Sep 19 Twiggy, British actress/model born

Sep 17 Steamer "Noronic" burns at pier killing 128 (Toronto Canada)

Jun 26 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury

Jun 04 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950

Jun 24 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board

Jun 01 The first magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)

Jun 29 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

Jun 24 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes first network western (NBC)

Jun 14 State of Vietnam formed

Jun 02 Transjordan renamed Jordan

Jun 21 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #1886 Lowell

Jun 23 First 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School

Jun 03 Dragnet is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)

Jun 22 The birth of Meryl Streep, American film actress

Jun 29 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II

Jun 27 W Baade discovers asteroid #1566 Icarus

Jun 16 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa

Jun 03 The first negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)

Jun 22 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for the boxing title

Jun 22 The birth of Lindsay Wagner, US film and television actress

Jun 09 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes first woman treasurer of US

Dec 27 Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia

Dec 29 Hungary nationalized its industries

Dec 04 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run

Dec 16 Swedish Carmaker DebutsA Swedish company by the name of Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget produced its first motorcar. In 1965 the concern changed its name to Saab Aktiebolag, and a few years later simply to Saab. The first Saab automobiles were engineered with the precision of fighter planes--the company's other main product.

Dec 04 The birth of Jeff Bridges, American actor

Dec 27 United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands

Dec 13 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capitol to Jerusalem

Dec 25 The birth of Sissy Spacek, American actress

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

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