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1950 MATINEE

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FAMILY LIFE

SM,ALL TOWN USA

TWA POSTERS

If only travel posters still looked this good!

American illustrator, David Klein (1918-2005), created numerous travel posters for Howard Hughes’ Trans World Airlines (TWA) in the 1950s and 1960s. His posters use eye-popping colors, iconic landmarks, and scenic images to advertise global travel.

The composition of this particular poster is fantastic, as Klein sets the St. Louis Gateway Arch against a festively patterned background, emphasizing its momentous size. The analogous colors of the type, airplane, and city hall are a warm treat too!

In 1957, the MOMA honored Klein by including his TWA poster advertising New York’s Time Square into its permanent collection.

In addition to creating colorful multi-faceted travel posters, Klein has also designed and illustrated window cards for Broadway plays and the Heights Players community theater. Images of his life’s work can be see on his website, which is managed by his estate.

Be sure to check out the general illustration section, which features some a kooky take on Alice in Wonderland!

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LONG BEACH 1950's

"Long Beach & vicinity... 1950's"

10 BEST FILMS OF THE 50s

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. Written by Reginald Rose, based on his story
3. Directed by Sidney Lumet
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7. It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know.
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9. Country: USA
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11. IMDb: 8.8/10
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13. Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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15. What the Critics Are Saying:
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17. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times - Great Movie
18. "This is a film where tension comes from personality conflict, dialogue and body language, not action; where the defendant has been glimpsed only in a single brief shot; where logic, emotion and prejudice struggle to control the field. It is a masterpiece of stylized realism--the style coming in the way the photography and editing comment on the bare bones of the content."
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20. Jeff Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly - A-
21. "Like To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men, a tense jury-room thriller, endures as a pillar of liberal ideals robust enough to answer even Ayn Rand's most conservative opuses."
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23. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
24. "A superb cast under inspired direction makes this film brilliant in every aspect."

2. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
3. Written by Adolph Green and Betty Comden
4. Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
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8. What do they think I am? Dumb or something? Why, I make more money than...than...than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!
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10. Country: USA
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12. IMDb: 8.4/10
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14. Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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16. What the Critics Are Saying:
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18. Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly - A+
19. "The transfer has sensational color, and the package even includes a charming Debbie Reynolds number cut before the film's release."
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21. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times - 4/4
22. "The film was photographed in bold basic colors--the yellow raincoats are an emblem--and Donen and his cast have an energy level that's also bold, basic and playful. But is this really the greatest Hollywood musical ever made? In a word, yes."
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24. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
25. "In the history of movie musicals, no single scene is more fondly remembered than Gene Kelly's song-and-dance routine to the title song."

3. Smultronstället (1957)
4. Written by Ingmar Bergman
5. Directed by Ingmar Bergman
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9. When you were little you believed in Santa Claus, now you believe in God.
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11. Country: Sweden
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13. USA Title: Wild Strawberries
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15. IMDb: 8.3/10
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17. Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
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19. What the Critics Are Saying:
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21. Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly - A
22. "The opening nightmare sequence sprang straight from Bergman's own dreams, and as the film glances into the doctor's bucolic childhood, touches on the unhappiness of marriage, and marvels at the brutal honesties of youth, one realizes that the filmmaker is re-creating his father -- and thawing him out in the bargain."
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24. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 4/5
25. "Superbly photographed and acted, the film tells the story of an elderly professor facing old age and reviewing his life's disappointments."

4. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
5. Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman Jr.
6. Directed by Billy Wilder
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10. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
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12. Country: USA
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14. IMDb: 8.7/10
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16. Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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18. What the Critics Are Saying:
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20. Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly - A
21. "Pull Sunset Boulevard off the shelf and you'll see how Condon makes inspired use of Billy Wilder's indelible image of a corpse found floating in a swimming pool. He also salutes the immortal sequence of Norma Desmond (played by actual silent star Gloria Swanson) studying her own past glory on a rickety projector."
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23. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times - Great Movie
24. "The movie cuts close to the bone, drawing so directly from life that many of the silent stars at the movie's premiere recognized personal details."
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26. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
27. "Sunset Boulevard is one of Hollywood's strongest indictments against its own excesses. It justly deserves its place among the best films ever made."

5. All About Eve (1950)
6. Written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
7. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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11. If nothing else, there's applause...like waves of love pouring over the footlights.
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13. Country: USA
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15. IMDb: 8.4/10
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17. Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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19. What the Critics Are Saying:
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21. Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times - Great Movie
22. "Growing older was a smart career move for Bette Davis, whose personality was adult, hard-edged and knowing. Never entirely comfortable as an ingenue, she was glorious as a professional woman, a survivor, or a bitchy predator. Her veteran actress Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) was her greatest role; it seems to show her defeated by the wiles of a younger actress, but in fact marks a victory: the triumph of personality and will over the superficial power of beauty. She never played a more autobiographical role."
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24. Entertainment Weekly - A
25. "Writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz packs the film's 2 hours and 18 minutes with so much emotional intrigue and provides his fully fleshed-out characters with such sharp dialogue that the whole thing races by as breathlessly as Speed."
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27. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
28. "The dialogue sparkles, and the performances are of high caliber."

6. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
7. Written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni
8. Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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12. This is the nature of war. By protecting others, you save yourselves.
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14. Country: Japan
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16. USA Title: The Seven Samurai
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18. IMDb: 8.8/10
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20. Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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22. What the Critics Are Saying:
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24. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times - Great Movie
25. "Since Kurosawa's samurai adventure Yojimbo (1960) was remade as A Fistful of Dollars and essentially created the spaghetti Western, and since this movie and Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress inspired George Lucas' Star Wars series, it could be argued that this greatest of filmmakers gave employment to action heroes for the next 50 years, just as a fallout from his primary purpose."
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27. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
28. "This Japanese release--about seven swordsmen coming to the aid of a besieged peasant village--is one of those rare screen wonders that seems to end much too soon."
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30. Tim Purtell, Entertainment Weekly - A
31. "Samurai is loaded with thrilling filmmaking—from its character-driven setup to the glorious chaos of the rain-soaked climax, a dizzying blur of men, horses, mud, and death."

