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The world's first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, designed by de Havilland, goes into service with BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation)
US evangelist Billy Graham forms the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, to take the Christian message to the world
The Canadian schooner St Roch becomes the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal and the Northwest Passage, thus circumnavigating North America
North Korean forces press far enough south to capture the South Korean capital of Seoul
The British government bans hereditary ruler Seretse Khama from Bechuanaland because he has married a white woman
German-born US philosopher Hannah Arendt links Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hans Werner Henze's first full-length opera, Boulevard Solitude, has its premiere in Hanover
Albanian missionary Mother Teresa opens the Nirmal Hriday, or Kalighat Home for Dying Destitutes, in Calcutta
Anglican vicar Chad Varah, using the crypt of a London church, sets up the first branch of what becomes the Samaritans
Arthur Miller's play The Crucible uses the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for the contemporary paranoia of McCarthyism
Politician and author Winston Churchill completes his six-volume history The Second World War
Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launches the Unification Church, a mission to unify world Christianity
Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway
The first Disneyland opens in California, an event watched on television by 90 million Americans
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is performed in New York
Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south
Eugene O'Neill's searing account of tensions within his own family, Long Day's Journey into Night, has its premiere in Stockholm
Hans Werner Henze's opera The Stag King has its premiere in Berlin
US novelist Mary McCarthy describes the religious pressures she grew up with in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
In Syntactic Structures Noam Chomsky proposes the revolutionary theory that humans inherit an innate universal grammar
US paratroops enforce desegregation in Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas
Boris Pasternak's only novel, Doctor Zhivago, is first published in an Italian translation
French Algerians seize government buildings in Algiers, in a campaign to ensure that Algerian remains French
Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London
Angelo Roncalli is elected pope and takes the name John XXIII
