October 11th 1957.

The Orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket carrying Sputnik I was first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M.I.T. Computation Center and Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

October 12th 1957

Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize

these shows debuted:

Leave it to Beaver
American Bandstand made its national debut (Philadelphia had been airing it locally since 1952)

Buddy Holly and the Crickets had their first hit with "That'll be the Day"

The movie that nobody can watch without a box of Kleenex handy, "Old Yeller" also came that year.

October 14, 1957

Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1

October 24th 1957 - the USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.

October 26th 1957 - Vatican Radio begins broadcasting

October 28th 1957 - WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting

November 1st 1957 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

November 2nd 1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.

November 3rd 1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika the Russian space dog as the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit. 

November 6th 1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France

October 14, 1957

Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1
I like the You Tube videos of same.

November 7th 1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

November 16th 1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.

November 25th 1957 - President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech.

December 5th 1957 - Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.

December 6th 1957 – Project Vanguard: An attempt to launch the first American satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

December 19th 1957 - "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1375 performances.

December 20th 1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service

Here are the biggest hits in America in 1957, according to Billboard magazine!

1  ALL SHOOK UP - Elvis Presley (#1)
2  LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND - Pat Boone (#1)
3  LITTLE DARLIN' - Diamonds
4  YOUNG LOVE - Tab Hunter (#1)
5  SO RARE - Jimmy Dorsey
6  DON'T FORBID ME - Pat Boone
7  SINGING THE BLUES - Guy Mitchell (#1)
8  YOUNG LOVE - Sonny James
9  TOO MUCH - Elvis Presley (#1)
10  ROUND AND ROUND - Perry Como (#1)

11 BYE BYE LOVE - Everly Brothers
12 TAMMY - Debbie Reynolds (#1)
13 PARTY DOLL - Buddy Knox (#1)
14 (LET ME BE YOUR) TEDDY BEAR c/w LOVING YOU - Elvis Presley (#1)
15 BANANA BOAT (DAY-O) - Harry Belafonte
16 JAILHOUSE ROCK - Elvis Presley (#1)
17 A WHITE SPORT COAT (AND A PINK CARNATION) - Marty Robbins
18 COME GO WITH ME - Dell-Vikings
19 WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE - Everly Brothers (#1)
20 YOU SEND ME - Sam Cooke (#1)

21 SEARCHIN' - Coasters
22 SCHOOL DAY - Chuck Berry
23 GONE - Ferlin Husky
24 DIANA - Paul Anka (#1)
25 A TEENAGER'S ROMANCE - Ricky Nelson
26 THE BANANA BOAT SONG - Tarriers
27 HONEYCOMB - Jimmie Rodgers (#1)
28 WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON - Jerry Lee Lewis
29 DARK MOON - Gale Storm
30 THAT'LL BE THE DAY - Crickets (#1)

31 BUTTERFLY - Charlie Gracie
32 MOONLIGHT GAMBLER - Frankie Laine
33 TEENAGE CRUSH - Tommy Sands
34 IT'S NOT FOR ME TO SAY - Johnny Mathis
35 SILHOUETTES - Rays
36 BUTTERFLY - Andy Williams
37 MARIANNE - Terry Gilkyson & The Easy Riders
38 I'M WALKIN' - Fats Domino
39 CHANCES ARE - Johnny Mathis
40 SEND FOR ME - Nat "King " Cole

41 RAINBOW - Russ Hamilton
42 BE-BOP BABY - Ricky Nelson
43 SHORT FAT FANNY - Larry Williams
44 THE GREEN DOOR - Jim Lowe
45 I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER - Billy Williams
46 OLD CAPE COD - Patti Page
47 MR LEE - Bobbettes
48 BLUEBERRY HILL - Fats Domino
49 WHISPERING BELLS - Dell-Vikings
50 BLUE MONDAY - Fats Domino


And the 25 biggest hits on the UK for the same year are:

