May 13th 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.

May 19th 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.

May 19th 1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.

May 29th 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

June 3rd 1950 – The first successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; the summit of Annapurna is reached by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.

June 8th 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.

June 11th 1950 - Ben Hogan returned to tournament play after a near fatal car accident. He won the U.S. Open.

June 20th 1960 – The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but lasted only two months before dividing into Senegal and Mali.

June 20th 1960 - Floyd Patterson knocked out Ingemar Johansson to become the first heavyweight fighter to regain his own crown.

June 25th 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.

July 2nd 1950 – The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.

July 4th 1950 – Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.

July 11th 1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.

July 16th 1950 – Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.

July 16th 1950 - The largest crowd in sporting history was 199,854. They watched the Uraguay defeat Brazil in the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

July 24th 1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.

July 29th 1950 – Korean War: U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment troops concluded four days of shootings of civilians, sparked by fears that columns of refugees might contain North Korean spies.

August 1st 1950 - First Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons).

August 1st 1950 - American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule.

August 2nd 1960 - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Shakin' All Over'. Their only UK No.1. Kidd died in car crash in 1966. Many acts have covered the song, including: The Who, Led Zeppelin, Iggy Pop and The Guess Who.

August 17th 1950 – Hill 303 massacre: American POWs are shot to death by the North Korean Army.

August 18th 1950 – Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.

August 23rd 1950 - Federal Republic of Germany and Japan re-admitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation.

September 3rd 1950 – "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.

September 4th 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.

September 10th 1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes first to hit three home runs in a game at Griffith Stadium.

September 11th 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: Indian infantry captured the town of Burki near Lahore, Pakistan.

September 23rd 1950 – Korean War, The Battle of Hill 282: the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurs.

September 23rd 1950 - Philadelphia Athletics' Joe Astroth is fourth to get six RBIs in an inning (6th).

December 31, 1950: The inaugural 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race is held.

January 1, 1951: First week as No. 1 single on Billboard and Cashbox charts of Patti Page hit song "Tennessee Waltz".

January 15th 1951 – Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.

January 18th 1951 - The NFL passed a rule that said that a tackle, guard or center was not eligible to catch a forward pass.

January 22nd 1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.

January 27th 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.

February 3rd 1951 - Dick Button won the U.S. figure skating title for the sixth time.

February 7th 1951 – Korean War: Seven hundred five suspected communist sympathizers are butchered by South Korean forces.

February 13th 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.

February 25th 1951 - The first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

March 7th 1951 - Ezzard Charles won a 15-round decision over Jersey Joe Walcott. It was Charles' eighth heavyweight title defense.

March 7th 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

March 20th 1951 – Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.

March 29th 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

March 29th 1951 - "The King and I" opened on Broadway.

March 30th 1951 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 91 is adopted.

March 31st 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.

April 11th 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

April 11th 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.

April 15th 1951 - The first episode of "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" aired.

April 17th 1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

April 19th 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.

April 20th 1951 – Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.

April 22nd 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.

April 23rd 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.

April 25th 1951 - The Soviet Union officially applied to compete in the Olympics.

April 25th 1951 – Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.

May 7th 1951 - Russia was admitted to participate in the 1952 Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee.

May 13th 1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.

May 13th 1951 - AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.

May 13th 1951 – The Polish cultural attaché in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.

May 16th 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.

May 18th 1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.

May 18th 1951 - Willie Mays hit his first home run. It was also his first major league hit.

May 28th 1951 – The British radio comedy program The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.

June 23rd 1951 - Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.

June 25th 1951 - The first commercial color TV program was a show presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV's at the time.

June 28th 1951 - "Amos 'n' Andy" moved to CBS-TV from radio.

June 29th 1951 - The United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.

June 30th 1951 - On orders from Washington, General Matthew Ridgeway broadcasts that the United Nations was willing to discuss an armistice with North Korea.

August 11th 1951 - The first major league baseball game to be televised in color was broadcast. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves 8-1.

August 22nd 1951 - 75,052 people watched the Harlem Globetrotters perform. It was the largest crowd to see a basketball game.

