Sud Aviation forms, from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest).

Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay.

February 23 – The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc opens in Dakar.įlag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence.The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.February 17 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, United States, kills 72 people.February 16 – Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens at cinemas in Sweden.February 15 – Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of the Soviet Union.February 10 – The Confederation of African Football is founded, at a meeting in Khartoum.February 6 – The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison ('possibly of a heart attack'), on July 17, 1947.A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop Coal Mine in Bishop, Virginia, United States, kills 37 men.The first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.February 2 – President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across the Indus River, near Sukkur.January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956).

Eisenhower is privately sworn in for a second term, as President of the United States.

January 15 – The film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is released in Japan.

January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.

January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.

January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns.

January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having handled the ball, in Test cricket.

January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.Establishments and disestablishments categoriesġ957 in various calendars Gregorian calendar

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