1  LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND - Pat Boone
2  DIANA - Paul Anka (#1)
3  ALL SHOOK UP - Elvis Presley (#1)
4  YOUNG LOVE - Tab Hunter (#1)
5  ISLAND IN THE SUN - Harry Belafonte
6  TEDDY BEAR - Elvis Presley
7  YES, TONIGHT JOSEPHINE - Johnnie Ray (#1)
8  DON'T FORBID ME - Pat Boone
9  WHEN I FALL IN LOVE - Nat 'King' Cole
10 LONG TALL SALLY - Little Richard

11 LET'S HAVE A PARTY - Elvis Presley
12 GAMBLIN' MAN c/w PUTTIN' ON THE STYLE - Lonnie Donegan (#1)
13 MARY'S BOY CHILD - Harry Belafonte (#1)
14 THAT'LL BE THE DAY - Crickets (#1)
15 GARDEN OF EDEN - Frankie Vaughan (#1)
16 SINGING THE BLUES - Guy Mitchell
17 BUTTERFLY - Andy Williams (#1)
18 ROCK-A-BILLY - Guy Mitchell (#1)
19 SINGING THE BLUES - Tommy Steele (#1)
20 ALL THE WAY - Frank Sinatra

21 WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE - Everly Brothers
22 TAMMY - Debbie Reynolds
23 I LOVE YOU BABY - Paul Anka
24 REMEMBER YOU'RE MINE - Pat Boone
25 APRIL LOVE - Pat Boone

January 18th 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.

January 19 1958 - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League

January 21st 1958 - The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator.

January 26th 1958 - Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.

January 28th 1958: Lego first produced the modern style of building brick

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/lego08.gif

January 28th 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.

January 29th 1958 - Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward wed

January 31st 1958 -


Explorer program: Explorer I - The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.

February 1st 1958 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.

February 5th 1958 – A hydrogen bomb now known as the Tybee Bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.

February 6th 1958 – British European Airways Flight 609, carrying the Manchester United football team, a number of supporters and journalists, crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others.

February 7th 1958 - Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced.

February 8th 1968 - American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students.

February 19th 1958 - Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records

February 21st 1958 – British artist Gerald Holtom designed a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that became more commonly known as the peace symbol.

February 22nd 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

February 23rd 1958 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.

February 27th 1958 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.

February 28th 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.

March 1st 1958 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.

March 3rd 1958 - Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.

March 5th 1958:


Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.

March 12th 1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"

March 16th 1958 - Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.

March 17th 1958 – Vanguard 1 the first solar-powered satellite, was launched. It is the oldest human-launched object still in Earth orbit today.

March 25th 1958 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.

March 26th 1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer 3.

March 27th 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

April 4th 1958 - The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.

April 10th 1958 - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco

April 14th 1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.

April 18th 1958 - A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.

May 13th 1958:

During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
Velcro's trade mark is registered.

May 15th 1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.

May 18th 1958 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).

May 19th 1958 - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks

May 19th 1958 - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks


Did any songs from the album go number one in the singles chart?

Did any songs from the album go number one in the singles chart?
Not in this case.

The only South Pacific song I know (with further research required) is Happy Talk by Captain Sensible which did reached #1 in the UK Charts in 1982

May 21st 1958 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.

May 23rd 1958 - Explorer 1 (also known as satellite 1958 Alpha) the first Earth satellite ceases transmission.

May 24th 1958 - United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.

May 27th 1958 - The F-4 Phantom II (an American two-seat, twin-engined, all-weather, long-range supersonic fighter-bomber) flies for the first time.

May 30th 1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington

June 1sr 1958 - Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.

June 9th 1958 - London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, UK officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

June 23rd 1958 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.

July 1st 1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.

July 5th 1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.

July 7th 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statheood Act into United States law.

July 10th 1958 - Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.

July 14th 1958 – King Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.

July 25th 1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.

July 26th 1958 - Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.

