1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia

1952 The United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) is formed.

1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts

1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television great show for it's time

1953 Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands first female assistant Secretary of state

1953 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835

1954 First TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres

1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire

1955 H C Hansen appointed premier of Denmark

1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking

1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam

1957 The first black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline

1958 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women

1958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic

1958 US satellite (Explorer I) launched

1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)

1959 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss

1959 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins

1960 4 students stage first civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth

1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender

1961 A full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful

1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive

1961 Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies

1963 Neil Young performs his first professional date at a Winnipeg country club, at age 17.

1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda

1964 "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances

1964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," first #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks

1964 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity

1964 Suriname River dammed

1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam

1965 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL

1965 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news

1965 The Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Spencer Churchill

1966 Buster Keaton, famous comic film star, dies at age 69.

1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives

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