September 1st 1951 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 95 relating to Arab-Israeli conflict is adopted.

September 1st 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

September 3rd 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, “Search for Tomorrow”, airs its first episode on the CBS network.

September 10th 1951 - Britain began an economic boycott of Iran.

September 11th 1951 - Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.

September 23rd 1951 - The first transcontinental telecast was received on the west coast. The show "Crusade for Freedom" was broadcast by CBS-TV from New York.

September 28th 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

September 29th 1951 - The first network football game was televised by CBS-TV in color. The game was between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania.

October 3rd 1951: Bobby Thomson hit his National League pennant-winning home run for the New York Giants, known as "the shot heard 'round the world"; this came off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City.

October 7th 1951 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips dies (b. 1874)

October 15th 1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.

October 7th 1951 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips dies (b. 1874)

And American rock singer John Mellencamp was born!

October 15th 1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.

Happy (belated) 65th anniversary to one of the greatest television sitcoms ever. O0

October 31st 1951: The film Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in England.

November 7th 1951, Frank Sinatra married his second wife actress Ava Gardner, the couple split up in 1953 and divorced in 1957. Sinatra was married three other times, to his first wife Nancy Barbato, to the actress Mia Farrow and finally to Barbara Marx, to whom he was married at his death.

November 8th 1951 - Yogi Berra (New York Yankees) won his first MVP award. He went on to win 2 more in his career.

November 10th 1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

November 10th 1951 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 96 concerning Jammu and Kashmir is adopted.

November 14th 1951 - The first telecast of a world lightweight title fight was seen coast to coast. Jimmy Carter beat Art Aragon in Los Angeles.

November 15th 1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.

November 18th 1951 - Chuck Connors (Los Angeles Angels) became the first player to oppose the major league draft. Connors later became the star of the television show "The Rifleman."

November 18th 1951 - Chuck Connors (Los Angeles Angels) became the first player to oppose the major league draft. Connors later became the star of the television show "The Rifleman."

Three days later, my mom was born! http://www.inthe00s.com/Smileys/webby/smiley.gif

One day late: November 24th 1951 - The Broadway play Gigi opens, starring Audrey Hepburn as the lead character.

December 9th 1951 - Bob Waterfield (Los Angeles Rams) became the first professional football player to kick five field goals in one game.

December 31st 1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.

January 14th 1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.

March 15th 1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).

March 20th 1952 – The United States Senate ratified a peace treaty with Japan.

May 2nd 1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.

May 3rd 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.

May 7th 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

June 21st 1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

July 19th 1952 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.

My gorgeous avatar was born in 1952!

My gorgeous avatar was born in 1952!
Not his birthday today, it's in February?

Yeah, I know but he was still born 65 years ago, our Philip! And he still has it!

August 11th 1952 - Hank Williams was fired from the Grand Ole Opry and told not to return until he was sober.

August 11th 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.

August 12th 1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.

August 15th 1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.

September 1st 1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.

September 6th 1952 - In Montreal, Canadian television began broadcasting.

September 11th 1952, Ahmet Ertegun began recording his newest signing, 21 year old Ray Charles at Atlantic Records on West 56th St in New York City. Ertegun had purchased the singers contract from the Swingtime label for $2,500.

September 11th 1952 - New York Yankees clinch pennant #19.

October 4th 1952 - First video recording on magnetic tape, Los Angeles, California.

October 6th 1952 - First video recording on magnetic tape, Los Angeles, California.

Still two days away!

October 4th 1952 - First video recording on magnetic tape, Los Angeles, California.

Still two days away!
Typo time!

Typo time!

Not to worry, sometimes I am late posting something historical, when I realize I forgot to do it on the actual day.

October 8th 1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.

October 11th 1952 - First ever hockey telecast in Canada, as CBFT Television in Montreal carries the Montreal Canadiens versus Detroit Red Wings game, in French.

November 3rd 1952 - Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time in a supermarket in Chester, NY.

November 4th 1952: Dwight Eisenhower was elected to become the 34th President of the United States.