I may be a little late for this, but 1958 was the year that two Major League Baseball teams moved west, namely the New York (turned San Francisco) Giants and the Brooklyn (turned Los Angeles) Dodgers. The Dodgers played their home games in the Los Angeles Coliseum and posted a losing record during their first season on the West Coast.

July 29th 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-military space agency known as NASA.

August 3rd 1958 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus made the world's first submerged voyage across the North Pole.

August 3rd 1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded

August 3rd 1958 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus made the world's first submerged voyage across the North Pole.


That sub was built in Groton, Connecticut - not too far from where I'm living now

That sub was built in Groton, Connecticut - not too far from where I'm living now
August 5th 1958 - Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole

August 6th 1958 - Australian runner Herb Elliot broke the world record for the mile at the Morton Stadium in Dublin, in a time of 3:54.5.

Hey...on August 16, 1958, pop singer Madonna was born, as Madonna Louise Ciccone, in Bay City, Michigan.

She's been making music for half her life now.

Auguust 18th 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

Hey...on August 16, 1958, pop singer Madonna was born, as Madonna Louise Ciccone, in Bay City, Michigan.

She's been making music for half her life now.

Auguust 18th 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
So Madonna is two days older than Lolita.

August 23rd 1958 – The People's Liberation Army began an intense artillery bombardment of Quemoy , sparking the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

August 29th 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

I was actually young!!!

September 15th 1958 - A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.

September 28th 1958 - France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.

October 1st 1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.

October 2nd 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.

October 4th 1958 - Fifth Republic of France is established.

  October 6,1955  - A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people

October 7th 1958 – Attempting to control the political instability in Pakistan, President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 constitution, imposed martial law, and cancelled the elections scheduled for January 1959.

October 7th 1958 - U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.

October 13th 1958 - Paddington Bear first appeared.

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/paddington50th.gif

October 14th 1958 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.

October 23rd 1958 – In his comic series Johan and Peewit in the weekly magazine Spirou, Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of small sky blue characters known as The Smurfs.

October 23rd 1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump - An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.

October 26th 1958 - Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.

October 27th 1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.

November 10th 1958 - The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

November 15th 1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.

November 28th 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community

December 1st 1958 - The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns.

December 1st 1958 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.

December 4th 1958 - Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.

December 5th 1958 - The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.

December 9th 1958 - Red Scare: The John Birch Society was founded in the United States.

December 11th 1958 - Upper Volta gains self-government from France, and becomes an autonomous republic in the French Community

December 14th 1958 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.

December 23rd 1958 - Dedication of Tokyo Tower, world's highest self-supporting iron tower.

December 28th 1958 - "Greatest Game Ever Played" - Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

January 1st 1959 - Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.

January 2nd 1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon, was launched by the Vostok rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.

January 3rd 1959 – The Alaska Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, became the 49th state of the union, and the first U.S. state outside of the 48 contiguous states.

January 4th 1959 - Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

It was exactly 50 years ago to the day when three young musicians---Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Valens---lost their lives in a plane crash. :\'(

February 16th 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

February 17th 1959 - Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 - The first weather satellite launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

February 18th 1979 - Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only recorded time in history.

February 19th 1959 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence, which is then on formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.

February 22nd 1959 – Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway (pictured) in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.

March 9th 1959 – Barbie, the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.

March 10th 1959 – An anti-Chinese uprising erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, as about 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace to prevent the 14th Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

March 17th 1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

March 18th 1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statheood, which would become official on August 21.

March 24th 1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.

March 31st 1959 - The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.

April 9th 1959 – NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts in Project Mercury.

April 25th 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.

April 27th 1959 – The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.

April 27th 1959 – The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.


and Scottish pop singer Sheena Easton -- who would make her debut in the early 1980s -- was born.

May 30th 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham.

June 14th 1959 – A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo's power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement).

June 18th 1959 – Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.

June 20th 1959 – A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.

June 26th 1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.

July 4th 1959 – With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

July 7th 1959 – 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

July 15th 1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.

July 20th 1959 – The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain.

