An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 18...A total lunar eclipse took place on April 2..1950..
January 16 — The BBC Light Programme 1st broadcasts the daily children's radio feature Listen with Mother \ 23 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel - 31 President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949 / February 9 – Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists \ 12 - Pro-communist riots erupt in Paris - European Broadcasting Union is founded - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction...
March 1 - Klaus Fuchs is convicted in London of spying against both Britain and the United States for the Soviet Union, by giving to the latter top secret atomic bomb data / 12 – A plane carrying returning rugby fans from Ireland to Wales crashes near Llandow, with the loss of 80 lives \ 18 – The Belgian government collapses after the March 12 referendum favouring of the return from exile of King Léopold III / 23 - The 22nd Academy Awards ceremony is held ..
April 1 — Corby, a village in Northamptonshire, is designated as the 1st new town in central England, providing homes for up to 40,000 people by the 1960s - Charles R. Drew, 45, African-American surgeon, who pioneered preservation techniques for use in blood banks,dies following an automobile accident - F.O. Matthiessen, 48, American historian and literary critic, after jumping to his death from the 12th story of a Boston hotel.. In 1923 Matthiessen graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones \ 4 - The United Nations Trusteeship Council passed the "Statute on Jerusalem, declaring that the city should be considered international territory and a demilitarized zone / 5 - At a gathering, Lloyd Berkner proposed worldwide series of atmospheric observations starting 7 years in the future, in 1957, concept endorsed by the persons present which would become the International Geophysical Year \ 6 - A train fell off of a bridge at Tanguá in Brazil, killing 110 people, mostly persons who were on a vacation trip during the Easter holiday - Dr. Charles P. Bailey, an American heart surgeon in Philadelphia, made the 1st successful human test of an instrument to dilate the aortic valve / 8 - In the 1st shootdown of an American military aircraft by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, 2 Soviet Lavochkin La-11 fighters intercepted and downed a U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer surveillance plane that was flying over or near the Latvian SSR with 10 men on board, the 1st of over 350 American servicemen lost in Cold War missions \ 9 - Biochemists Thomas H. Jukes and Robert Stokstad of Lederle Laboratories announced their accidental discovery of the increased production that resulted from antibiotics mixed into animal feed / 17 - A California man placed a time bomb into the luggage of a United Airlines flight departing from Los Angeles to San Diego with 16 people on board \ 27 - The United Kingdom formally recognized Israel, with de jure recognition following the de facto recognition that had been made since January 29, 1949.. On the same day, the U.K. recognized the annexation of the West Bank by Jordan / 28 - In Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej married Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, one week before his coronation \ 29 - Douglas S. McKiernan became the 1st CIA agent to be killed in the course of a mission, after he was mistakenly shot by Tibetan border guards while trying to cross into India. Killed along with McKiernan were 2 Belarusan guides, Stephani Yanuishkin and Leonid Shutov, and all 3 were decapitated after their deaths. A group of couriers from the Dalai Lama, who were supposed to inform the border guards that the Americans and Belarusans were to be given safe passage, had been 5 days too late in delivering the message..
Eclipse cycles have a period in which a certain number of synodic months closely equals an integer or half-integer number of draconic months: one such period after an eclipse, a syzygy (new moon or full moon) takes place again near a node of the Moon's orbit on the ecliptic, and an eclipse can occur again. However,the synodic and draconic months are incommensurate: their ratio is not an integer number...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a male reindeer with a Glowing red nose popularly known as "Santa's 9th Reindeer." When depicted, he is the lead reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve.. The luminosity of his nose is so Great that it illuminates the team's path through inclement Winter Weather...
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The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the 1st ever general election to be held after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950, resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just 5 seats, a stark contrast to the previous election in 1945, where they had achieved a massive 146-seat majority, although Labour in fact received more votes than they had during the 1945 election.. The party would call another general election in 1951..