7. North by Northwest (1959)
8. Written by Ernest Lehman
9. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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13. That's funny. That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.
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15. Country: USA
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17. IMDb: 8.6/10
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19. Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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21. What the Critics Are Saying:
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23. Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly - A
24. "For weeks, Alfred Hitchcock and screenwriter Ernest Lehman worked together trying to create a screenplay for The Wreck of the Mary Deare; when they couldn't crack it but still owed MGM a film, they came up with this instead -- one of Hitchcock's, and Hollywood's, greatest light-suspense entertainments ever, and an essential addition to the growing catalog of Hitchcock on DVD."
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26. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
27. "Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint star in this classic thriller by the master himself, Alfred Hitchcock, who plays (or preys) on the senses and keeps the action at a feverish pitch."

8. Kumonosu jô (1957)
9. Written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, and Hideo Oguni, based on the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare
10. Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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14. Admirable, my Lord. You, who would soon rule the world, allow a ghost to frighten you.
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18. USA Title: Throne of Blood
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20. IMDb: 8.1/10
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22. Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
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26. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
27. "Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's retelling of Macbeth may be the best film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made."
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29. Joshua Rich, Entertainment Weekly
30. "Deriving as much from the traditional Noh theater style as from Shakespeare, Blood employs Kurosawa's usual slate of trickery -- wipes, cunning production design, inventively choreographed battle sequences."

9. On the Waterfront (1954)
10. Written by Budd Schulberg, based on his story, and suggested by articles by Malcolm Johnson
11. Directed by Elia Kazan
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15. Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
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19. IMDb: 8.4/10
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21. Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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25. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times - Great Movie
26. "Today the story no longer seems as fresh; both the fight against corruption and the romance fall well within ancient movie conventions. But the acting and the best dialogue passages have an impact that has not dimmed; it is still possible to feel the power of the film and of Brando and Kazan, who changed American movie acting forever."
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28. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
29. "Tough, uncompromising look at corruption on the New York waterfront."
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31. Troy Patterson, Entertainment Weekly - A
32. "On the Waterfront is the fruit of Kazan's desire to justify himself (that is, his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee) to Hollywood and the world -- an arguable proposition with an inarguably affecting payoff."

10. Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
11. Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jérôme Géronimi, based on the novel by Georges Arnaud
12. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
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16. You don't know what fear is. But you'll see. It's catching, it's catching like small pox! And once you get it, it's for life! So long, boys, and good luck.
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18. Country: France/Italy
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20. USA Title: The Wages of Fear
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22. IMDb: 8.4/10
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24. Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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26. What the Critics Are Saying:
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28. Marc Bernardin, Entertainment Weekly - A-
29. "Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear, a gem of a thriller, which won Cannes' Grand Prix way back when, lags a bit in the early going (thanks to 21 minutes of character embroidery, which was cut from its first U.S. release), but once those guys hit the road, it's a masterpiece of tension, precision, and a very specific form of masculine desperation."
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31. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times - 4/4
32. "The film's extended suspense sequences deserve a place among the great stretches of cinema."
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34. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide - 5/5
35. "This masterpiece of suspense pits four seedy and destitute men against the challenge of driving two nitroglycerin-laden trucks over crude and treacherous Central American mountain roads to quell a monstrous oil-well fire."

Enduring Love Songs of the 1950s

The 1950s was a decade of many firsts; seat belts were introduced in 1952, Disneyland opened in 1955 and NASA was founded in 1959. In the world of music, the 1950s is known as the birth of rock and roll with hits like "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets dominating the airwaves. Aside from rock and roll, country music and folk music were also popular during this period. Love songs recorded by vocal groups climbed the music charts during the 1950s. Hits like "Earth Angel" by The Penguins, "In the Still of the Night" by the Five Satins and "The Great Pretender" by The Platters, were published in the 50s.

1. Bye Bye Love

A song made popular by The Everly Brothers; it was written by husband and wofe songwriters Boudleaux and Felice Bryant. The said song was published in 1957 and became a huge hit. A version of "Bye Bye Love" was also recorded by Ray Charles.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

Bye bye, love.
Bye bye, happiness.
Hello, loneliness.
I think I'm a-gonna cry.

Related Video

Watch this vintage clip of The Everly Brothers singing "Bye Bye Love" courtesy of YouTube.

2. Cry

A song written by Churchill Kohlman and recorded by Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads in 1951. Other artists who recorded this song includes Lynn Anderson, Ray Charles and Crystal Gayle.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

Remember sunshine can be found
Behind a cloudy sky,
So let your hair down and go on and cry

Related Video

Listen to one of Johnnie Ray's hit songs from YouTube.

3. Earth Angel

If you're a fellow Back to the Future fan, you might remember this song from a pivotal part of the movie; the high-school dance scene. This love song is credited to Curtis Williams, Jesse Belvin and Gaynel Hodge; it was recorded by The Penguins in 1954 under the Dootone label.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

Earth angel, earth angel
Will you be mine?
My darling dear
Love you all the time
I'm just a fool
A fool in love with you

Related Video

Listen to this song from YouTube.

4. Lonely Teardrops

This song was written Berry Gordy, Gwen Gordy, Tyran Carlo. It was recorded by Jackie Wilson and released in 1958 under the Brunswick label.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

My heart is cryin', cryin'
Lonely teardrops
My pillows never dry of
Lonely teardrops

Related Video

Watch Jackie Wilson perform his hit song courtesy of YouTube.

5. In the Still of the Night

Also known by the title "In the Still of the Nite;" this song was written by Five Satins lead vocalist, Fred Parris, and published by the Five Satins in 1956 under the Standord label. Paul Anka recorded a version of this song in 1969.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

In the still of the night
I held you
Held you tight
'Cause I love
Love you so
Promise I'll never
Let you go
In the still of the night

Related Video

Watch the Five Satins' heartfelt performance of this song via YouTube.

