1948 General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade effective

1948 Italy adopts constitution

1948 Orissa province accedes to India

1949 Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand

1950 Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo-China

1951 Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines

1952 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet

1953 Country singer Hank Williams Sr. dies

1954 Rose & Cotton Bowl are first sport colorcasts

1954 Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism

1955 Bhutan issues its first postage stamps

1956 Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville

1956 Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) gains independence from Britain & Egypt

1957 France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Republic

1957 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-month year)

1958 BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7hours 57minutes

1958 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation

1958 Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White

1959 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dominican Republic

1959 Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community

1959 Fidel Castro leads Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.

1959 Rohan Kanhai completes 256 vs India at Calcutta

1960 Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20¢

1960 Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France

1960 Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars

1960 Montserrat adopts constitution

1960 US census at 179,245,000

1961 Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion)

1961 Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11

1962 Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful

1962 Navy SEAL teams established

1962 Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium

1962 Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand; Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa

1963 G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank

1964 Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved

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