1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China

1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers &Hammerstein (South Pacific)

1951 600,000 march for peace &freedom in Germany

1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir

1951 Mickey Mantle's first homerun

1951 The 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group sent to join United Nations forces in Korea.

1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada

1952 Mr Potato Head, introduced

1952 TWA introduces tourist class

1954 HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)

1957 Larry King's first radio broadcast

1957 US give Poland credit of $95 million

1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km

1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai

1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina

1959 Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1959 Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.

1959 West Germany introduces 5 day work week

1960 CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk

1960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states

1960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis

1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba

1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain

1961 The first US airplane hijacked to Cuba

1962 JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)

1962 The first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara

1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands

1963 The first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest

1964 The first BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)

1965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon

1966 Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)

1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational

1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting

1966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia

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