1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight

1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WW II

1943 Clark's forces enter Naples, Italy.

1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro C¢rdova assassinated in Guatemala

1944 The Channel ports are in Allied hands

1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from the army

1946 Truculent Turtle lands at Columbus, Ohio, breaking world's record for distance without refueling with flight of 11,235 miles.

1947 NHL Pension Society founded

1947 The first helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca

1947 US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends

1948 Calif Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages

1948 Radio Denmark begins transmitting

1949 Military Sea Transportation Service activated.

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung

1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on the island of Formosa

1951 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated

1951 The first treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson

1952 The first ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or

1953 Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras

1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation

1955 "Honeymooners" premieres

1955 Commissioning of USS Forrestal (CVA-59), first of postwar supercarriers

1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack

1958 Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia

1958 Inauguration of NASA

1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA

1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1961 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha

1961 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon

1961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs, last off of Tracy Stallard

1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)

1962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977

1962 James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi

1962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests

1962 The Lucy Show premiers

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