6. Mona Lisa

This classic song, which mentions Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, was written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston. The song was recorded by Nat King Cole and featured in the 1950 film Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

Mona lisa, Mona lisa, men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you?
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?

Related Video

Listen to Nat King Cole's beautiful rendition of this song courtesy of YouTube.

7. The Great Pretender

A song written by music producer, songwriter and arranger Samuel "Buck" Ram; it was released in 1955 and became one of The Platters' greatest hits.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

Oh yes, I'm the great pretender
Pretending I'm doing well
My need is such
I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell

Related Video

Watch this rare clip of The Platters singing "The Great Pretender" from YouTube.

8. Too Young

Published in 1951, the kyrics of this song was written by Sylvia Dee and the music composed by Sidney Lippman. This song was recorded by Nat King Cole and became a huge hit.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

They try to tell us we're too young
Too young to really be in love
They say that loves a word
A word we've only heard
But can't begin to know the meaning of

Related Video

Listen to Nat King Cole's recording of this timeless tune from YouTube.

9. Your Cheatin' Heart

This "after the break-up" song was written by singer-songwriter Hank Williams Sr. in 1952. Williams' recording of this song was released in 1953; after his death. "Your Cheatin' Heart" was also covered by other performers including his son, Hank Williams' Jr., Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles and Patsy Cline.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

Your cheatin' heart,
Will make you weep,
You'll cry and cry,
And try to sleep,
But sleep won't come,
The whole night through,
Your cheatin heart, will tell on you

Related Video

Watch this performance of Hank Williams Jr. from YouTube.

10. Why Do Fools Fall in Love

Released in 1956 under the Gee label; this song is credited to Frankie Lymon and Morris Levy. It became a big hit in 1956 for then 13 year old Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers.

Lyrics (Excerpt)

Why do fools fall in love?
Why do birds sing so gay?
And lovers await the break of day
Why do they fall in love?

Related Video

Watch this classic clip of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers' first nationwide performance via YouTube.

WHAT WAS NOT TO LIKE

Hose with seams!

Nylons!

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And the girdle one needed to wear the hose!

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I love to remember the good things about the fifties!

But, not every "bless-ed" thing!

Hairstyles from the 1950's:

What was your cut?

Sure, the ponytail is back in style, but at least hairspray has improved!

Hair Design -- Waving, Shaping and Curl Patterns for 1950s Hairstyles

by: Louis Newberry

The Red Menace!

I remember the practice drills and hiding under my desk at school.

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Survival in the 1950s:

Foil the Red Menace!

Companion Plan for survival! Oh, my. Did we really believe this? Yes!
I guess every one needs a plan and HOPE!

Woman's Home Companion, May 1951.

Woman's Home Companion, May 1951.

Woman's Home Companion, May 1951.

Woman's Home Companion, May 1951.

Woman's Home Companion, May 1951.

Woman's Home Companion, May 1951.

Woman's Home Companion, May 1951.

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1950's Fashion Rules for Women:

No trousers in public and white gloves!

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What we didn't know about industry and pollution in the 50's:

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Injustices in that decade:

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Really Silly Movies with bad acting:

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Food Additives and a 1950's balanced diet!

Oh what we did not know about eating! Did we even know what a nitrite was?

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What was expected of a woman in the Fifties:

Some of it was very unrealisitic

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Black and white '50's TV (NOT the shows, just the box!)

SHOPPING IN THE 50's

Let’s shop in the 50s’!

Since vintage photography, posters and illustrations have became so popular lately, I decided to take a bit further, and I’m setting a trend of buying in the 40s’ and 50s’. If you give it a thought, it’s actually a pretty good idea, you’ll enjoy in beautiful scenery and you can even spare a few bucks, since prices were far lower then. And besides that, nostalgia is having a big come back! It probably has something to do with the strongly rooted belief that American people was happiest during these golden years. Have a look at these images and I hope they will give a rise to some sweet memories. Enjoy!

