January: An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads tae the deaths o Seán Sou an Fergal O'Hanlon.
5t January : The president Eisenhower demands tae the Congress special pawers tae struggle agains Communist menace in Near-East.
9t January: Martin Luther King foonds the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
23t January: Ku Klux Klan members farce the truck driver Willie Edwards tae spring off a bridge intae the Alabama Strict; he drowns as a result.
February: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
25t Mairch: The Rome Treaty is ratified bi the Five Members o the Economic European Community.
26 Mairch – 22-year-auld Elvis Presley buys Graceland on 3734 Bellevue Boulevard (Highway 51 South) far 100,000 US dollars. He and his family dwell from the housie on 1034 Audubon Drive.
Mey: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's goveirnment an he fall in Colombia.
Kim Tu-bong, president o the People's Supreme Assembly, opponent o Kim Il-sung is killed in North Korea
24t September: Nine black bairns are expelsit frae a schuil in Little Rock (Arkansas) bi alot o fowks. Eisenhower sends thoosand parachutists thair tae mak the schuil respect the law.
The Saare (Saarland) is integrated bi the Federal Republic o Germany.
