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1961 The Lady Diana Spencer was born. (I did 1997, the year of her death, so I figure the year of birth is up to me too  ) |
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| December 10, 2005, 3:34pm |
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John F Kennedy elected President of USA - Oh, and the 60's officially begin! |
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| December 10, 2005, 4:16pm |
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In 1959 Fidel Castro 'liberates' Cuba from the dictatorship of Fulgencio in Cuba which inevitably leads to the event of The Bay of Pigs. |
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| December 10, 2005, 7:40pm |
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1958 : Charles DeGaull becomes President of France. . and Michael Jackson was born . .*not a landmark year*.  |
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| December 10, 2005, 9:05pm |
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1957: The first "Sputnik" gets launched into space. |
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| December 11, 2005, 6:10am |
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1956:. . the year TV came to Oz. . the very reason we are meeting here today . . where would we be without TV? |
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| December 11, 2005, 11:54am |
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1955
Disneyland Anaheim opens! Yay! One of these days I'll get there... |
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| December 11, 2005, 1:59pm |
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1954
April 12 - Bill Haley and His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City for Decca Records.
May 10 - "Rock Around the Clock" released as the b-side to "Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town)". The song is only a moderate success until it is featured in the film Blackboard Jungle the next year.
July 5 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky.
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1953
- Stalin died...a little too late for the thousands of deaths he was allegedly responsible for
- Watson and Crick identify the molecular structure of DNA thereby paving the way for hundreds of cop shows
- Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Hillary climb that bloody great mountain only to have to turn around and climb down again
- Princess Liz is crowned Queen (she must be bored witless with it all by now)
- Korean war ends...paving the way for a TV series that ran 3 times longer than the actual war
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| December 11, 2005, 9:20pm |
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1952
November 25 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London; as of 2004, it continues, next door at the St. Martin's Theatre, and remains the longest continuously running production of a play in history.
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| December 12, 2005, 1:42pm |
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1951
COLOR TV IN USA!
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1950
Movies released in 1950 include:
All About Eve, starring Bette Davis and George Sanders
The Asphalt Jungle
The Blue Lamp, the film that introduced Jack Warner as "Dixon of Dock Green"
Born Yesterday
Bright Leaf
Cyrano de Bergerac starring Jose Ferrer
Destination Moon, screenplay partly by Robert A. Heinlein
Fancy Pants
The Happiest Days of Your Life starring Alastair Sim
Harvey starring James Stewart
Justice is Done
The Men, Marlon Brando's debut movie
John Ford's Rio Grande starring John Wayne
Seven Days to Noon
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1949
My grandfather finally is allowed home after the war, and discharged from the army.
He had signed up in 1938 when it looked like we were going to war.
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| December 15, 2005, 2:15pm |
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1948
The nation of Israel proclaimed; British end Mandate at midnight |
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| December 16, 2005, 3:41am |
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: 1947 : Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives in the world. . . & Raytheon produce the first Microwave oven |
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