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1956 IN HISTORY

1956 in History

January 1	Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville
January 1	KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
January 1	KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
January 1	Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt and U.K.
January 1	WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting
January 2	Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
January 5	Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
January 6	Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
January 6	KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
January 7	Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs. New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy
January 8	Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
January 8	Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
January 9	Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
January 9	Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
January 10	Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
January 14	Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
January 14	Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
January 15	Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
January 15	D Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
January 15	KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting
January 15	NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30
January 16	Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine
January 18	East Germany forms own army (National People's Army)
January 19	Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field
January 20	Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville
January 21	"Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City after 849 performances
January 21	William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker
January 22	30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
January 22	Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
January 22	Canadian Football Council forms
January 24	96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
January 25	96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record)
January 26	7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
January 26	Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session
January 26	Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame
January 26	Porkkala military base returned to Finland by U.S.S.R.
January 27	NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium
January 28	Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
January 29	Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich
January 30	Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
January 30	KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
January 30	KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
January 30	Martin Luther King, Jr's home bombed
January 31	French government of Mollet forms
January 31	Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil
February 1	Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
February 1	WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting
February 2	Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
February 3	Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
February 3	Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
February 4	AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
February 5	7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
February 5	Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
February 5	New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
February 6	Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
February 6	French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
February 6	University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
February 7	Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled
February 8	Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
February 9	-5 degrees F (15 degrees C) in Sicily
February 9	KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
February 9	R. Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
February 10	Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA
February 10	"My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
February 12	Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open
February 13	KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
February 14	20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
February 14	Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
February 14	Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
February 15	Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
February 15	Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
February 16	Britain abolishes death penalty
February 17	Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB
February 17	Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz and Oppelt of AUT
February 17	Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA
February 17	Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA
February 19	Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open
February 20	WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
February 22	1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
February 22	Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
February 23	20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
February 23	Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
February 25	Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
February 26	Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
February 26	Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
February 27	Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
February 27	Female suffrage in Egypt
February 28	13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Massachusetts
February 28	Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
February 29	Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan
February 29	President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
March 2	Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
March 3	Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)
March 3	Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
March 3	Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY
March 3	Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
March 5	"King Kong," 1st televised
March 5	Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
March 9	Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles
March 9	Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
March 10	General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
March 10	Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
March 11	Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
March 12	Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
March 13	New Zealand bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
March 15	"My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 2,715 performances
March 15	Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ
March 16	U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
March 16	U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
March 17	8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball
March 19	Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minnesota Lakers-133, St. Louis Hawks-75
March 20	156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
March 20	E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP
March 20	Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (U.S.S.R.) explodes
March 20	Tunisia gains independence from France
March 20	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
March 20	Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
March 21	28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win
March 22	Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger
March 22	"Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 383 performances
March 22	Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis, Jr. premieres in New York City
March 23	18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71
March 23	Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
March 23	Sudan becomes independent
March 26	Medic Alert Foundation forms
March 26	Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
March 27	French commandos land in Algeria
March 27	U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
March 30	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
April 1	10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win
April 1	KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
April 1	Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
April 2	Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff and Juliet," premieres in Manchester
April 2	Soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieres on TV
April 3	Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
April 3	German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
April 3	"Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 461 performances
April 4	Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden," premieres in London
April 6	Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
April 7	10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1
April 7	Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
April 8	20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke, Jr. wins, shooting a 289
April 8	6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC
April 8	M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
April 10	Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
April 10	Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
April 11	French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
April 11	Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
April 12	Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon
April 13	KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
April 14	Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
April 14	"Plain and Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 476 performances
April 15	Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open
April 16	1st solar powered radios go on sale
April 17	Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns
April 17	Kominform disbands
April 17	Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain
April 17	U.S.S.R.'s Cominform (Parliament) dissolves
April 17	Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament
April 18	Egypt and Israel agree to a cease fire
April 18	Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
April 19	1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium
April 19	60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14
April 19	U.S. actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III
April 21	Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1
April 22	Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
April 23	U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses
April 24	AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
April 25	Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
April 25	Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble," premieres in London
April 27	Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
April 27	Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
April 28	Last French troop leave Vietnam
April 28	Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 home runs
April 29	Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
April 29	WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
April 29	WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting
April 29	WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting
May 2	U.S. Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
May 2	U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation
May 3	A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
May 3	Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in New York City
May 3	"Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 678 performances
May 4	Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
May 4	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
May 5	82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4
May 5	Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude
May 5	Jim Bailey (U.S.) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in Los Angeles California
May 5	World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
May 6	Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header
May 6	WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting
May 7	Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
May 7	New York Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat
May 7	Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
May 8	John Osbornes "Look Back in Anger," premieres in London
May 10	French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
May 10	KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, California (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
May 11	Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV
May 12	Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats New York Giants, 3-0
May 12	East Pakistan struck by cyclone and tidal waves
May 13	Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
May 16	Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
May 16	Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia
May 16	Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
May 16	Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey vs. Australians at the Oval
May 18	Hungarian party leader Matyas Rakosi enforces his own policy
May 18	Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time
May 18	Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam
May 19	82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4
May 19	Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games
May 20	Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
May 20	Jordan government of Samir resigns
May 21	Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
May 21	U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
May 21	WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
May 22	"Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV
May 22	KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting
May 23	World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco
May 25	Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
May 26	Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
May 26	Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman and Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th and lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1
May 27	French raid in Algiers
May 27	U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
May 28	Dale Long becomes 1st to hit home runs in 8 straight games
May 28	Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
May 29	Arnold Schonberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres
May 29	WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, Florida (NBC) 1st broadcast
May 30	Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee, Florida
May 30	Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium
May 30	U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
May 31	Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
June 2	Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
June 3	3rd class travel on British Railways ends
June 3	KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, Arizona (ABC) begins broadcasting
June 3	Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open
June 4	Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
June 5	Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const
June 5	"Milton Berle Show," last airs on NBC-TV
June 7	Singapore government of Marshall resigns
June 8	Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
June 8	WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
June 9	Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
June 10	16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
June 10	Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
June 13	After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
June 13	Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
June 13	Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup
June 13	"Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 21 performances
June 14	"New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 221 performances
June 15	John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
June 16	56th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY
June 16	88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8
June 17	Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister
June 18	Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
June 19	Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
June 20	At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)
June 20	Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
June 21	Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
June 21	East Germany frees almost 19,000 prisoners
June 21	Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
June 23	Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
June 23	"Jimmy Durante Show," last airs on NBC-TV
June 23	"Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8
June 24	2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
June 24	"Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV
June 24	WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting
June 25	51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
June 25	WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting
June 27	Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
June 28	1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois
June 28	Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die
June 29	Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, California
June 29	Federal interstate highway system act signed
June 29	Prime Minister Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)
