suicide, after being accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder his chief political opponent, Carlos Lacerda. September September 6 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) treaty is signed in Manila, Philippines. September 8 – SEATO is established in Bangkok, Thailand. September 9 – The 6.7 Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The shock destroys Orléansville, leaving 1,243–1,409 dead, and 5,000 injured. September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time. September 14 The Soviet Union carries out the Totskoye nuclear exercise. English composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy. September 15 – Black Wednesday in air travel: severe delays to flights, due to bad weather, occur along the East Coast of the United States. September 17 – William Golding's allegorical dystopian novel Lord of the Flies is published in London. September 18 – Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi is the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin. September 20 – The first Moomins comic strip is published in the London newspaper The Evening News. September 25 – Footscray Football Club wins their first Australian Football League Grand Final. September 26 – Japanese ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed, 7 other ships are wrecked, and at least nine others seriously damaged. September 27 – The Tonight Show first airs on live television on NBC in the United States being the first late night talk show. September 30 – The , the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the U.S. Navy. October October 11 Pre-Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam. Hurricane Hazel crosses over Haiti, killing 1,000. October 15 – Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall; it is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolina October 18 Texas Instruments announces the development of the first commercial transistor radio. The Regency TR-1 goes on sale the following month. The comic strip Hi and Lois, by Mort Walker and Dik Browne, is launched in the United States. October 23 West Germany joins NATO. Paris Agreement sets up the Western European Union to implement the Treaty of