1 January: Hank Williams, a famous American Country music singer, nearly dies at a car crash on his way to Canton, Ohio.
6 January: The Singapore Declaration, both Insulindia and the Malayan Federation declared the creation of an organisation of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN for short. It's main purpose would be to promote economic cooperation and peace within the South East Asian region, headquarters are built within the Insulindian capital of Jakarta.
9 January: Marguerite Pitre, an accomplice within the Guay affair, became the last woman to ever be hanged in Canada.
20 January: The MIG-17 officially becomes the mainline fighter jet for Eastern Russia.
25 January: The Rhenish Commune has officially completed the work of agglomerating various syndicate companies within the Ruhr, the old structures of the Junkers were replaced by worker owned steel mills, car factories, and coal mines.
31 January: The
North Sea Flood hits the Batavian commune and the Union of Britain, killing 1,836 people in the Netherlands and 307 in the United Kingdom.
2 February: Naziq al Abid, President of the Republic of Syria, announces that Free Elections for all seats of both the National Assembly and the Senate would be happening in the year 1960, she promises that she will do 'everything in her power to ensure that the voice of the people would be heard.'
5 February: Konrad Adenauer, Daniel Guerin and Clement Attlee announced that they would create a joint 'European Economic Community' for France, Britain, and the various communes of Germany. The leaders of Italy, Wallonia, Switzerland and Batavia expressed interest in such an endeavor as well.
10 February: The Headquarters for the East Asian Coal and Steel community was finally built in Osaka.
13 February:
Christine Jorgensen, the first ever Trans Woman, returns to New York after a successful sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark.
16 February: The
All-India Academy of Sciences is established in the city of Mumbai.
25 February: Jacques Tati's film,
Les Vacances de Monsieur Mulot is released in France.
28 February: James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announces their discovery of the structure of the DNA Molecule.
1 March: All construction within the Japanese Pacific Territories is finished, roads were built, train lines across the cities in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji were finished, and the economic impact was immediate. Commodity prices are dropping due to the easier transport times and with the oncoming elections, the locals are seemingly content with the current arrangement.
15 March:
Operation Ice Cage, a heavily modified Japanese Artillery Piece successfully fires it's first live Nuclear Artillery Shell on the frozen tundras of Siberia. This also marks the second time Japan tests live nuclear weapons, the first one being their test of the country's first Atom Bomb.
18 March: The
Yenice-Gönen earthquake hits Western Turkey, causing at least 1,070 deaths and $3.57 Million in damages.
26 March: Jonas Salk, a scientist living in Hawaii, announces the first Polio Vaccine.
29 March: A fire at a nursing home in Largo, Florida kills 33 people, including singer and songwriter Arthur Fields.
10 April: The Melbourne Knights FC was founded.
15 April: Negotiations between the American Union State and Puerto Rico breaks down, as the AUS government accuses Puerto Rico for stalling the negotiations, while the Puerto Ricans accuse the Americans of pushing in unreasonable terms.
16 April: Huey Long announces that 'within this decade, the Union State would retake Puerto Rico in full.'
17 April: Tetsu Katayama delivers his '
Chance for Peace' speech, he visibly announces the dangers of ideological conflict, nuclear weapons and militarism, and calls for peace and understanding within both the leadership of the CPS and the Third Internationale.
25 April: Francis Crick and James Watson publish the
Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose nucleic Acid. The first ever paper describing the double helix structure of the DNA.
5 May: Aldous Huxley tries the hallucinogen
mescaline, inspiring him to write the book
The Doors of Perception.
9 May: Australian Senate Elections, immigration fears propels Robert Menzies' Liberal party into power within the Australian Senate, potentially ending up in a 'lame duck' session for Ben Chifley's labour government.
10 May: The people of Chemnitz, Prussia, voted against renaming their city to be Karl Marx Stadt.
11 May: Waco Tornado Outbreak, an F5 tornado hits Waco. Killing 114.
16 May: The
Organisation of Flight Standards, or OFS, was founded by various CPS and non CPS nations. They would start establishing communication standards and protocols for civil aviation.
18 May: Mei Yamahito became the first woman to break the sound barrier in her J7W2 Shinden.
29 May: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of
Mt Qomolangma.
June 7-9: Flint-Worcester Tornado Outbreak, a storm system spawns 46 tornados of various sizes throughout America, killing 246 people.