June 30	Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
June 30	"Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 245 performances
June 30	"Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 21 performances
June 30	United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
July 1	Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
July 1	Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show
July 1	Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
July 2	Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel"
July 2	U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
July 4	Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
July 4	U.S. most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville, Maryland
July 5	France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
July 6	70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)
July 6	85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England
July 6	Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher
July 6	Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats
July 7	63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
July 7	7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings
July 7	Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
July 8	Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open
July 8	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
July 9	Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand
July 10	23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D.C.
July 10	650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike
July 10	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
July 13	WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
July 14	Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
July 15	Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
July 15	Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
July 16	Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
July 16	Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
July 16	King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
July 16	Last Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
July 18	Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary
July 19	U.S. refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
July 20	France recognizes Tunisia's independence
July 20	Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
July 20	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
July 20	Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
July 21	Cincinnati Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
July 21	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
July 23	Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
July 23	Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
July 24	Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London
July 24	Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
July 25	38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
July 25	Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
July 25	Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force
July 26	Egypt seizes Suez Canal
July 27	Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester
July 29	11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
July 29	Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
July 29	WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
July 30	U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized
July 31	Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match
August 1	KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
August 3	Willie Williams of U.S. sets 100 meter record at 10.1
August 4	1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
August 4	Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog"
August 4	Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
August 5	KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
August 5	Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open
August 5	WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting
August 7	Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
August 7	British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
August 7	Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
August 8	Fire and explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
August 8	WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
August 9	1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
August 9	South African women demonstrate against pass laws
August 10	23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
August 11	1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
August 11	Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
August 12	KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
August 12	Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship
August 13	WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting
August 16	Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
August 16	Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
August 17	Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
August 18	Cincinnati Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 home runs in a 9 inning game
August 18	Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
August 19	Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
August 20	Republicans convene at Cow Palace
August 21	WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
August 22	Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender)
August 22	President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco
August 24	1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C.
August 25	To make room for Enos Slaughter, New York Yankees release Phil Rizzuto
August 26	KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
August 26	Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open
August 26	Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
August 27	Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game
August 28	England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
August 29	French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
August 30	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
August 30	White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
September 1	Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
September 1	KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting
September 2	Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
September 2	Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
September 2	Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
September 3	Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
September 5	20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
September 7	Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+
September 8	Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
September 9	70th U.S. Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64)
September 9	76th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63)
September 9	African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms
September 9	Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
September 10	Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
September 10	Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates
September 10	WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast
September 11	Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
September 11	Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
September 11	Yankees Yogi Berra ties career record for home runs (236) by a catcher
September 12	Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school
September 13	Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
September 13	Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice
September 14	1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington D.C.
September 16	Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
September 17	Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school
September 17	Yankees clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year
September 18	Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 home runs in a seaon
September 19	1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne)
September 21	Yankees set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway
September 24	1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
September 25	1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada)
September 25	Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
September 25	Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used
September 28	"Johnny Carson Show," TV Variety; last airs on CBS-TV
September 28	RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records
September 29	"I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle and Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
September 29	New York Yankees Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
September 29	"Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV
September 30	Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
September 30	White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
October 1	Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track
October 1	Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
October 2	1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
October 3	Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yankees 6-3 in opening game of World Series
October 4	Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
October 5	Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
October 6	Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
October 6	Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
October 6	South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
October 7	Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
October 8	Don Larsen, New York, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn
October 9	10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
October 10	Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi
October 10	On Skowron's grand slammer New York Yankees beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
October 11	1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
October 11	AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners
October 11	Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
October 12	Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister
October 13	WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins
October 14	Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning," premieres in New York City
October 14	Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open
October 15	Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
October 15	William J Brennan, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court
October 15	Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
October 16	"Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres
October 16	William J. Brennan, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice
October 17	England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
October 17	Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt
October 20	58 degrees F (15 degrees C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
October 20	Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
October 21	Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
October 22	France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
October 22	Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
October 23	1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
October 23	Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary
October 24	AP names Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
October 24	Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary
October 25	White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
October 26	U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
October 26	Vietnam promulgates its constitution
October 28	Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
October 29	Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
October 29	International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
October 29	Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
October 30	Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
October 30	Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
October 31	1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek
October 31	Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal
October 31	Brooklyn, New York ends streetcar service
November 1	Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union
November 1	Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms
November 1	Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
November 1	Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
November 1	Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen
November 1	Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
November 2	Hungary appeals for United Nations assistance against Soviet invasion
November 2	Israel captures Gaza and Sheham
November 3	"Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
November 4	200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
November 4	Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt
November 4	U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest
November 5	Britain and France land forces in Egypt
November 5	Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
November 5	Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba
November 5	Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime
November 6	Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary
November 6	President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E. Stevenson (D)
November 8	U.N. demands U.S.S.R. leave Hungary
November 9	Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St. Louis, to become NWA champ
November 10	Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in New York City
November 12	Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
November 13	Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
November 14	Hungarian revolt put down
November 15	Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City
November 15	"Li'l Abner" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 693 performances
November 17	Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate)
November 17	U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
November 18	Morocco gains independence
November 21	Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP and 1st-ever Cy Young Award
November 22	16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
November 22	Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
November 24	44th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 50-27
November 24	"Pajama Game" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 1063 performances
November 26	"The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
November 26	U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks
November 27	F Goodrich and A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank," premieres in Netherlands
November 28	Photography begins on "... and God Created Women"
November 29	"Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 925 performances
November 30	1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the News)
November 30	Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
December 1	Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0)
December 1	"Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 73 performances
December 1	Frank Robinson (NL) and Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year
December 1	Indonesian Vice President Mohammed Hatta, resigns
December 2	Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
December 3	England and France pull troops out of Egypt
December 3	KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft. Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
December 3	Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
December 4	22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (quarterback)
December 5	Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker," premieres in New York City
December 6	"Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 413 performances
December 6	Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa
December 7	Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
December 8	16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
December 8	1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
December 8	Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
December 10	Establishment of MPLA in Angola
December 11	Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin and Wroclaw Poland
December 13	Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 Robinson retires
December 14	Paul-Henri Spaak appointed Secretary-General of NATO
December 15	Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
December 15	KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
December 15	WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting
December 16	"Fanny" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 888 performances
December 18	Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai
December 18	Japan admitted to UN
December 18	Phil Rizzuto signs as New York Yankee radio-TV announcer
December 18	"To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV
December 20	Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
December 20	Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
December 22	Last British/French troops leave Egypt
December 22	"New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances
December 24	Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
December 24	"I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
December 27	45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0)
December 27	Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games
December 28	Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
December 30	New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game

