Army-McCarthy hearings
Birth Control trials begin
Cold War
DuMont TV network folds
Eisenhower Administration
Frontierland, and all of Disneyland, opens
Grove Press
The Hydrogen bomb, Dimitri I Love Lucy
James, Etta - begins her epic singing career
Kerouac, Jack
Lewis, Jerry Lee
MacArthur at Inchon
Norgay, Tenzing - first to reach the summit of Everest
Oz, The Wizard of - first broadcast on TV (1956)
Army-McCarthy hearings
Birth Control trials begin
Cold War
DuMont TV network folds
Eisenhower Administration
Frontierland, and all of Disneyland, opens
Grove Press
The Hydrogen bomb, Dimitri I Love Lucy
James, Etta - begins her epic singing career
Kerouac, Jack
Lewis, Jerry Lee
MacArthur at Inchon
Norgay, Tenzing - first to reach the summit of Everest
Otto Graham, pre-Superbowl champs
Patti Page, the singing rage
Queen Elizabeth II coronation
Rosenberg executions
Supreme Court decision Cooper v. Aaron
Truman, Harry S.
Uranium prospectors
Vickers Viscount
Women’s Lib
X-Ray fluoroscopes in shoe stores (later banned in the 1950s) Your Show of Shows
Zenith Lazy Bones TV remote is first marketed.