May 20, 1954 — “Rock Around The Clock” released
One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock… Rightly or wrongly, this is the song – and Bill Haley and his...
March 19, 2018
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June 9, 1954 — Joseph Welch stops Joseph McCarthy in his tracks
Joseph McCarthy had been hunting the Reds under America’s beds for years when he turned his attention to the Army...
March 14, 2018
October 10, 1954 — David Lee Roth born
‘Diamond’ Dave Lee Roth is best known as the lead singer of Van Halen (or at least, the lead singer...
March 9, 2018
October 7, 1955 — Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” is first performed
The greatest poem of the Beat Generation writers, and one of the finest of the 20th century, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”...
February 28, 2018
June 23, 1956 — Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes President of Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser was a colonel in the Egyptian army who wasn’t satisfied with the status quo of post-colonial Egypt....
February 21, 2018
March 10, 1957 — Osama bin Laden born
The mastermind of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (although some sources, notably the...
February 13, 2018
May 3, 1957 — The Brooklyn Dodgers agree to relocate to California
In 1957, there were no professional baseball teams in the World Series (that is, the baseball league of the USA)...
February 12, 2018
May 5, 1958 — The discovery of Nobelium is announced
Nobelium is a trans-uranic element whose atomic number is 102. A radioactive metal, it was first created in April 1958...
January 29, 2018
August 12, 1958 — “White Wilderness” premieres
The legendary documentary that began the whole “lemmings commit suicide” myth, ‘White Wilderness’ was 72 minutes of the Disney Corporation...
January 24, 2018
January 8, 1959 — Cuban Revolution ends in Communist victory
The fall of Cuba’s Batista government, after six years of fighting between government forces and Castro’s revolutionary army, was officially...
January 19, 2018
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