July 24th 1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".

July 25th 1959 – SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.

July 29th 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.

August 7th 1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.

August 7th 1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

October 8, 1959: The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series by defeating the Chicago White Sox in Game 6 at Comiskey Park.

October 8, 1959: The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series by defeating the Chicago White Sox in Game 6 at Comiskey Park.

First World series played on the West Coast. Amazing that Chicago had beat out the Yankees for the Pennant that year

November 1st 1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante was struck in the face by a puck shot by Andy Bathgate of the New York Rangers. He was taken to the dressing room to recieve stitches and refused to go back in the game unless he wore his mask. Habs' coach Hector "Toe" Blake had no substitute goalie and he reluctantly permitted Plante to go back in the game with his legendary mask for the first time in an NHL game.

2nd November 1959: Britain's most famous road and one of the country's best known service stations are celebrating a big birthday.

Both the M1 and Watford Gap are celebrating 50 years of iconic road travel by acknowledging their more famous users and offering 1959 prices.

The latter is even staging a play paying homage to the many travelling musicians from The Beatles and Dusty Springfield to The Rolling Stones, who have used it as a roadside watering hole.

Previously called the Blue Boar, the services became so talked about among stars that Jimi Hendrix mistook it for a London nightclub.
 
Beyond its celebrity fans, the arrival of the M1 also ushered in a new age of high-speed road travel. It had no speed limit and with just five million registered cars in the UK there was certainly no traffic. 

January 1st 1960 - US census at 179,245,000

Michael Stipe, lead singer of southern rock band R.E.M., was born 50 years ago today.

January 4th 1960 - European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm.

January 18th 1960 - US & Japan sign joint defense treaty

January 19th 1960 - Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact

January 20th 1960 - Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo

On January 28, 1960, the National Football League awarded franchises to Dallas and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

January 30th 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.

February 1st 1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

February 3rd 1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.

February 18, 1960: the 8th Winter Olympic Games were formally opened in Squaw Valley, California, by Vice President Richard M. Nixon.

March 3, 1960: Lucille Ball files for divorce from her husband of not quite twenty years, Desi Arnaz, one day after his 43rd birthday. (Also, on the previous day, the couple had just finished filming their final "Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" episode.) (The divorce would be finalized two months later.) :\'( :\'(

June 30th 1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.

July 11th 1960 – Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.

July 11th 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

August 5th 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.

shouldn't there be a 60s forum? sure, most of us weren't alive (or can't remember much of) the 60s, but it seems ridiculous to lump them in with like the 1800's or whatever. there's still tons of 60s nostalgia. i mean a 49 year old today would have remembered a lot of things from the 60s!

July 11th 1960 – Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.


July 11th 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

And I was negative twenty! :)

August 6th 1960 – Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

September 5th 1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.

September 5th 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

September 5th 1960 – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

Here are the top 50 biggest hits in the U.S. for 1960:

1 THEME FROM "A SUMMER PLACE" - Percy Faith Orchestra
2 HE'LL HAVE TO GO - Jim Reeves
3 CATHY'S CLOWN - Everly Brothers
4 RUNNING BEAR - Johnny Preston
5 TEEN ANGEL - Mark Dinning
6 I'M SORRY - Brenda Lee
7 IT'S NOW OR NEVER - Elvis Presley
8 HANDY MAN - Jimmy Jones
9 STUCK ON YOU - Elvis Presley
10 THE TWIST - Chubby Checker

11 EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL - Connie Francis
12 WILD ONE - Bobby Rydell
13 GREENFIELDS - Brothers Four
14 WHAT IN THE WORLD'S COME OVER YOU? - Jack Scott
15 EL PASO - Marty Robbins
16 ALLEY-OOP - Hollywood Argyles
17 MY HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN - Connie Francis
18 SWEET NOTHIN'S - Brenda Lee
19 ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI - Brian Hyland
20 ONLY THE LONELY - Roy Orbison

