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HISTORY FACTS 1950s
Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips introduced radio listeners to Elvis Presley on July 8, 1953, when he played "That's All Right" on his "Red, Hot, and Blue show."
HISTORY FACTS 1950s
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea receives a 1953 Pulitzer Prize. In 1954, the author is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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HISTORY FACTS 1950s
The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, launches on January 21, 1954.
HISTORY FACTS 1950s
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refuses to vacate her seat aboard a Montgomery, AL, bus.
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HISTORY FACTS 1950s
Fred Gipson publishes the novel, Old Yeller in 1956 and receives a Newbury Honor in 1957.
HISTORY FACTS 1950s
CBS debuts Leave It to Beaver on October 4, 1957.
HISTORY FACTS 1950s
Brazil wins its first Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, beating Sweden 5-2, on June 29, 1958.
HISTORY FACTS 1950s
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states, respectively, in 1959.
A stork shot by a hunter in Germany in 1822 was found with a Central African spear piercing its throat, providing scientists with the first evidence for long-distance bird migration.
The Easter Island “heads” have bodies.
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Over half the world's population lives within a 5000-mile-wide circle in East Asia.
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For decades, artist Al Hirschfeld hid the name of his daughter Nina in his drawings for The New York Times and elsewhere. He'd add the number of times her name appeared to his signature, creating a game for readers, who would try and find each appearance.
HISTORY FACTS 1950s
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone begins airing October 2, 1959.
HISTORY FACTS 1960s
On July 15, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy accepts the Democratic nomination for president at Memorial Colliseum, Los Angeles, CA.
HISTORY FACTS 1960s
After 13 years, NBC cancels Howdy Doody. The last episode airs September 24, 1960.
HISTORY FACTS 1960s
Harper Lee's 1961 book To Kill A Mockingbird is a bestseller.
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Beethoven went out of his way to ensure his morning coffee was made with exactly 60 beans per cup.
The term “lawn mullet” means having a neatly manicured front yard and an unmowed mess in the back.
Octopuses don’t have tentacles; they have arms. A tentacle only has suckers at its end, while a cephalopod arm has suckers for most of its length.
HISTORY FACTS 1960s
On October 1, 1962, James H. Meredith becomes the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi.
HISTORY FACTS 1960s
Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique critiques the myth that a woman's identity is linked to childrearing and the accomplishments of their husbands.