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1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane 
1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
1949 Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day".
1949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
1950 "Arms and the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances.
1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing.
1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens
1951 Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies
1952 European Defense Community forms
1952 European Defense Community Treaty, establishing an EU army, signed.
1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1954 Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies
1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV.
1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0.
1956 French raid in Algiers.
1957 Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) is recorded as becoming Canada's inaugural radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
1958 Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1960 Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65.
1961 In this year, Fiorentina claims inaugural Europe Cup II in Florence.
1961 President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon.
1961 The inaugural "black light" is sold can disco be far ahead?.
1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected inaugural prime minister of Kenya
1963 Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered.
1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US.
1964 In this year, Inter Milan claims 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna.
1964 Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74
1965 HMAS Sydney departs on inaugural voyage to Vietnam with 1 RAR.
1965 In this year, Inter Milan claims 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan
1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes.
1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
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