21 WHERE OR WHEN - Dion & The Belmonts
22 SIXTEEN REASONS - Connie Stevens
23 PUPPY LOVE - Paul Anka
24 WHY - Frankie Avalon
25 WALK, DON'T RUN - Ventures
26 SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME - Drifters
27 BABY (YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES) - Brook Benton & Dinah Washington
28 SINK THE BISMARK - Johnny Horton
29 CHAIN GANG - Sam Cooke
30 LET IT BE ME - Everly Brothers

31 GOOD TIMIN' - Jimmy Jones
32 BEYOND THE SEA - Bobby Darin
33 GO JIMMY GO - Jimmy Clanton
34 NIGHT - Jackie Wilson
35 BURNING BRIDGES - Jack Scott
36 BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNG - Duane Eddy
37 LONELY BLUE BOY - Conway Twitty
38 THE BIG HURT - Toni Fisher
39 PRETTY BLUE EYES - Steve Lawrence
40 WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS - Freddie Cannon

41 PAPER ROSES - Anita Bryant
42 MR CUSTER - Larry Verne
43 I WANT TO BE WANTED - Brenda Lee
44 MULE SKINNER BLUES - Fendermen
45 CRADLE OF LOVE - Johnny Preston
46 PLEASE HELP ME, I'M FALLING - Hank Locklin
47 YOU'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES - Marv Johnson
48 LOVE YOU SO - Ron Holden
49 FINGER POPPIN' TIME - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
50 HARBOR LIGHTS - Platters

Here are the top 20 biggest songs in the U.K. for 1960:

1 CATHY'S CLOWN - Everly Brothers
2 PLEASE DON'T TEASE - Cliff Richard & the Shadows
3 THE GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND c/w A MESS OF BLUES - Elvis Presley
4 HANDY MAN - Jimmy Jones
5 APACHE - Shadows
6 IT'S NOW OR NEVER - Elvis Presley
7 WHY? - Anthony Newley
8 SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME - Drifters
9 BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNG - Duane Eddy
10 SHAKIN' ALL OVER - Johnny Kidd & the Pirates

11 POETRY IN MOTION - Johnny Tillotson
12 TELL LAURA I LOVE HER - Ricky Valance
13 RUNNING BEAR - Johnny Preston
14 MAMA c/w ROBOT MAN - Connie Francis
15 AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME - Shirley Bassey
16 FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - Cliff Richard
17 GOOD TIMIN' {tied} - Jimmy Jones
17 POOR ME {tied} - Adam Faith
17 THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN {tied} - Eddie Cochran
17 DO YOU MIND {tied} - Anthony Newley

September 26th 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

September 26th 1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.

September 28th 1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.

The Flinstones celebrates 50 years today, and boy, do 50 years ago today seem like the Stone Age compared to today (even those who see films from that era can feel it!) Yabba-dabba-doo!

The Flinstones celebrates 50 years today, and boy, do 50 years ago today seem like the Stone Age compared to today (even those who see films from that era can feel it!) Yabba-dabba-doo!

Yep, the Google homepage even has a special 'Doodle' honoring it!! :)

http://www.google.com/logos/2010/flintstones10-hp.jpg

Yep, the Google homepage even has a special 'Doodle' honoring it!! :)

http://www.google.com/logos/2010/flintstones10-hp.jpg


Yabba-Dabba-Doo!

They (The Flinstones) were a legend for TV...if it wasn't for "The Flinstones"...we wouldn't have Prime Time Animation Domination!

October 17th 1960 - "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances

October 17th 1960 - US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases

October 29th 1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

October 30th 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

October 31st 1960 - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die

November 1st 1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.

I believe that was also the day that the Mexican pro baseball pitcher Fernando Valenzuela (who spent a good part of his career with the L.A. Dodgers) was born. He now serves as a Spanish-language broadcaster for the Dodgers.

November 7th 1960 - KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcasting

November 8th 1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.

November 11th 1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.