1st - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes - On August 15, 1945, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he made apparent reference to the atomic bomb in his Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War: "Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should We continue to fight, not only would it result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization" / 6 - The Air Force of the Republic of China, flying from the island of Taiwan made a successful bombing raid on the Communist Chinese mainland, striking the People's Republic's largest city, Shanghai; the 17 aircraft, including two B-29 bombers, targeted the power plants of Shanghai's electrical power plants, shutting down the electricity in 90% of the city.. According to the PRC, 500 people were killed, 600 were injured and 50,000 were left homeless by the raid - Born: Natalie Cole, American singer, in Los Angeles \ 13 - British Columbia B-36 crash - Off the west coast of Canada, the U.S. Air Force lost a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mark 4 nuclear bomb - Born: Peter Gabriel, former member of Genesis / 17 - Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China, returned home from the Soviet Union after a stay of 2 months. Mao had arrived in Moscow on December 16, 1949 and remained there for 9 weeks - King Abdullah I of Jordan and Mossad Director Reuven Shiloah of Israel met at the King's winter palace at El Shuneh, where the King presented a 7 point treaty proposal - Died: "Judy", 12, pointer dog for the British ship HMS Grasshopper \ 22 - Egypt and Israel signed a General Armistice Agreement at Auja al-Hafir, a town on the border between the 2 nations.. The Agreement defined the boundaries of the Gaza Strip as a neutral zone between the Muslim and Jewish countries, which had fought a war less than 2 years earlier - Born Julie Walters and Miou-Miou / 26 - Hungarian-American nuclear physicist Leó Szilárd appeared with other atomic scientists on the NBC Radio program University of Chicago Round Table, and first described the cobalt bomb, whose radioactive cobalt-60 fallout cloud could spread across the world and destroy all life on Earth - Born: Helen Clark, 37th PM of New Zealand (1999-2008), in Hamilton - Yunnan Province, the last Nationalist Chinese stronghold in "Mainland China", as Communist Chinese troops marched into the provincial capital, Kunming...
Sir Henry Lauder (4 August 1870 – 26 February 1950), known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador"...
28 - U.S. Undersecretary of State John Peurifoy testified to a Senate subcommittee that most of the 91 U.S. State Department employees who had been dismissed as security risks, weren't barred because of Communist leanings, but because they were homosexual. The result was a wave of investigations and dismissals of gays and lesbians from Federal government employment - Died: Dai Wangshu, 44, Chinese poet...
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The total lunar eclipse that occurred on the 2nd of April 1950 happened on the Jewish Passover holiday and was the 3rd of a 4 series lunar eclipse Tetrad ( 4 total lunar eclipses occurring in a row with intervals of 6 lunations ) sequence which began on the 1949 Jewish Passover during the Israeli War of Independence...Date 15 May 1948 – 10 March 1949 (9 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)..
Passover commences on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nisan and lasts for either 7 days (in Israel) or 8 days (in the diaspora). In Judaism, a day commences at dusk and lasts until the following dusk, thus the 1st day of Passover only begins after dusk of the 14th of Nisan and ends at dusk of the 15th day of the month of Nisan. The rituals unique to the Passover celebrations commence with the Passover Seder when the 15th of Nisan has begun. In the Northern Hemisphere Passover takes place in spring as the Torah prescribes it: "in the month of spring" (בחדש האביב Exodus 23:15). It is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays..
The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation over 3,300 years ago by God from slavery in ancient Egypt that was ruled by the Pharaohs, and their birth as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt...
The Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Indians, about 2-3rds of whom were women and children. The location has been designated the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site and is administered by the National Park Service...
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The Plagues of Egypt (Hebrew: מכות מצרים, Makot Mitzrayim), also called the Ten Plagues (Hebrew: עשר המכות, Eser HaMakot) or the Biblical Plagues, were ten calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, Israel's God, Yahweh, inflicted upon Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to release the ill-treated Israelites from slavery. Pharaoh capitulated after the 10th plague, triggering the Exodus of the Jewish people...
