currency and leads the new monetary unit Dirham
26. October: Pakistan explains Rawalpindi asnew capital of the Republic of
11. November: Culture agreement between Germany and Egypt and between Germany and Syria. Both into force since that 16. October 1960
15. November: Godesberger program of the SPD
17. November: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Egypt
12. December: in the border area of Paraguay and Argentina a rebellion breaks general off against the regime of the Alfredo Stroessner , it is however rapidly struck down
16. December: President Sukarno extends the state of emergency in Indonesia to indefinite time andmakes itself more and more autocrat
17. December: The choice to Swiss Upper House of Parliament leaves the magic formula 2:2: 2: 1 over its composition reality become for the first time.
21. December: Iran Schah Reza Pahlevi marries the student Farah Diba
China annektiert Tibet
Rising of the people against Chinese occupation Tibets in Lhasa
escape 14. Dalai Lama in the Indian exile
Ché Guevara and Fidel Castro seize 26 with their movement. July (M-26-7) power in Cuba

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economics

LPG- Obligation in the GDR is introduced

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science and technology

2. January: The Soviet satellite „Lunik 1 “flies to the moon
7. July 15.28Uhr MEZ: The planet Venus covers for the first time since that 11. September 1128 the bright fixed star Regulus. The rare event, itself only at the 1. October 2044 will repeat, from astronomers to the diameter regulation of the Venus and for the investigation of the Venusatmosphäre is used. [1]
18. August: „The mini “(British small car) comeson the market
13. September: A Soviet rocket reaches the moon and smashes there
to 4. October: The Soviet space probe Lunik 3 is started, around for the first time pictures of the earthturned away side of the moon to make
18. December: In Hamburgparticle physics is created - research plant German electron synchrotron (DESY).
29. December: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations P. Feynman gives its speech There's plenty to OF Room RK the Bottom, which for the first time the possibilities of the nano-technology suggest

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culture and society

3. February: The Day the music Died
6. February: Premiere of the opera La voix humaine of Francis Poulenc at the Opéra Comique in Paris
26. February: On the painting „the hell fall of the condemned ones “of Peter Paul Rubens becomesin the old person Pinakothek in Munich an acid assassination attempt commits
14. June: Premiere of the opera the deadly desires of Giselher sticks in Duesseldorf
20. September: Premiere of the opera the murder Cäsars of Giselher sticks in meal
29. October:In the first edition of the Comic magazine Pilote the first consequence of Astérix appears le Gaulois
10. November: Premiere of the broadcast opera Przygoda Króla Artura (the adventures king Arturs) of Grażyna Bacewicz in the transmitter radio Warsaw
21. December: Schah Reza Pahlevithird times the novel
marries „ the Memento Mori “from Muriel Spark appears in
the Federal Republic appears the youth magazine „for the first time twen “
the Essener employee Werner Schöppner invents the millionfold play hit „Malefiz “to.
Opening of the museum traffic exhibition
opening of the Louis IANAMuseum for modern trend art

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disasters

3. February: New York, the USA. A turbo-prop. airliner of the American a Lockheed L-188 Electra fell during the landing at the end of the runway of the airport LaGuardia into the East River. Many survived initially the disaster, drowned however then in the ice-cold water. 65 persons died, 8 humans survived
3. February: Varese, Italy. Super a Constellation of the TWA, on the regular flight to Paris, France,about 15 minutes after the start from the airport Milan Malpensa was met by lightning. Subsequently, the Treibstoff-Tanks exploded. All 68 humans on board died
3. February: The Day the music Died
1. November: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A Lockheed Constellation of German Lufthansa, coming on a regular flight from Hamburg , Germany, fell with the approach flight because of poor visibility and violent rain briefly before the coast into the sea. 36 humans died, 3 could be saved
1. December: Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the USA. A traffic machine fell during a landing abort. 25 dead ones
2. December: in Southern France the concrete dam collapses mark-fit . Approx. 421 humans died by the Flutwelle