October 16, 1951 — Johnnie Ray and the Four Lads release “Cry”
Although it took nearly six months to reach #1 on the charts, reach that storied number it did, and made...
May 24, 2018
Art & Culture
November 30, 1951 — “When Worlds Collide” premieres
George Pal was the producer of some of the most famous science fiction movies of the Fifties – Destination Moon,...
May 19, 2018
July 1, 1952 — “The Liberace Show” is first broadcast
Liberace was one of the first of a new breed of entertainer in post war America. He saw that television...
May 7, 2018
March 12, 1953 — Ron Jeremy born
One of the stalwarts of the so-called ‘golden age of porn’ (i.e. the seventies and early eighties), Ronald Jeremy Hyatt...
May 1, 2018
March 15, 1953 — The first World Contact Day is held
World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as...
April 30, 2018
August 11, 1953 — Hulk Hogan born
Born Terry Gene Bollea in Augusta, Georgia, and from the age of about 16, he doesn’t seem to have ever...
April 7, 2018
December 6, 1953 — Nabokov finishes writing “Lolita”
Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century. Its subject matter – a...
April 1, 2018
January 20, 1954 — William Burroughs writes his first letter home from Tangier
Burroughs was inspired by the works of Paul Bowles to visit Tangier, and found it much to his liking. He...
March 29, 2018
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
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
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