The blood of this sacrifice sprinkled on the door-posts of the Israelites was to be a sign to God, when passing through the land to slay the first-born of the Egyptians that night, that he should pass by the houses of the Israelites (Exodus 12:1-28) This is called in the Mishnah the "Passover of Egypt" (Pesaḥ Miẓrayim in M.Pesach ix. 5). It was ordained, furthermore (Exodus 12:24-27), that this observance should be repeated annually for all time once the Israelites entered into their promised land...
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Vintage television advertisement for the Man In Space toy set from the 1950′s...
May 1 – UNRWA operations begin..Created in December 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency, originally intended to provide jobs on public works projects and direct relief for 652,000 Arabs who fled or were expelled from Israel during the fighting that followed the end of the British mandate over Palestine - New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China \ 8 - Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons / 11 - Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die \ 13 - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards / 14 – The Huntsville Times runs the headline, "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon" \ 17 Israeli Air Force Spitfires intercept a Royal Air Force Short Sunderland when it inadvertently crosses into Israeli airspace, and force it to land at Lod Airport /20 — 1st package holiday air charter, by Vladimir Raitz of Horizon Holidays, from Gatwick Airport to Calvi, Corsica, for camping \ 21 — A tornado tracks across England from Wendover to Blakeney, Norfolk (68 miles (109 km)), the longest ever such track in Britain / 22 - Celal Bayar becomes the 3rd president of Turkey - Adnan Menderes of DP forms the new government of Turkey (19th government) \ 25 – The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic / 26 — Fuel rationing comes to an end after 11 years, marking another stage in the phasing-out of rationing that was introduced in the wake of the WW2 \ 27 - "Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances / 29 – St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
Jan 29, 1949 – Feb 16, 1950 OX Niu Earth / Feb 17, 1950 – Feb 5, 1951 Tiger Yang Metal...
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Project MKUltra is the code name of a U.S. government covert research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans (mind control) through the CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division. The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and officially halted in 1973.. MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD)..
In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to project MKUltra, which led to Senate hearings later that same year. In July 2001 some surviving information regarding MKUltra was officially declassified...
A precursor of the MKUltra program began in 1945 when the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip. The program recruited former Nazi scientists, some of whom studied torture and brainwashing..Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip. These projects included Project CHATTER (established 1947), and Project BLUEBIRD (established 1950), which was renamed Project ARTICHOKE in 1951. Their purpose was to study mind control, interrogation, behavior modification and related topics...
In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels in San Francisco, California to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and study.. In other experiments where people were given LSD without their knowledge, they were interrogated under bright lights with doctors in the background taking notes. The subjects were told that their "trips" would be extended indefinitely if they refused to reveal their secrets. The people being interrogated this way were CIA employees, U. S. military personnel, and agents suspected of working for the other side in the Cold War. Long-term debilitation and several deaths resulted from this.. Heroin addicts were bribed into taking LSD with offers of more heroin...Some subjects' participation was consensual, and in these cases they appeared to be singled out for even more extreme experiments. In one case, 7 volunteers in Kentucky were given LSD for 77 consecutive days...
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February 21, 1950 - Sun storm disrupts radio cable service..New York Times, February 21, 1950 p. 5...
The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" was a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated solely by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 was the largest mass-produced piston engine aircraft ever made. It had the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built (230 ft, 70.1 m), although there have been larger military transports. The B-36 was the first bomber capable of delivering any of the nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal from inside its two bomb bays without aircraft modifications. With a range greater than 9,700 km (6,000 mi) and a maximum payload of 33,000 kg (73,000 lb), the B-36 was the world's first manned bomber with an unrefueled intercontinental range. Until it was replaced by the jet powered Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, which first became operational in 1955, the B-36 was the primary nuclear weapons delivery vehicle of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), and the B-36 set the standard for range and payload for subsequent U.S. intercontinental bombers.
February 13..British Columbia B-36 crash - The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mark 4 nuclear bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produces the world's first Broken Arrow \ 21 – Cunard liner RMS Aquitania arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36 year career...