November 13th 1960 - Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt

November 14th 1960 - Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on it's Congo-policy

November 19th 1960 - Mickey Vernon is hired as first manager of new Washington team

November 23rd 1960 - Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year

November 23rd 1960 - Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St

November 23rd 1960 - Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched

November 24th 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)

1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.

1960 - CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series

1960 - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins

Nov 26, 1960 - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins

And a new "Washington Senators" baseball franchise would be born, eventually evolving into the Texas Rangers.

1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.

1960 - French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons

1960 - Tad Mosels "All the Way Home," premieres in NYC

1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.

1960 - Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium

1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.

1960 - Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in New York NY

1960 – Troops loyal to Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.

1960 – 1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground were killed.

1960 - Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction in Brooklyn (50 die)

1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight

1960 - Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)

1960 – National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.

1960 – The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.

1961 first AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat Los Angeles Chargers 24-16

1961 Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14ºF recorded atop Haleakale

1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.

1961 – The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.

1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.

1961 - Supremes signed with Motown Records

1961 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".

1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.

January 20, 1961: John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States, giving a famous speech, which included the famous line "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

January 25, 1961: In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.

1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.

1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.

1961 – U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.

1961 - Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Brothers Records

1961 – The DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art, was chartered.

1961 - Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater

1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.

1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.

1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title

1961 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes president of US Communist Party

1961 - The New Testament of the New English Bible was simultaneously published by both the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. (The complete Old & New Testament of the NEB was published in 1970.)

1961 – South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.

1961 - Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced

1961 - "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances

1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.

Saddest song I ever heard has to be "Put My Little Shoes Away," sung by the Everly Brothers and previously recorded by Hank Snow. It's about a dying child.

"Mother dear come bathe my forehead,
For I'm growing very weak.
Mother let one drop of water
Fall upon my burning cheek.
I'm going away to leave you, Mother darling,
And remember what I say.
Do this, won't you please, dear Mother,
Put my little shoes away.
Santa Claus, he brought 'em to me,
With a lot of other things.
I believe he brought an angel
With a pair of golden wings.

Tell my lovin' little playmates
That I nevermore will play.
Give them all my toys, but Mother
Put my little shoes away.
I'm going away to leave you, Mother darling
And remember what I say.
Do this, won't you please, dear Mother,
Put my little shoes away."

1961 - Connie Mack Stadium in Phila is sold to J Schleifer Properties

1961 – A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.

1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.

1961 - 15th Tony Awards: Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win

1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1961 – Armed Cuban exiles backed by the CIA invaded Cuba, landing in the Bay of Pigs, with the aim of overthrowing the Cuban government under Fidel Castro.

1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.

1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.

1961 – The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.

1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.

1961 - French army revolts in Algeria

1961 – The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.

1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.

1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.

1961 – Project Mercury: Aboard the American spacecraft Freedom 7, astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital flight, becoming the second person to travel into outer space after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Here are the top grossing films in the U.S. 50 years ago, in 1961:

Rank; Title; Studio; Actors; Gross
1. One Hundred and One Dalmatians; Walt Disney Productions; Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson and Cate Bauer (voices); $68,648,000
2. West Side Story; United Artists; Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer; $19,646,000
3. The Guns of Navarone; Columbia; Gregory Peck and David Niven; $13,000,000
4. El Cid; Allied Artists; Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren; $12,000,000
5. Splendor in the Grass; Warner Bros.; Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty; $11,426,000
6. Breakfast at Tiffany's; Paramount; Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard; $11,322,000
7. Blue Hawaii; Paramount; Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman; $10,440,453
8. La Dolce Vita; Astor/AIP; Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg; $8,000,000
9. Lover Come Back; Universal; Doris Day and Rock Hudson; $7,625,000
10. The Parent Trap; Walt Disney Productions; Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith; $7,322,000

1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.

1961 - "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1

1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.

1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.

1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.

1961 – Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

1961 – In the Vienna summit, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.

1961 – The last service trains ran on the Hawkhurst Branch Line in Kent, England.

1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.

1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.

1961 – Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.

1961 – Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death tally exceeds 2,000.

1961 – Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.

1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.

1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.

1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.

On August 4, 1961, Barack Obama, the current President of the United States, was born, in the state of Hawaii.

On August 4, 1961, Barack Obama, the current President of the United States, was born, in the state of Hawaii.


If the Donald were here, he'd question the "Hawaii" location of birth.  ;D

1961 – The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.

1961 – Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.

1961 – Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.

1961 – President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power.

1961 - Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on "What's My Line"

1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.

1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.

1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.

1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.

1961 – The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.

1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.

1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

1961 – Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.

1961 – The U.S. Congress authorized President John F. Kennedy's executive order to establish the Peace Corps

1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.

1961 – The southern portion of British Cameroons merged with Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

1961 – The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States.

1961 – Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.

1961 – The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf class submarine.

1961 - 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium

1961 – NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

1961 – Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.

1961 – Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.

1961 – The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Ocean as a test.

1961 – Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.

1961 – 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.

1961 – thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.

1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

1961 - The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened at New Delhi, India, during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.

1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

1961 – The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.

1961 – The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations.

1961 – In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

1961 – India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.

1961 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.'

1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.

1962 – United States Navy SEALs established.

Also on New Year's Day in 1962:

Western Samoa became independent of New Zealand.
The Beatles (with Pete Best) auditioned in London for Decca Records, which opted to sign Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.

1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

January 8, 1962:

Two commuter trains collide in a thick fog near the Dutch town of Harmelen, after one of the drivers ignored a warning light. 93 people died (including both drivers) and 54 were injured.
It is the largest train accident in Dutch history.

1962 – Cold War. While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartent.

1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.

1962 – Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.

1962 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.

1962 – The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.

1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

1962 – French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.

1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.

1962 – "Rudolf Abel", a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.

1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.

1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.

On Feb. 26, 1962, after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, astronaut John Glenn told a joint meeting of Congress, "Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge have always paid dividends in the long run."

On March 14, 1962, Democrat Edward M. Kennedy officially launched in Boston his successful candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts once held by his brother, President John F. Kennedy. (Edward Kennedy would serve in the Senate for nearly 47 years.)

April 10, 1962:

The Los Angeles Dodgers opened up their new ballpark, Dodger Stadium, but they lost the opening game there to the Cincinnati Reds, 6-3.

May 9, 1962: scientists at MIT reflected a laser beam off the surface of the moon. Italian movie director Federico Fellini began filming “8-1/2,” his art house classic about a movie director struggling to make a movie.

Also, Depeche Mode frontman David Gahan was born.

1962 – Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.

1962 – Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.

Also, actor Emilio Estevez was born. Hard to believe he turns 50 today!

1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.

June 22nd 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.

July 1st 1962 – Independence of Rwanda.

July 1st 1962 – Independence of Burundi.

July 10th 1962 – Telstar, the world's first active, direct relay communications satellite, was launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral.

50 years ago tomorrow

July 12, 1962: The Rolling Stones made their debut at London's Marquee Club, Number 165 Oxford Street, opening for the first time under that name, for Long John Baldry. Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Ian Stewart, Dick Taylor and Tony Chapman had played together for the group Blues Incorporated before creating a new name inspired by the Muddy Waters 1950 single "Rollin' Stone".

August 5, 1962: the passing of Marilyn Monroe. :\'(

October 5th 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, was released.

October 5th 1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.

October 5th 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, was released.

October 5th 1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.
A significant day for media releases!

October 5th 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, was released.


October 5th 1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.



A significant day for media releases!


Any special ceremony in "jolly old England" for either event?

Any special ceremony in "jolly old England" for either event?
The television are covering it all!

October 22nd 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.

October 25th 1962 – Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.

October 25th 1962 – Uganda joins the United Nations.

October 25th 1962 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.

October 25th 1962 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.


and was released in 1990.

1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.

November 1st 1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" , in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.