| 1. Walter Baade, American astronomer, d. (b. 1893) |
| 2. American Heart Association issues a report attributing higher death rates among middle-aged men to heavy smoking of cigarettes |
| 3. K.H. Hofmann (German) synthesizes pituitary hormone |
| 4. Nobel Prize for Chemistry: W.F. Libby for his work in archaelogical dating techniques using radioactive carbon 14 |
| 5. First weather satellite, Tiros I, launched by U.S. to transmit TV images of cloud cover around the world |
| 6. Optical microwave laser constructed |
| 7. U.S. experimental rocket-powered airplane travels at almost 2200 mph |
| 8. Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology: F.M. Burnet (Australian) and P.B. Medawar (British) for their discovery of acquired immunity against foreign tissue |
| 9. Lt. Don Walsh (U.S. Navy) accompanies Jacques Piccard, French bathynut, on dive of the bathyscaphe "Triest" to record 35,800 feet in the Pacific near Guam |
| 10. U.S. scientists develop laser device (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) |
| 11. G.N. Robinson (British) discovers methicilin |
| 12. Maurice de Broglie, French physicist, d. (b.1875) |
| 13. Nobel Prize for Physics: D.A. Glaser (U.S.) for his invention of the bubble-chamber for the study of subatomic particles |
| 14. "Triton," U.S. nuclear submarine, completes first circumnavigation of the globe under water |
| 15. Strell and Woodward independently synthesize chlorophyll |
| 16. U.S. launches a radio-reflector satellite |
| 17. R.L. Mossbauer (U.S.) makes important gamma ray discoveries |
| 18. A.L. Kroeber, U.S. anthropologist, d. (b. 1876) |
| 19. A.B. Joffe, Russian physicist, d. (b. 1880) |