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Flamenco Guitar Master Vicente Gomez ..was born in Madrid where he leant his trade in a tavern in the red light district of Madrid that was owned by his father. He worked there until he was 25 when he visited Russia. He was involved in politics and opposed to General Franco.. He visited Cuba and Mexico and he was discovered whilst making A show in Mexico...
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Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost...Ra leased - 29 April 1951 (USA) ...
April 1 – Female suffrage begins in Greece \ 3 - Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford / 7 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak \ 11 - U.S. President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands - After its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, the Stone of Scone resurfaces on the altar of Arbroath Abbey / 12 - Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day \ 17 - The submarine HMS Affray lost at sea with 75 crew missing - She was 1 of 16 submarines of her class which were originally designed for use in the Pacific Ocean against Japan - Another strange event was the wife of a skipper of one of Affray's sister submarines claiming to have seen a ghost in a dripping wet submarine officer's uniform telling her the location of the sunken sub- interestingly she recognised him as an officer who had died during the 2nd World War, not a crew member of Affray - The Peak District is established as the 1st of the national parks of England and Wales / 18 – The Treaty of Paris (1951) is adopted, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community - "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden \ 19 - 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45 / 20 - US performs nuclear test \21 – The National Olympic Committee of the Soviet Union is formed. The USSR first participates in the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, in 1952 /24 – In Yokohama, Japan a fire on a train kills more than 100 \ 26 - Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum /27 - Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia \28 – Robert Menzies' Liberal Party government in Australia is re-elected for a 2nd term– Newcastle United win the FA Cup for the 4th time win a 2–0 win over Blackpool at Wembley Stadium..
To test the feasibility of construction techniques a project site called "Camp Century" was started, located at an elevation of 6,600 feet (2,000 m) in northwestern Greenland, 150 miles (240 km) from the US Thule Air Base. The American radar and air base at Thule had been in active use since 1951...
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This Is Tomorrow was a seminal art exhibition in August 1956 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, facilitated by curator Bryan Robertson. The core of the exhibition was the ICA Independent Group..The Pop art poster Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, was designed by Hamilton for Group 2. A second poster, comprising intersecting arrows and swirls was designed by McHale and taken to the silk screen stage by Hamilton...
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When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love When a former employee comes back into his life..Ra-Leased February 1956 (USA) ...
11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union after being missing for 5 years \ 14–26 – 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union / 16 – Only a little more than 4 months after the release of the 70mm version of Oklahoma!, the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, is released in CinemaScope 55. MacRae and Jones had previously starred in Oklahoma! Carousel, intended for showing in 55mm, ends up being shown only in 35mm \ 23 – Norma Jean Mortenson legally changes her name to Marilyn Monroe – A fire at Eastwood Mills, Keighley, West Yorkshire, kills 8 employees / 24 – Doris Day records her most famous song: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be). It is from Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which Day co-stars with James Stewart \ 25 – Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a "cult of personality"...
Fuchs' dystrophy also known as Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy, is a slowly progressing corneal dystrophy that usually affects both eyes and is slightly more common in women than in men. Although doctors can often see early signs of Fuchs' dystrophy in people in their 30s and 40s, the disease rarely affects vision until people reach their 50s and 60s..The cornea is the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.. The cornea, with the anterior chamber and lens, refracts light, with the cornea accounting for approximately 2-3rds of the eye's total optical power...Medical terms related to the cornea often start with the prefix "kerat-" from the Greek word κέρας, horn...Suboptimal vision caused by corneal dystrophy usually requires surgical intervention in the form of corneal transplantation...The graft is taken from a recently deceased individual with no known diseases or other factors that may affect the viability of the donated tissue or the health of the recipient...
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"Heartbreak Hotel" is a song recorded by American rock and roll musician Elvis Presley. It was released as a single on January 27, 1956, Presley's first on his new record label RCA Victor...