1957 IN HISTORY

1957 in History

January 1 Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince and the Pauper," premieres in London January 1 France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge January 3 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa January 4 "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS) January 4 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000 January 5 Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants January 5 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East January 6 Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show January 6 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow, Russia January 9 British premier Anthony Eden resigns January 9 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR January 9 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" January 9 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR January 9 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR January 10 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain January 10 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates January 12 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded January 13 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate January 13 Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open January 13 NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10 January 13 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee January 15 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field January 16 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights January 16 Cavern Club (Beatle's) opens on Matthews Street in England January 17 9-county commission recommends creation of BART January 17 Cavern Club opens (home of Beatles' 1st appearance) January 18 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min January 19 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test January 20 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open January 20 Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election January 20 Morton Gould's "Declaration," premieres in Washington, D.C. January 21 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting January 22 Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula January 22 Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested January 25 FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for U.S.S.R. January 26 Bernanos and Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres January 26 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms January 26 India annexes Kashmir January 26 Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves January 27 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open January 28 "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie and Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen and Jack Paar) January 29 Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in New York City January 30 U.S. Congress accepts the Eisenhower-doctrine January 31 Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding) January 31 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished February 1 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline February 1 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam February 2 "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 73 performances February 2 United Nations adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt February 3 Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open February 4 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York) February 5 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Piano Concert February 8 San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall February 10 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open February 10 Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms February 11 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting February 11 NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president February 12 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed February 13 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans February 14 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites February 15 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister February 17 Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72 February 17 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open February 17 Suez Canal reopens February 20 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs. England, 13 wkts for match February 21 Dodgers (Ft. Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises February 22 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win February 22 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958 February 23 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 383 performances February 25 Buddy Holly and Crickets record "That'll Be the Day" February 25 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport February 27 Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" February 27 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files) February 28 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory March 1 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor March 1 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting March 1 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden New York City for 123 performances March 3 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then" March 3 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham and Jones (GRB) March 3 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) March 3 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA) March 3 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open March 3 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (U.S.) March 5 Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland March 5 Sergeant Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin) March 6 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from U.K. March 8 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston March 8 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships March 8 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test March 9 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska March 10 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy March 12 East Germany accepts 22 Russian divisions March 13 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba March 14 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns March 15 Britain becomes the 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb March 16 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young March 16 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship March 16 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating New York Rangers 14-1 March 17 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted March 17 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash March 18 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins March 19 Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score March 20 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it March 21 Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in New York City March 22 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian March 23 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 OTs) March 23 U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons March 25 NBA modifies the free-throw rule March 25 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market March 27 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win March 28 1st National Curling Championship held March 30 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony April 1 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising April 1 World's biggest glass oven used April 1 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting April 3 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London April 3 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test April 4 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris April 6 New York City ends trolley car service April 6 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) April 7 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283 April 9 Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Washington D.C. April 9 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping April 10 John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London April 10 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns April 10 Suez canal reopens for all traffic April 10 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test April 11 Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires April 11 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically April 12 Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record April 12 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test April 13 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 April 13 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win April 13 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temp halted April 13 "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances April 14 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship April 14 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open April 15 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery April 15 KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting April 15 Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million April 16 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 April 16 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test April 20 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05 April 20 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway April 21 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open April 21 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum April 22 All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies April 24 Chicago Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning April 25 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated April 25 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government April 25 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting April 26 Jamestown, Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens April 28 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open April 28 WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting April 29 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va May 1 Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord May 1 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast May 1 U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million May 1 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km May 4 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2 May 4 Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show May 4 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam May 5 Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria May 5 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open May 6 Italian government of Segni resigns May 6 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV May 6 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) May 7 Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald May 7 Major Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K) May 10 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon May 10 Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow May 11 Gabriel Paris forms government of Colombia May 12 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open May 14 Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in New York City May 14 "New Girt in Town" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 432 performances May 15 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade May 15 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) May 16 Major Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH May 16 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae May 16 U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut May 16 Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade May 17 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) May 18 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2 May 19 Adone Zoli forms Italian government May 21 French government of Mollet resigns May 22 KBTexas TV channel 3 in Bryan, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting May 22 Red Sox set AL record by smashing 4 home runs in 6th inning in 11-0 win May 22 South Africa government approves race separation in universities May 24 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan May 24 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia May 25 "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 49 performances May 26 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open May 28 NL approves Brooklyn Dodgers' and New York Giants' move to west coast May 28 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site May 28 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting May 29 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators May 29 Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns May 29 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast May 30 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid May 30 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs. England at Edgbaston May 31 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) June 1 1st U.S. runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) June 2 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament June 2 U.S. TV interviews Khrushchev June 3 Howard Cosell's 1st TV show June 4 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation June 4 May and Cowdrey make 411 stand vs. WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs June 5 New York narcotics investigator, Dr. Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes June 7 Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey vs. Northants June 9 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM June 10 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs June 10 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM June 10 John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada June 11 12 die in a train crash in Vroman, Colorado June 12 Paul Anderson of U.S. back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs) June 12 Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak) June 13 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season June 14 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois, state record June 14 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ June 15 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St. Louis, Illinois (state record) June 15 57th U.S. Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo June 15 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6 June 15 Yankees trade Billy Martin and Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran June 15 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 123 perf June 16 French offensive in Algeria June 16 White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 home runs to beat Washington Senators 8-6 June 17 "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra peaks at #2 June 17 Tuskegee boycott begins, Blacks boycotted city stores June 18 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada June 24 "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV June 25 "Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV June 27 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana and Texas June 28 Frick overrules and names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron to team June 28 Reds' fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters June 29 12th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls June 29 Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave U.S.S.R. Communist Party July 1 International Geophysical Year begins, ends December 31, 1958 July 1 WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast July 2 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback July 2 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes July 4 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase July 5 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62) July 5 Tom Graveney scores 258 vs. West Indies at Trent Bridge July 6 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62) July 6 Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney July 6 Harry S. Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri July 7 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast July 8 Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick July 8 CDC incorporates July 8 Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders July 9 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced July 12 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower July 12 U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer July 14 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270 July 15 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die July 15 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site July 16 Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08) July 19 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada July 19 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7) July 19 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site July 21 1st black to win a major U.S. tennis tournament, Althea Gibson July 21 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley Golf Club Dayton Ohio July 21 Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament July 24 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting July 24 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site July 25 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic July 25 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley July 25 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site July 26 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200 July 26 U.S.S.R. launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile July 27 St. James' Theater in London closes July 28 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance, Steve Allen Show July 28 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open July 28 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game July 29 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title July 29 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N. July 29 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres August 1 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) August 1 Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln) August 1 Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10") August 1 U.S. and Canada create NORAD August 3 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman August 5 "American Bandstand," begins network TV (ABC) August 5 Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million August 5 Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut August 5 WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions August 7 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site August 8 U.S.S.R. offers Syria economic/military aid August 9 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000) August 10 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site August 11 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open August 11 Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich August 15 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon August 15 USAF Captain Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter August 17 Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher August 18 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4 ") August 18 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open August 18 Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46 August 18 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site August 19 New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958 August 19 U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon August 20 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0 August 20 "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 62 performances August 20 USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m) August 20 White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0 August 21 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket) August 22 Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title August 23 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site August 24 British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea August 25 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao August 26 U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile August 27 Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes August 27 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site August 28 Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill August 29 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 August 29 Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights August 30 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site August 30 U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights August 31 Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain September 1 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400 September 1 WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting September 1 WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (NBC) 1st broadcast September 1 WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting September 2 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die September 2 Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game September 2 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site September 3 Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ) September 3 KTCA TV channel 2 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting September 3 Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out September 4 Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel September 4 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school September 5 Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising September 5 Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" September 6 Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" and "Here Comes Santa Claus" September 7 71st U.S. Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62) September 7 WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, Louisiana (CBS) begins broadcasting September 8 77th U.S. Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (108 75 64) September 8 Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite" September 8 Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV September 9 "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1 September 9 Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited September 9 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction September 10 "Mask and Gown" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 39 performances September 12 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits U.S. September 14 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia September 14 U.N. resolution deplores and condemns U.S.S.R. invasion of Hungary September 14 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site September 15 Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany September 15 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres September 15 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game September 16 Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed) September 16 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers September 17 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico September 17 KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting September 17 Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight September 17 Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat September 18 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels September 18 "Wagon Train" premieres September 19 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas, Nevada September 21 German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean September 21 Olav V, becomes king of Norway September 21 "Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premieres on CBS-TV September 21 Pote Sarasin forms government in Thailand September 22 Duke Snider's 39th and 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field September 22 "Maverick" premieres September 23 Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2 September 23 "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly and Crickets reaches #1 September 23 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw September 23 WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting September 24 Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0 September 24 Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools September 25 300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark September 25 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia September 25 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced September 26 Bernstein and Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres in New York City September 26 Dag Hammarskjold re-elected Secretary-General of UN September 26 Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway September 26 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. September 26 "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 734 performances September 27 Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built September 28 "Dollar A Second," last airs on NBC-TV September 28 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels September 28 "Gisele MacKenzie Show," debuts on NBC-TV September 28 "Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1 September 29 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan) September 29 Buddy Holly and Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away" September 29 "DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on CBS-TV September 29 New York Giants play and lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts) September 29 Passenger train and oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die September 29 "Paul Winchell Show," debuts on ABC-TV September 30 French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria September 30 WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting October 1 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of U.S.S.R. attack October 2 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores October 2 New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series October 3 Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin October 4 "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS October 4 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite October 5 11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal October 5 12th Ryder Cup: Britain - Ireland, 7 - 4 at Lindrick GC, England October 5 Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years October 6 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. October 6 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open October 7 "American Bandstand" premieres October 7 KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting October 7 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational October 8 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles October 8 Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes U.S. Minister of Defense October 8 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) October 8 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire October 9 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia October 10 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale October 10 Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series October 10 Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series October 10 President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant October 10 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. October 12 1st coml flight between California and Antartica October 12 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize October 12 "Mask and Gown" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 39 performances October 12 "Simply Heavenly" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 62 performances October 13 German Dem Rep recalls East Mark and issues new currency October 14 Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1 October 15 Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for San Francisco Seals-franchises only, not the players October 16 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia October 16 USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space October 17 Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits White House October 17 "Copper and Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 36 performances October 17 Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed October 17 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature October 17 II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan October 19 "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,022 performances October 19 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals October 20 Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt October 20 Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary October 21 Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team October 21 Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens October 21 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open October 22 Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany October 22 KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, Texas (NBC) 1st broadcast October 23 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3 October 25 Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed October 26 U.S.S.R. fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov October 26 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting October 27 Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey October 27 WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting October 27 WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting October 28 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting October 29 Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament) October 30 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow October 30 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika October 30 WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast October 30 WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting October 31 "Jamaica" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 558 performances November 1 KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting November 1 KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting November 1 WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting November 1 World longest suspension bridge opens in Mackinac Straits, Michigan November 2 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio November 3 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit November 4 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched November 5 Felix Gaillard forms government in France November 5 Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2 cents soccer pool ticket November 6 Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France November 6 "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 45 performances November 7 Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year November 7 WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast November 8 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island November 10 Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0 November 10 NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA November 11 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California and Hyde (SF) November 14 Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ November 14 Henry Aaron wins NL MVP November 15 U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 November 16 Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89 November 16 "Copper and Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 36 performances November 16 Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0 November 17 WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, WV (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting November 18 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons November 19 Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia November 20 Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in New York City November 22 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP November 22 Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY November 22 Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry" November 24 Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown sets club record of 237 yds rushing November 25 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech November 26 WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting November 27 Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration November 28 "Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in New York City November 28 Warren Spahn of the Braves wins Cy Young Award November 29 NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants November 30 45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7 November 30 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 November 30 "Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 413 performances December 1 Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show December 2 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn) December 2 Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1 December 3 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB) December 4 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published December 4 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St. John's England) December 5 New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law) December 5 William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," premieres in New York City December 6 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up December 6 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) December 6 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions December 7 Tony Kubek of the Yankees selected as AL Rookie of the Year December 9 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel December 11 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra December 12 Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham December 12 Major Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo December 12 U.S. announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond) December 14 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 678 performances December 14 "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 45 performances December 17 U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile December 18 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity December 19 "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1375 performances December 20 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service December 21 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war December 22 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins December 23 Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs. South Africa December 25 Ed Gein found insane of murder December 26 Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London December 28 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on December 28 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test December 29 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game December 29 Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas December 30 Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns December 30 New York Giants win NFL championship December 31 AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy

1958 IN HISTORY

1958 in History

January 1	BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7h57m
January 1	European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation
January 1	Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Loray White
January 1	WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
January 2	Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
January 3	Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
January 3	Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town
January 4	Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up
January 6	Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
January 6	Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
January 6	WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting
January 7	U.S.S.R. shrinks army to 300,000
January 8	Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
January 9	In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
January 10	Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
January 12	Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
January 12	NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring
January 12	NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-7
January 12	Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points
January 13	9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition United Nations for nuclear test ban
January 13	U.S. newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
January 15	New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
January 16	William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw," premieres in New York City
January 18	1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
January 19	Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
January 20	Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
January 20	KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
January 21	KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
January 21	Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City (doesn't happen)
January 22	KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
January 23	"Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 60 performances
January 23	Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power
January 23	Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs. West Indies
January 24	After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
January 26	H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense
January 26	Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
January 26	Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
January 27	Ferenc Munnich follows Kadar as premier of Hungary
January 28	Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
January 28	Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck
January 29	Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
January 29	Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward wed
January 30	1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
January 30	Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars
January 30	Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in New York City
January 30	House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
January 31	"Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
January 31	James van Allen discovers radiation belt
January 31	U.S. launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
February 1	1st U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched
February 1	Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
February 1	WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting
February 2	Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open
February 2	Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
February 2	WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, Puerto Rico (PTC) begins broadcasting
February 3	Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart and peaks at #3
February 4	Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
February 4	"Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 192 performances
February 5	Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania)
February 5	Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
February 5	Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI vs. Pakistan, Port-of-Spain
February 5	Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
February 6	7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
February 6	Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
February 7	1st showing of DAF 600 auto
February 7	Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
February 7	Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
February 8	Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
February 8	French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
February 8	KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
February 11	1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York
February 11	Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs
February 11	WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting
February 12	Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101
February 12	General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala
February 14	Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms
February 15	Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
February 15	Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
February 15	Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA
February 15	Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
February 15	Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra
February 16	Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open
February 17	Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
February 17	WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
February 19	Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
February 20	Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
February 20	Los Angeles Coliseum Commission approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility
February 21	Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president with 99.9 percent of the vote
February 21	"Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 3 performances
February 22	Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
February 22	Egypt and Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
February 22	Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
February 22	"Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 3 performances
February 23	5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
February 23	Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina
February 23	Last Municipal arc light, Mission and 25th removed (installed in 1913)
February 23	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
February 27	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
February 28	West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
March 1	Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara
March 1	Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
March 1	West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl vs. Pakistan
March 2	1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
March 2	Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
March 2	Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
March 3	KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
March 3	Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
March 5	Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
March 5	KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
March 7	Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
March 8	Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
March 8	William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters
March 9	George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
March 11	Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
March 11	Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
March 12	British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
March 13	Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
March 14	Recording Industry Association of American created
March 14	RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
March 14	South Africa government disallows ANC
March 14	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 14	U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
March 15	"Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 60 performances
March 15	KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, Montana (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
March 15	Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts
March 15	Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled
March 15	U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
March 16	Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
March 17	Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape
March 18	Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
March 19	Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London
March 19	Sobers completes a century in each innings vs. Pakistan
March 20	50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
March 20	Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
March 20	Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
March 21	1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
March 21	U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
March 22	20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
March 22	Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
March 22	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
March 24	Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
March 25	Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
March 25	West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
March 26	30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward and Guinness win
March 26	U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
March 27	CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
March 27	Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st sect of Communist Party
March 29	U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
March 29	U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
March 31	U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division
March 31	U.S.S.R. suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges U.S. and Britain to do same
April 1	KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, California (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
April 1	Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
April 2	Antillean Brewery, maker of Amstel beer, opens
April 2	National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
April 2	Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record)
April 3	"Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 332 performances
April 4	1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
April 4	Eugene Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt
April 6	Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
April 7	Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line
April 10	Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
April 11	Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco
April 12	12th NBA Championship: St. Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2
April 12	Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
April 13	12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win
April 14	Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
April 15	10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young and Jane Wyatt
April 15	1st baseball game in California, San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-0
April 16	22nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
April 16	French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
April 17	Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens
April 18	Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia
April 18	NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles
April 19	62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
April 20	Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
April 20	Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open
April 20	Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
April 20	Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
April 23	Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR and Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
April 24	Lee Walls hits 3 home runs, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
April 28	Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
April 28	Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
April 28	Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
April 30	Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
May 1	Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
May 1	Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina
May 2	Yankees threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into New York City
May 3	84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
May 3	WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
May 4	Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia
May 5	KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (PBS) begins broadcasting
May 5	Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
May 5	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
May 7	Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
May 8	President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock
May 8	Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru
May 9	Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
May 11	Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
May 11	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
May 11	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
May 12	"Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo and The Dont's hits #40
May 12	U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
May 13	French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
May 13	Jordan and Iraq form Arab Federation
May 13	Pierre Pflimlin forms French government
May 13	Rioters attack U.S. Vice President Nixon in Venezuela
May 13	Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
May 15	U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik III
May 16	Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico
May 16	Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
May 17	84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
May 17	Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
May 18	Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
May 19	Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London
May 19	South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
May 19	U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
May 20	U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
May 21	Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
May 21	U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
May 23	Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
May 24	"New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 432 performances
May 24	President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
May 24	UP and International News Service merge into United Press International
May 26	Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
May 26	U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
May 26	Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark
May 27	Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
May 27	Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
May 28	French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle
May 28	Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
May 29	Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels
May 30	U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
May 30	Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington
May 31	Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
May 31	U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
June 1	Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
June 1	Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
June 1	Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open
June 2	Alan Freed joins WABC (New York City) radio
June 2	Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
June 2	Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
June 3	Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers
June 4	French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers