1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes first US woman Olympics slalom champion

1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chicago

1953 "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC

1953 5th Emmy Awards I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell &Helen Hayes win

1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams MA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1956 7th Winter Olympics games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

1956 Louise Suggs win LPGA Havana Golf Open

1956 New York Mayor Robert Wagner &Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30 million

1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert

1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as first US black foreign minister (Romania)

1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated first President of United Arab Republic

1958 Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, West Indies vs Pakistan, Port-of-Spain

1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km

1959 "Redhead" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 455 performances

1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide

1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence

1962 HSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial.

1962 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed

1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º

1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars

1963 Soviet lunar probe failure

1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels

1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island

1967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)

1967 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua

1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren

1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (IND) begins broadcasting

1968 Skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m

1969 "Turn-On," debuts &cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly

1969 US population reaches 200 million

1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice president, general manager &head coach of Redskins

1970 First Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six

1970 Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs Australia, Durban

1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale FL (IND) suspends broadcasting

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