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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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