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- The
IAEA officially comes into existence 29 July, the day when the required
number of Member
States ratify the Statute.
- In October, delegates from 59 States attend
the first General
Conference of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria.
- The IAEA's first Board
of Governors includes 23 Member States: Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, Union of South
Africa, USSR, United Arab Republic (Egypt), United Kingdom, and USA.
- In
France, countries agree to set up the European Nuclear
Energy Agency of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation
(today the NEA of the OECD).
- Six European countries sign the "Rome
treaties" establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and
the Common Market.
- The
Soviet Union announces the launching of the first satellite into outer
space,
the unmanned Sputnik-I.
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