Atomic Energy Commission yanks the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, former Director of the Atomic Energy Research Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, which developed the first atomic bomb. Ends an ugly chapter that began with the Canwell Committee in the 40s. This set a precedent for the national purge to follow, including McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee which convened a few years later. First nonstop transatlantic flight by a helicopter. Belvoir, Virginia, six soldiers electrocuted while erecting a flagpole at a Little League baseball game.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Immigrant workers were received as comrades. BleedMeisterDave is safely working behind the bar at the Comet Tavern.