King Farouk I abdicates after Gen. Mohammed Naguik leads a successful anticorruption coup.

22 Aug.

West German movie theaters show the movie The Desert Fox, a sympathetic depiction of German World War II general Erwin Rommel, after a ten-month delay caused by American objections.

27 Aug.

Nonwhites are removed from electoral rolls in South Africa.

28 Aug.

The Third World Conference on Faith and Order in Lund, Sweden, closes without reaching agreement on uniting Christian religions.

18 Sept.

The Soviet Union vetoes UN admission for Japan.

22 Sept.

Sears, Roebuck and Company forms a partnership with the Toronto mail-order house Simpson, Ltd.

22 Oct.

The American Biblical Encyclopedia Society publishes the Torah in English for the first time.

4 Nov.

Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president of the United States.

15 Dec.

Communist China rejects the UN's Korean truce plan.