Ma Yinchu, non-party delegate to the National People's Congress and author of "New Population Thoery" is attacked by the Chinese government as a "rightist" for opposing its pro-natalist policy. China's population reaches 672.07 million.
Timeline
January 1: Cuban President Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba. Around 2 a.m. Batista, his family, and closest associates, board a plane at Camp Columbia. Revolutionary forces take control of Havana. Rebel leader Fidel Castro takes control of the government the next day.
January 2: Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos arrive in Havana.
January 3: Alaska is the 49th state admitted to the Union.
February 9: Che Guevara is declared a Cuban citizen.
March 29: The aircraft of charismatic figure Central African Republican Prime Minister Barthelemy Boganda crashes in Boda district, killing all aboard. Sabotage by expat French businss types and French Secret Service is suspected.
May 17: Murder of Kelso Cochrane in Kensal New Town.
August 17: Mao Zedong's rhetorical pro-natalism runs wild: "[Our] views on population should change. In the past I said that [we] could mqanage with 800 million. Now I think that one billion plus would be no cause for alarm." Source: MacFarquhar et al., Secret Speeches, "Talks at Beiheide Conference," p. 403.
August 21: Hawaii joins the United States as the 50th state. Republican President Dwight W. Eisenhower signs the official declaration. Statehood fopr Hawaii had been discussed as early as 1849.
August 31: Attempted parcel bomb assassination of Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk by Ngo Dinh Nhu, South Vietnamese intelligence director and brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
October 7: Che Guevara is appointed Minister of the Department of Industry of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA).