January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan – Possession of heroin becomes fully criminalised- KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) & 7 in Odessa, TX (CBS) begin broadcasting- A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people \ 3 - By popular demand, Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin, is restaged live by Producers' Showcase on NBC-TV - Columbia Records first releases Glenn Gould's solo piano recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations / 8 – Operation Auca: 5 U.S. missionaries are killed for trespassing by the Waodani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them \ 15 - KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting / 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine \ 22 - 30 die in a train crash in L A / 24 – Plans are announced for the construction of thousands of new homes in the Barbican area of London, devastated by the Luftwaffe during the 2nd World War \ 25–26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4.(211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his 2 quarrelling sons - 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing 10s of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.) / 30- KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) - KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begin broadcasting...
There may be 3 donors, distinguished by the fact that the first 2 are unable to help and so send him on to the next. A common motif, as in Farmer Weathersky, is that one can consult all the beasts, the next all the fish, the third all the birds, and only the last can discover what the hero needs. In other cases, each of the 3 may give the hero or heroine something, but only the 3rd has the information necessary to them...
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The Wilhelm scream is a film and television stock sound effect that has been used in more than 200 movies, beginning in 1951 for the film Distant Drums, the sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a western in which the character is shot with an arrow..Ra Leased 11 July 1953 (USA)...
July 3 – 1st ascent of Nanga Parbat in the Pakistan Himalayas, the world's 9th highest mountain, is made by Austrian climber Hermann Buhl alone \ 4 – Strikes and riots hit coal mining regions in Poland / 7 - Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador \ 8 - US stops aid to Persia / 9 - 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC) \ 14 - Communist offensive in Korea /15 – John Christie is hanged at Pentonville Prison, where a crowd of some 200 people stand to wait for the notice of X-ecution to be posted \ 18 – The Quatermass Experiment, first of the Quatermass science-fiction serials by Nigel Kneale, begins its run on BBC Tele-vision / 19 - WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting \ 20 - USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations /20 – The Good Old Days, filmed at the Leeds City Varieties, begins its 30-year run on BBC Television \ 26 - Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba – Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution –The Short Creek Raid is carried out on a polygynous Mormon sect in Arizona / 27 – Korean War Korean Armistice Agreement: United Nations Command (Korea) (United States), People's Republic of China, North Korea sign an armistice agreement at Panmunjom and the north remains communist while the south remains capitalist - 1st insulin isolated by F Banting & C Best in Toronto - North Korea & UN sign armistice - Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory \ 29 - US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok /31- Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created ...
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December 28, 1959 (Moonday) - In Jersey City, New Jersey, 69 year old Matthew Jaksch was robbed by 2 men as he was going to the bank.. Taken in the robbery were 2 relics from the Crucifixion, which had been given to Jaksch's Austrian ancestors by Pope Benedict XIV: a piece of a thorn from the Crown of Thorns ($40,000) and a splinter from the Cross ($30,000) \ Associated-Rediffusion 1st airs the children's television series Ivor the Engine, made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms in stop motion animation using cardboard cut-outs / Tom Landry, defensive coach for the Giants, was signed as the new coach of the Dallas Rangers, which were seeking admission as the NFL's 13th team. Landry coached the renamed Dallas Cowboys for 29 seasons \ The city of Lawndale, California, was incorporated \ Died: Ante Pavelić, 70, puppet ruler of Nazi state of Croatia 1941–45; Walther Buhle, 65 German general; and Karoly Jordan, 88, Hungarian mathematician...
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The story is set in a then-future 1964, in the months following World War III.. The conflict has devastated the northern hemisphere, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout and killing all life. While the bombs were confined to the northern hemisphere, air currents are slowly carrying the fallout south... The only areas still habitable are in the far southern hemisphere, like Australia..The Australian government arranges for its citizens to receive suicide pills and injections, so that they may end things quickly before there is prolonged suffering from the inevitable radiation sickness...
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The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists..20 of the 44 people on board the aircraft died in the crash.. The injured, some of whom were knocked unconscious, were taken to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich where 3 more died, resulting in a total of 23 fatalities with 21 survivors...
