February 28 –
Prestonsburg bus disaster: One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurs when a school bus hits a truck and falls into a river, resulting in 27 deaths, 26 of them schoolchildren. Twenty-two others are rescued.[11]
March 1 – Turkish passenger ship
Üsküdar capsizes and sinks in a sudden gale while crossing the
Gulf of İzmit, Turkey; many of the 272 who died were teenage students.[12]
March 8 – The
USS Wisconsin is decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since
1896 (she is recommissioned October 22, 1988).
May 10 – Interviewed in the Chave d'Ouro café, when asked about his rival
António de Oliveira Salazar,
Humberto Delgado utters one of the most famous comments in Portuguese political history: "Obviamente, demito-o! (Obviously, I'll sack him!)".
A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in
Bogotá, Colombia and kills 84 persons.
Soviet polar pilot V. M. Perov on
Li-2 rescues four Belgian polar explorers, led by
Gaston de Gerlache, who have survived a plane crash in
Antarctica 250 km from their base five days earlier.[37]
Denatonium, the
bitterest substance known, is discovered. It is used as an
aversive agent in products such as bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them.[41]
^United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics (1961). Communications Satellites: Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives... U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 448.
^East Asian History. Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. 2000. p. 155.
^Kozovoi, Andrei (January 2, 2016). "A foot in the door: the Lacy–Zarubin agreement and Soviet-American film diplomacy during the Khrushchev era, 1953–1963". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 36 (1): 21–39.
doi:
10.1080/01439685.2015.1134107.
ISSN0143-9685.
S2CID155781953.
^Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division; British Information Services (1959).
Middle East Background. British Information Services. p. 30.
^Dermot J. Englefield; Janet Seaton; Isobel White (1995). Facts about the British prime ministers: a compilation of biographical and historical information. H.W. Wilson Company. p. 301.
^Cuban Information Service (1963). Cuban Information Service, Issues 110–144. pp. 1–8.
^"Beneath the Big Sandy". TIME Magazine. 71 (10): 17. March 10, 1958.
ISSN0040-781X.
^John M. Logsdon (2004). Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. NASA. p. 158.
^"Drumcliff". Sjöhistoriska Samfundet. 1999. Archived from
the original on January 13, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
^Al Hayah, Dar (1960). Majzarat Al Rihab: A Journalistic Investigation on the Death of the Hashemite Royal Family on 14 July 1958 in Baghdad (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar Al Hayah. p. 42.
^Slide, Anthony (1992). Nitrate won't wait: a history of film preservation in the United States. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co. p. 117.
ISBN9780899506944.
^Smith, Alexander (January 28, 2014).
"Tennis Anyone?". They Create Worlds.
Archived from the original on December 25, 2015. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
^"The Research Frontier". Air University Quarterly Review (October). U.S. Air University: 113. 1961.
^Bettinson, Gary (2014). The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 2.
ISBN978-9888139293.
^Chase's calendar of events 2021: the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2020. p. 503.
ISBN9781641434249.
^Conger, Amy (1992). Edward Weston – Photographs From the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1992. Page 45.
ISBN0-938262-21-1
February 28 –
Prestonsburg bus disaster: One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurs when a school bus hits a truck and falls into a river, resulting in 27 deaths, 26 of them schoolchildren. Twenty-two others are rescued.[11]
March 1 – Turkish passenger ship
Üsküdar capsizes and sinks in a sudden gale while crossing the
Gulf of İzmit, Turkey; many of the 272 who died were teenage students.[12]
March 8 – The
USS Wisconsin is decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since
1896 (she is recommissioned October 22, 1988).
May 10 – Interviewed in the Chave d'Ouro café, when asked about his rival
António de Oliveira Salazar,
Humberto Delgado utters one of the most famous comments in Portuguese political history: "Obviamente, demito-o! (Obviously, I'll sack him!)".
A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in
Bogotá, Colombia and kills 84 persons.
Soviet polar pilot V. M. Perov on
Li-2 rescues four Belgian polar explorers, led by
Gaston de Gerlache, who have survived a plane crash in
Antarctica 250 km from their base five days earlier.[37]
Denatonium, the
bitterest substance known, is discovered. It is used as an
aversive agent in products such as bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them.[41]
^United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics (1961). Communications Satellites: Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives... U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 448.
^East Asian History. Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. 2000. p. 155.
^Kozovoi, Andrei (January 2, 2016). "A foot in the door: the Lacy–Zarubin agreement and Soviet-American film diplomacy during the Khrushchev era, 1953–1963". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 36 (1): 21–39.
doi:
10.1080/01439685.2015.1134107.
ISSN0143-9685.
S2CID155781953.
^Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division; British Information Services (1959).
Middle East Background. British Information Services. p. 30.
^Dermot J. Englefield; Janet Seaton; Isobel White (1995). Facts about the British prime ministers: a compilation of biographical and historical information. H.W. Wilson Company. p. 301.
^Cuban Information Service (1963). Cuban Information Service, Issues 110–144. pp. 1–8.
^"Beneath the Big Sandy". TIME Magazine. 71 (10): 17. March 10, 1958.
ISSN0040-781X.
^John M. Logsdon (2004). Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. NASA. p. 158.
^"Drumcliff". Sjöhistoriska Samfundet. 1999. Archived from
the original on January 13, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
^Al Hayah, Dar (1960). Majzarat Al Rihab: A Journalistic Investigation on the Death of the Hashemite Royal Family on 14 July 1958 in Baghdad (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar Al Hayah. p. 42.
^Slide, Anthony (1992). Nitrate won't wait: a history of film preservation in the United States. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co. p. 117.
ISBN9780899506944.
^Smith, Alexander (January 28, 2014).
"Tennis Anyone?". They Create Worlds.
Archived from the original on December 25, 2015. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
^"The Research Frontier". Air University Quarterly Review (October). U.S. Air University: 113. 1961.
^Bettinson, Gary (2014). The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 2.
ISBN978-9888139293.
^Chase's calendar of events 2021: the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2020. p. 503.
ISBN9781641434249.
^Conger, Amy (1992). Edward Weston – Photographs From the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1992. Page 45.
ISBN0-938262-21-1