After thousands in Tokyo riot in protest to the visit of President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the U.S.-Japan treaty, Japan cancels the meeting. Castro seizes Texaco refinery. Russia orbits a satellite carrying two dogs and brings them back alive the next day. South Africa votes to leave the British Commonwealth and become a republic. John F. Kennedy elected president in close vote.
Police hose down rioting white mobs in New Orleans.
U.S. Navy begins peace patrols in Caribbean.