Jul 27 The Korean War officially ends with the armistice signing at Panmunjom.

Jul 09 The first helicopter passenger service (NYC)

Jul 25 NYC transit fare rises from 10. to 15., first use of subway tokens

Jul 26 Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban rev

Jul 06 J Churms discovers asteroid #1701 Okavango

Jul 31 Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created

Mar 28 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins

Mar 19 Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real", premieres in New York NY

Mar 03 British Comet jet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed

Mar 06 Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR

Mar 31 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld Secretary-General

Mar 19 25th Academy Awards "Greatest Show on Earth", Gary Cooper &Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)

Mar 15 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1

Mar 28 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright

Mar 30 Einstein announces revised unified field theory

Mar 08 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years

Mar 07 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron, in Chile

Mar 11 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches

Mar 01 US removes embargo on Canadian livestock placed after outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 1952

Mar 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 17 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 31 Department of Health, Education and Welfare established

Mar 09 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow

Mar 18 Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die

Mar 26 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to prevent polio [myelitis]

Mar 07 Jackie McGlew scores 255 vs New Zealand at Wellington

Mar 19 Cecil B. DeMille received the only Oscar of his illustrious career for the circus extravaganza, The Greatest Show on Earth

Mar 14 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party

Mar 22 Antonín Zápotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia

Mar 05 Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies at age 73.

Mar 27 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH

Mar 05 Josef Stalin's death announced

Mar 07 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances

Mar 03 A Canadian Pacific Comet jet crashes with 11 fatalities; world's first commercial jet crash.

Mar 08 A census bureau report indicated that 239,000 farmers had quit tilling the soil and planting crops (giving up farming) over the previous two years.

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