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Monday, 06 July 2026
Nov 28 KMVI (now WMAU) TV channel 12 in Wailuku, HI (IND) begins broadcasting 
Nov 29 Turkish government of Menderes steps down.
Nov 30 "Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances.
Nov 30 Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59.
Dec 01 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to back of the bus.
Dec 01 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress during segragation, refuses to give her bus seat to a white man, an event that sparked the Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott, one of the critical events in the U.S. civil rights fight
Dec 01 The inaugural remote-control railroad passenger car went into service on this day.
Dec 03 KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Dec 04 Mgr Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
Dec 05 AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president
Dec 05 Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
Dec 05 The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous trade unions in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, is formed
Dec 06 New York psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64000 Question" on boxing.
Dec 06 NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64000 Question" on boxing
Dec 06 The Federal government standardized the size of license plates throughout the U.S. Previously, individual states had designed their own license plates, resulting in wide variations.
Dec 07 Clement Attlee steps down as chairman of England's Labour Party.
Dec 08 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB).
Dec 08 Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, dies at 69
Dec 11 Franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51
Dec 12 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by Brit eng Christoper Cockerell.
Dec 12 Hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell
Dec 14 Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Rumania, and Spain all join the United Nations.
Dec 14 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar
Dec 17 Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes. Less than 48 hours later, he recorded it at the Sun Studios in Memphis
Dec 19 Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
Dec 20 Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom
Dec 21 Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65.
Dec 22 Len Braund, cricketer (23 Tests for England 987 runs 47 wkts), dies.
Dec 24 Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67
Dec 28 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)
Dec 29 Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
Dec 29 Barbra Streisand's inaugural recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13.
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