September 23, 1952 – Rocky Marciano becomes world Heavyweight Champion
Rocky Marciano had been a professional boxer for only a little over four years when he defeated Jersey Joe Walcott...
May 5, 2018
We Didn’t Start The Fire (Billy Joel song)
November 1, 1952 — The first full test of a Hydrogen bomb is made
The bomb was code-named “Ivy Mike”. It was the first test of the Teller-Ulam bomb design, which produced yield estimated...
May 4, 2018
June 2, 1953 — Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Technically, Elizabeth Windsor became the Queen of England as soon as her father, King George VI died on February 2...
April 24, 2018
June 17, 1953 — The East German Uprising peaks
Beginning as a strike by 300 construction workers in East Berlin on June 16, 1953, what would become known as...
April 14, 2018
June 19, 1953 — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed
Julius and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg were a married couple from New York City. Of Jewish-American origin, the two had met...
April 9, 2018
May 7, 1954 — Dien Bien Phu falls
The fall of Dien Bien Phu marked the unofficial end of French Indo-China. The French Far East Expeditionary Corps was...
March 24, 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
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
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
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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