Mar 13 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman

Mar 04 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister

Mar 25 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied

Mar 29 Turkey recognizes Israel

Mar 09 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA

Mar 23 The Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day.

Mar 24 Walter &John Huston become first father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor &director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre")

Mar 24 21st Academy Awards "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier &Jane Wyman win

Mar 01 Heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber," retires after holding the title for more than 11 years.

Mar 19 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge TN

Mar 02 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes first nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth TX, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hours

Mar 09 The first all-electric dining car was placed in service -- on the Illinois Central Railroad.

Mar 02 A US Air Force B-50 Superfortress, the Lucky Lady Two, lands in Texas, after completing the first non-stop around the globe flight.

Mar 09 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes

Mar 18 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified

Mar 13 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

Mar 04 Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes world champion billiard player

Mar 31 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province

Mar 24 21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier &Jane Wyman win

Mar 02 The first automatic street light (New Milford CT)

Mar 04 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel

Mar 18 NATO set up by seven European countries

Aug 24 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established

Aug 08 Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy

Aug 09 The first use in the United States of a pilot-ejection seat for an emergency escape, was made by Lieutenant J. L. Fruin of VF-171 from an F2H-1 Banshee while making over 500 knots in the vicinity of Walterboro, S.C.

Aug 20 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution

Aug 23 The birth of Shelly Long, American actress

Aug 20 78,382 watch the White Sox play the Indians at Cleveland

Aug 10 The Avro Canada C.102 Jetliner takes maiden flight; designed to meet a Trans-Canada Airlines requirement; first jet transport to fly in North America and second to fly in the world

Aug 29 USSR explodes its first atomic bomb

Aug 10 Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense

Aug 03 The National Basketball Association was formed.

Aug 22 In the Queen Charlotte Island a 8.1 earthquake was Canada's largest historic earthquake.

Sep 19 The birth of Twiggy, English model and actress

Sep 15 The Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV

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