13 June:
Imre Nagy became the leader of the Hungarian Commune.
17 June: The Vladivostok Automobile Factory, or VAZ, was formally created. A result of many businessmen banding together to create the first Russian Automobile Company, it initially produces licensed Toyotas for the Russian Market.
18 June: Tachikawa Air Disaster, An IJAF Transport Plane crashes after takeoff on the Tachikawa Airfield near Tokyo, killing all passengers onboard. The first air crash with a death toll exceeding 100 people and the deadliest air crash of the time.
19 June: The
Baton Rouge bus boycott has begun.
30 June: The first
roll on-roll off ferry crossing took place in the cities of Fukuoka and Busan.
3 July: Hermann Buhl, an Australian climber, made the climb to
Nanga Parbat alone.
5 July: The first assembly of the East Asian Coal and Steel Community took place in Osaka, Japan.
9 July: The Union State Treasury is renamed as the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
10 July: Under current immigration and refugee laws, several thousand European Refugees are eligible to become a citizen of Japan, most, if not all European immigrants took the jump.
23 July:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, is released by 20th Century Fox.
26 July: Reports from Japanese spies indicate that French military officials are planning to build a dedicated, supersonic, multirole aircraft, able to bomb, dogfight, and support infantry if needed. They name this project as the 'Mirage.'
8 August: Clement Attlee announces that the Union of Britain has a Hydrogen Bomb.
12 August: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits the Ionian islands, considered Greece's worst natural disaster in Centuries.
13 August: The first footage of the British test of the Hydrogen bomb were released, the bomb was detonated in northern Canada.
18 August: The second iteration of the Kinsey Reports, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female was published in all languages of the CPS. It predictably caused a stir in Japanese society yet again.
30 August: A simple electrical fire in a house within the outskirts of Tokyo ended in disaster, due to lack of a sprinkler system inside the house and the firefighters arriving too late. The fire consumed the Japanese suburbs, killing some 300 people and even reached parts of Tokyo proper. millions of dollars in damages and countless old, wooden Japanese buildings were lost.
4 September: The first paper discussing
REM sleep was published within the academic journals of Waseda University.
5 September:
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs was born.
26 September: Cane Sugar Rationing was ended in the UoB.
28 September: Although sporadic efforts of relief were underway by the Japanese Government, the Prime Minister has formally issued an order for the army to intervene, building camps and setting up various temporary housing for the thousands of Japanese displaced in the fires.
1 October: In a radical suggestion, Egyptian King Farouk 1 publicly proposes that the Japanese split the revenue of the Canal Zone by 50/50. This would enable Egypt to handle the influx of refugees better and it would lead to decreasing tensions between the locals and the European immigrants.
5 October: The first meeting of
Narcotics Anonymous was held in Tokyo, Japan.
9 October: The West Indies Federation, already facing severe pressure, formally joins the Third Internationale. It is also technically the last surviving Entente nation that has not capitulated. The joining of the West Indies Federation formally marks the end of the Entente Cordiale.
23 October:
Alto Broadcasting System begins airing in the Philippines. Making it the first television broadcast in Southeast Asia. It would later be known as ABS-CBN.
30 October: Tetsu Katayama reluctantly agrees, in accordance with his military advisers, to
expand the Japanese Nuclear Arsenal even further, in order to counter the Syndicalist Threat.
5 November: David Ben Gurion was elected as a member of the Syrian National Assembly.
7 November: Japanese spies have heard that British Military Officials are planning to build an Aircraft that can take off and land vertically, the official code name of the plane is Kestrel.
20 November: The
Nakajima X-2, piloted by Japanese ace Hiroshi Nishizawa, becomes the first plane to reach Mach 2.
25 November:
England loses to Hungary by 6-3, at Wembley Stadium. Known as the Match of the Century, English supporters took to the streets to riot and destroy nearby property.
1 December: Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy Magazine. At $.50 each, it sells by the tens of thousands.
6 December: Conductor
Arturo Toscanini performs
Eroica for the first time, the live performance was broadcasted all across the Internationale by radio, and later released for records and CD's.
17 December: Japanese regulators approve the first sale of colour television for the first time.
30 December: Ramon Magsaysay was inaugurated as the 2nd President of the Philippines.