The Public Health Service in Washington, D.C., announced that manufacturers would soon be producing a more powerful vaccine for the so-called "Asian influenza" and said that many people who had already been vaccinated should receive a second shot.[1]
At a meeting of the NACA Subcommittee on Fluid Mechanics on November 12 and 13, it was stated that many aspects of space flight and astronautics would depend heavily on research advances in the field that had been broadly termed fluid mechanics. Research in this area involved internal and external gas flows associated with high-speed flights within the atmosphere and reentry into the atmosphere of spacecraft vehicles. The subcommittee recommended to the NACA that research in these matters be intensified.[61]
American physicist Gordon Gould, then a graduate student at Columbia University, had a page of his notebook notarized at a candy store. The page contained notes headed, "Some rough calculations on the feasibility of a LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation".[97]
Paramount Pictures released the aviation drama film Zero Hour!, directed by Hall Bartlett. According to New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, "This isn't the sort of picture you'd want to see before embarking on a flight, but it is an exciting contemplation of a frightening adventure in the skies."[98] It would be remade in 1980 as the parody film Airplane!
Preston R. Bassett of the NACA Committee on Aerodynamics presented a resolution urging the NACA to adopt an aggressive program in space research technology.[61]
French troops killed 42 Algerian rebels and captured 10. Six French soldiers were killed.[151]
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) established a Special Committee on Space Technology to study and delineate problem areas that must be solved to make space flight a practical reality and to consider and recommend means for attacking these problems. Dr. H. Guyford Stever of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was named chairman.[61]
The Rocket and Satellite Research Panel recommended the creation of a National Space Establishment in the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. According to the proposal, activities of this agency would be under civilian leadership, and the organization would be charged with formulating and supervising a space research program. An annual budget of $1 billion for a period of 10 years was recommended.[61]
Over one-half of the NACA Propulsion Conference on November 21 and 22 was devoted to the discussion of possible space propulsion systems. Three particular systems appeared to afford excellent choices for such purposes. These were: the chemical rocket, the nuclear rocket, and the nuclear electric rocket. It was the considered opinion of the conference members that the chemical rocket would be quite adequate for a round trip to the Moon.[61]
A fire started by a clothes iron in the tailor's shop of Oakwood Hospital in Maidstone, Kent, England, caused the central tower of the hospital to collapse after the fire was under control, killing three firefighters, a patient, and two hospital staff members. 15 people were injured.[219][220]
The U.S. Air Force unveiled the pressure suit to be used for its X-15 flight program.[221]
In what The New York Times called a "freakish mishap", 32-year-old Patrolman Joseph L. Rauchut of the New York City Police Department died during a traffic stop on the Queens side of the Kosciusko Bridge when a truck struck his parked patrol car, which struck and killed him.[234][235]
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