1961 - The year Virgil was born!!!! What could be more important than that to me?
Ernest Hemingway commits suicide.
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1961 - The year Virgil was born!!!! What could be more important than that to me?
Ernest Hemingway commits suicide.
1960 March 6 — Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers are going to be sent to Vietnam.
And on Thanksgiving Day, in Womack Army Hospital, Fort Brag, NC, a baby boy is born who will one day be known around the globe as "Pendragon".
1959: Rock stars Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper die when the Beechcraft Bonanza they are traveling in crashes during a snow storm in Iowa.
Agfa introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.
In New York City, Ingemar Johansson scored a 3rd round TKO over Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight Championship
...and finally: Yours truly was born on Christmas Day
1958: January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
March 11 - U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no nuclear fission occurs.
August 3 - The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water
1957:
October 4 - Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite:
November 3 - Launch of Sputnik 2, with a dog called Laika on board, the first living thing sent into space.
December 6 - US attempt launch of Vanguard TV3 which fails after just two seconds in the air. This is why children of many US engineers learned to count in a new way: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..... Oh, S##t! ;)
1976- March 26 - Queen Elizabeth II, Sent the first royal e-mail
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1956
January 8 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them
April 19 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
June 14 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the phrase "under God" should be added to the Pledge of Allegiance
December 2 - Fidel Castro and his followers land on Cuba in the boat Granma.
1955
March 20 - Blackboard Jungle opens in theaters featuring the song Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and his Comets, thus propelling Rock and Roll as a musical genre. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.
July 17 - Disneyland opens.
September 30 - Actor James Dean killed in car accident near Cholame, California.
1954: The United States Senate votes 67 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." Church of Scientology founded in California.
1953- New Zealander Edmund Hilary and his sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1952 It was leap year!
February 6 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI.
April 28 - The Treaty of San Francisco goes into effect, formally ending the occupation of Japan
September 2 - Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and Dr. F. John Lewis perform first open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota
1951 - United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York. Chinese communist forces move into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
1950
June 24, 1950 -
North Korea Invades the South. The Korean War began with an attack made by North Korean forces across the 38th parallel dividing North and South Korea. The attack was a complete surprise to the American administration. It was feared that this attack heralded the beginning of World War III.
1949 - January 17 - The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought over to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America. that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.)