November 8th 1952, The first ever UK pop chart was published by the New Musical Express after staff asked 53 record shops to divulge their sales returns. ‘Here In My Heart’ by Al Martino was the first No.1. The song stayed at No.1 for nine weeks.

November 9th 1952 - Maurice "The Rocket" Richard became the NHL's leading goal scorer with his 325th career goal. He later sent the puck to Britain's Queen Elizabeth.

November 11th 1952 - The first video recorder was demonstrated by John Mullin and Wayne Johnson in Beverly Hills, CA.

November 14th 1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.

April 25th 1953 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.

April 30th 1953 - Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League.

May 4th 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

May 4th 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

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I read that book in high school and wrote a report on it, as well as a report on the author himself. It was part of a project for my American Lit class.

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I read that book in high school and wrote a report on it, as well as a report on the author himself. It was part of a project for my American Lit class.
Never read it myself, but I have seen the film.

May 6th 1953 - Cleveland Browns' pitcher Bobo Holloman makes his first major league start, no-hits Philadelphia Athletics, 6-0.

May 13th 1953 - New York Giants' Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each hit two homeruns and a triple.

June 2nd 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

September 16th 1953 - "The Robe" premiered at the Roxy Theater in New York. It was the first movie filmed in the wide screen CinemaScope process.

October 31st 1953 - "Carmen," by Bizet, became the first "major" opera to be televised in "color."

November 21st 1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

November 21st 1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

And my mom was turning two years old!

March 13th 1954 – First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.

March 15th 1954 - CBS television debuted its "Morning Show."

May 7th 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).

May 11th 1954: U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, declares that Indochina is important but not essential to the security of Southeast Asia, thus ending any prospect of American intervention on the side of France.

May 13th 1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.

May 17th 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

June 9th 1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

June 12th 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017 Jacinta and Francisco Marto, aged 10 and 9 at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.

June 14th 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

July 3rd 1954 - Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.

August 7th 1954, Johnny Cash married Vivian Liberto at St Ann's Catholic Church in Memphis. Cash had plans of becoming a Memphis appliance salesman, he instead formed a band with Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant, and was signed to Sun Records a year later.

August 13th 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

August 24th 1954 - International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China.

August 29th 1954 - San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens

September 11th 1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.

September 11th 1954 - The Miss America beauty pageant made its network TV debut on ABC. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was the winner.

September 12th 1954 - "Lassie" made its television debut on CBS. The last show aired on September 12th, 1971.

September 11th 1954 - The Miss America beauty pageant made its network TV debut on ABC. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was the winner.


That's pretty cool I had no clue Catwoman won Miss America.

That's pretty cool I had no clue Catwoman won Miss America.

Who would have thought that a Miss America winner would go on to become a film star?

Who would have thought that a Miss America winner would go on to become a film star?


The only other one I can think of who gained some popularity is Vanessa Williams and she became a fairly known singer too.

The only other one I can think of who gained some popularity is Vanessa Williams and she became a fairly known singer too.


That's true. She's both an actress and a singer. O0

September 13th 1954 - Judy Garland was on the cover of "Life" magazine.

September 14th 1954 - Hurricane Edna (second of 1954) hits New York City, causing US$50 million damage.

September 17th 1954 - Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano knocks out Ezzard Charles in eight rounds.

September 17th 1954 – The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.

September 25th 1954 - Elvis Presley appeared live on "Grand Ole Opry" and performed "Blue Moon of Kentucky."

September 29th 1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

October 4th 1954 - "December Bride" debuted on CBS-TV.

October 5th 1954 - Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US.

October 6th 1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army.

October 7th 1954 - Marian Anderson became the first black singer to be hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera Company.

October 15th 1954 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far south as North Carolina.

October 16th 1954 - Elvis Presley made his first radio appearance on the "Louisiana Hayride".

October 27th 1954 - The ABC TV network airs the first Disneyland TV show, on Wednesday night, 7:30 to 8:30. The first episode is titled The Disneyland Story. Approximately 30.8 million American viewers watch the show.

October 27th 1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced. They had been married on January 14, 1954.

October 27th 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

November 2nd 1954 - JS Thurmond becomes first US senator elected by write-in vote (South Carolina).

November 10th 1954 - Lieutenant Colonel John Strapp travels 632mph in a rocket sled.

November 10th 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.

November 27th 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

November 27th 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

December 4th 1954: The first Burger King (fast food restaurant chain) is opened in Miami, Florida.

February 12th 1955 - US President Dwight Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam.

February 13th 1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

February 18th 1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.

February 26th 1955, Billboard reported that for the first time since their introduction in 1949, 45rpm singles were outselling the old standard 78's.

March 10th 1955 - The last broadcast of "The Silver Eagle" was heard on radio.

March 14th 1955 - Elvis Presley was interviewed on Jimmy Dean's "Town & Country Jubliee" television show. Elvis did not perform.

March 15th 1955, Elvis Presley signed a management contract with Colonel Tom Parker. Parker had previously managed the 'Great Parker Pony Circus' with one of the acts being a troupe of dancing chickens.

March 16th 1955 - US President Dwight Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war.

March 17th 1955 - NHL hockey player Maurice "Rocket" Richard is suspended, sparks 7-hour riot in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

March 27th 1955 - Steve McQueen made his network TV debut on "Goodyear Playhouse."

March 29th 1955 - 27th Academy Awards: On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly win.

April 1st 1955 - "One Man's Family" was seen on TV for the final time after a six-year run on NBC-TV.

April 2nd 1955 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright.

April 2nd 1955, Elvis Presley (with Scotty Moore and Bill Black), Slim Whitman, Hoot and Curley, Johnny Horton, Tibby Edwards and Floyd Cramer all appeared at the Louisiana Hayride broadcast from Shreveport Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, and shown on KWKH Television.

April 3rd 1955 - Fred Astaire appeared on television for the first time on "The Toast of the Town," with host, Ed Sullivan.

April 3rd 1955 - Baltimore Orioles pull their first triple play (3-6-2 versus Kansas City Athletics).

April 3rd 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

April 5th 1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister.

April 6th 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

April 9th 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

April 12th 1955 - The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, effective and potent."

April 13th 1955 - 20.33 inches (51.64 cm) of rainfall in Axis, Alabama (state record).

April 20th 1955 - The Riviera Casino opens on on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester in Nevada.

April 21st 1955 - Brooklyn Dodgers win record 10th straight game since beginning of a season.

April 24th 1955, Perez Prado was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White". Known as the 'King of the Mambo' the instrumental was the theme from the film 'Underwater' where Jane Russell can be seen dancing to 'Cherry Pink'.

May 5th 1955 – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.

May 5th 1955 – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.

The date was written in shorthand as 5/5/55!

The date was written in shorthand as 5/5/55!
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May 12th 1955 - Gisele MacKenzie played a singer on the NBC-TV program, "Justice."

May 22nd 1955 - Jack Benny did his last live network radio broadcast after a run of 23 years. He devoted his time fully to TV.

May 25th 1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.

June 2nd 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.

June 4th 1955 - The "Mickey Rooney Show" was aired on NBC for the last time.

June 11th 1955 - Eddie Arcaro ties record of six Belmont Stakes wins.

June 22nd 1955 - Buena Vista generally releases the Disney animated film "Lady and the Tramp" to theaters in the US.

June 29th 1955 - BBC-TV transmitted "Life with the Lyons" for the first time.

June 29th 1955 - The Soviet Union sent tanks to Poznan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.

July 2nd 1955 - ABC Television premiered "The Lawrence Welk Show."

July 9th 1955 – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.

August 15th 1955, Elvis Presley attended a meeting in Memphis with his manager Bob Neal, Colonel Tom Parker and Vernon Presley, at which a new contract was signed that named Colonel Parker as "special advisor" with control of virtually every aspect of Elvis' career. Parker was not really a Colonel at all, but a Dutch immigrant named Andreas Cornelius van Kujik, whose honorary title was given to him in 1948 by Governor Jimmie Davis of Louisiana. He was a flamboyant promoter whose pre-Elvis experience included shows called The Great Parker Pony Circus and Tom Parker And His Dancing Turkeys and was a veteran of carnivals, medicine shows and various other entertainment enterprises.

August 20th 1955 – Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.

October 5th 1955 - The play "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.

November 19th 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.

November 23rd 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

December 1st 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

December 1st 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

I was just thinking of this. :( :(

December 10, 1955: In the Australian federal election, the incumbent Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Robert Menzies with coalition partner the Country Party, led by Arthur Fadden, defeats the Labor Party, led by H. V. Evatt. Future PM Malcolm Fraser enters Parliament for the first time as Liberal member for Wannon.

December 21, 1955: Ibrahim Hashem becomes acting Prime Minister of Jordan, thus beginning his third term in the post.

December 31st 1955 - General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

December 31st 1955 - General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.


It's almost impossible to imagine how huge General Motors used to be in the mid 20th Century back when people bought American cars and before the big tech companies took over. In 1960 Detroit was the richest city in the U.S.  Needless to say it has somewhat declined since then.

It's almost impossible to imagine how huge General Motors used to be in the mid 20th Century back when people bought American cars and before the big tech companies took over. In 1960 Detroit was the richest city in the U.S.  Needless to say it has somewhat declined since then.

That's another thing, I wonder how much that $1B would be equivalent to nowdays.

January 4th 1956 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.

January 10, 1956: Norwegian coaster Sirabuen collides with Brazilian ship SS Loide Venezuela and sinks near Kijkduin, Netherlands; only one of her eight crew survives.

January 27th 1956, Elvis Presley's single, 'Heartbreak Hotel' was released by RCA Records, who had just purchased Presley's contract from Sun Records for $35,000. The song sold 300,000 copies in its first week and would eventually sell over a million, becoming Elvis' first Gold record

January 27th 1956, Elvis Presley's single, 'Heartbreak Hotel' was released by RCA Records, who had just purchased Presley's contract from Sun Records for $35,000. The song sold 300,000 copies in its first week and would eventually sell over a million, becoming Elvis' first Gold record

The very next day, he made his first national television appearance.

February 25th 1956: In his speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences," Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.

March 9th 1956: Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

March 23rd 1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This date is now celebrated as Republic Day in Pakistan.

April 2nd 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.

April 3rd 1956 – Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

April 15, 1956: 1956 McDonald Chapel tornado: A tornado strikes the Greater Birmingham area of Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. Twenty-five people are killed and 400 homes damaged.

May 20th 1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

May 24th 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland. The event was the brainchild of Marcel Baisoncon of the European Broadcasting Union. Seven countries participated and they were each allowed two songs. Both Luxembourg and the winner Switzerland used the same singer for both. Switzerland won with 'Refrain' by Lys Assia.

May 31st 1956 - Buddy Holly was inspired to write "That'll Be the Day" after he saw the John Wayne movie "The Searchers."

May 31st 1956 - Mickey Mantle homerun just misses (18 inches) clearing Yankee Stadium's roof.

June 5th 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

July 7th 1956 - Johnny Cash made his first appearance on "Grand Ole Opry”.

October 15th 1956 - FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.

November 6th 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower easily won reelection, defeating Democratic challenger Adlai Stevenson, just as he had done four years earlier!

November 11, 1956: Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Last insurgents succumb to the invading Soviet army.

December 28th 1956 - Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

March 12th 1957, Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat was first published.

April 11th 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.

April 12th 1957 – The 'King of Skiffle' Lonnie Donegan was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Cumberland Gap.' The Scottish musician was a former member of Chris Barber's Jazz Band.

May 2nd 1957:  Joseph McCarthy - American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician - passed away at the age of 48.

May 3rd 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

May 3rd 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

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A historical event in the franchise's existence!

May 8th 1957 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.

May 11th 1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets auditioned for "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" and were rejected.

May 22nd 1957 – South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.

May 27th 1957 – Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.

May 27th 1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets released their first record, 'That'll Be The Day.' A UK No.1 and US No.3 hit. The song had its genesis in a trip to the movies by Holly, Allison and Sonny Curtis in June 1956. The John Wayne film The Searchers was playing. Wayne's frequently-used, world-weary catchphrase, "that'll be the day" was the Inspiration behind the song. It was also the first song to be recorded by The Quarrymen, the skiffle group that subsequently became The Beatles.

May 28th 1957 - The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) was established. The NARAS is known for organizing the Grammy Awards.

June 21st 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.

June 24th 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

June 24th 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

Hmmm, that’s kinda interesting (for lack of a better word)..

July 1st 1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.

July 29th 1957 - Tonight Starring Jack Paar premieres on NBC with Jack Paar, beginning the modern day talk show.

August 5th 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

August 26th 1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets performed "That'll Be the Day" on "American Bandstand."

August 28th 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was enacted on September 9th of that year, establishing the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

September 21st 1957 – Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.

September 22nd 1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.

September 24th 1957 – U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

October 1st 1957, The first appearance of "In God We Trust" appeared on U.S. paper currency.

From the other week...

September 26th 1957 – West Side Story, a musical based loosely on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that was written by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, and produced and directed by Jerome Robbins, made its debut on Broadway.

October 4th 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

October 12th 1957 - During an Australian tour, Little Richard publicly renounced rock 'n' roll and embraced God, telling a story of dreaming of his own damnation after praying to God when one of the engines on a plane he was on caught fire. The singer threw four diamond rings, valued at $8,000, into Sydney's Hunter River and soon after launched a Gospel career. Five years later, he would switch back to Rock.

October 18th 1957 - Paul McCartney made his debut appearance with the Quarrymen in Norris Green, Liverpool.

October 28th 1957 - After a show at the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles, local police told Elvis Presley that he was not allowed to wiggle his hips onstage, the local press also ran headlines saying Elvis would have to clean up his act. The next night, the Los Angeles Vice Squad filmed his entire concert, to study his performance.

November 9th 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

November 11th 1957 - Elvis Presley appeared at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, this was Presley’s last concert of the 50’s. Presley served in the United States Army between March 1958 and March 1960 and at the time of his draft he was one of the most well-known names in the world of entertainment.

November 14th 1957 – The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.

December 20th 1957 – The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.

January 15th 1958 - The Everly Brothers made their debut on British TV appearing on The Perry Como Show.

January 28th 1958 – The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks.

February 5th 1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.

February 6th 1958 - George Harrison joined Liverpool group The Quarrymen. The group who were named after Lennon's school featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Len Garry, Eric Griffiths and John Lowe.

February 20th 1958 - Billed as 'The Big Gold Record Stars' Bill Haley and his Comets, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmie Rodgers all appeared on the first date of a six day tour of Florida.

March 1st 1958 - Buddy Holly played the first of 25 dates on his only UK tour at the Trocadero, Elephant & Castle, London. Also on the bill was Gary Miller, The Tanner Sisters, Des O'Connor, The Montanas, Ronnie Keene & His Orchestra.

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

March 3rd 1958 - Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.

March 28th 1958 - Buddy Holly kicked off the first night of a 43 date tour at Brooklyn Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. The Alan Freed’s Big Beat Show also featured Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Billy Ford, Danny & The Juniors, The Chantels, Larry Williams, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Pastels, Jo-Ann Campbell and Ed Townsend. On most days the acts played two shows.

March 31st, 1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.

April 5th 1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada, is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. :o

April 13th 1958 – American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

April 15th 1958, the Dodgers and Giants played their first MLB game in California, with the Giants winning.

April 18th 1958, the teams played each other in Los Angeles, with the Dodgers winning. They improved their record to 2-2, but would have a losing record the rest of the season.

April 26th 1958 - With the support of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, a force of rebels in Indonesia, commanded by Ventje Sumual, captured the Indonesian Air Force base on the island of Morotai as the first stage of what Sumual called Operation Jakarta.

May 22nd 1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis arrived at London's Heathrow Airport to begin his first British tour, along with his new bride, 14 year old third cousin, Myra. Although advised not to mention it, Lewis answered all questions about his private life. The public's shock over Lewis' marriage marks the start of a controversy leading to his British tour being cancelled after just 3 of the scheduled 37 performances.