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A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised..A total solar eclipse occurred on October 2, 1959..Totality began over Boston, Massachusetts at sunrise. Viewing the eclipse was raining out, but it was reported that the brightening of the sky after the eclipse was a startling and impressive sight.. Ra -Pillowed 7 October 1959 (USA) ...
Oct 1 – The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is celebrated with pomp across the country \ 2 – Rod Serling's classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS / 7 – The U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 sends back the first ever photos of the far side of the Moon \ 12 – At the national APRA Congress in Peru, a group of leftist radicals is expelled from the party; they later form APRA Rebelder – Large-scale diamond robbery in London / 13 – The United States launches Explorer 7 \ 17 - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse \ 19 - William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC / 21 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) opens to the public / 23 - Chinese troops move into India 17 die \ 26 - Earth's people see the other side of the Moon for the first time, as photographs from the Lunik 3 satellite were released by the Soviet Union / 27 - Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico \ 28 - Buffalo Bills enter AFL 31 – Riots break out in the Belgian Congo November – The nuclear Dounreay Fast Reactor comes on line \ 2 – The 1st section of the M1 motorway is opened between Watford and Rugby. .It is set to be extended over the next few years, southwards to Edgware and northwards to Leeds...
Pillow talk is the relaxed, intimate conversation that often occurs between 2 sexual partners after the act of coitus, usually accompanied by cuddling, caresses, and other physical intimacy.. It is associated with honesty, sexual afterglow, and bonding, and is distinguished from dirty talk which usually forms part of foreplay..Pillow talk, more broadly may also refer to conversations between parties that may be of a more casual and flirting nature, and are not Necessarily engaged in a physical relationship...
The word pillow comes from Middle English pilwe, from Old English pyle (akin to Old High German pfuliwi) and from Latin pulvinus. The first known use of the word pillow was before 12th century..Pill American slang for recreationally used prescription drugs, particularly when used in plural as in "popping pills"...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
"Peggy Sue" is a rock and roll song written by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, and Norman Petty, and originally performed, Ra- corded and Ra - leased as a single by Buddy Holly in early July of 1957...
July - The International Geophysical Year begins - The University of Waterloo is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada \ 2 - 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes / 6 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, 3 years before forming the Beatles - Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast \ 9 – Elvis Presley's Loving You opens in theaters - Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced- The discovery of element 102 was first announced by physicists at the Nobel Institute in Sweden and was first correctly identified in 1966 by scientists at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Soviet Union / 11 – His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan becomes the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in his will \ 14 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world - Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 27 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site / 16 – United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record \ 19 - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada- US performs nuclear Test / 24 - US performs nuclear Test causes cancer \ 25 – Tunisia becomes a republic, with Habib Bourguiba its first president - US performs cancer nuclear Test / 28 - The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khruschev Thaw, kicks off in Moscow - Heavy rains and mudslides at Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992 - A strong earthquake shakes Mexico City and Mexican port city Acapulco \ 29 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established...
Following a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2, 1959, Holly chartered a small airplane to take him to the next stop on the tour. Holly, Valens, Richardson and the pilot Roger Peterson were killed en route to Moorhead, Minnesota, when their plane crashed soon after taking off from nearby "Mason City" in the early morning hours of February 3...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
"Diana" is a song written and made famous by Paul Anka in 1957, recorded in May 1957 at Don Costa studio in New York.. Reportedly inspired by a high school friend of Anka's named Diana Ayoub, in an interview with NPR's Terry Gross in 2005, he stated that it was inspired by a girl at his church who he hardly knew...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The EPA (environmental protection agency) and OSHA took air samples in the days following September 11th, they reported that they found no excessive levels of asbestos contrary to other findings....
With the anniversary of September 11th literally just around the corner, unanswered questions still remain for families who lost loved ones during the tragic event, as well as from families...
In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the United States Navy's use of sonar in submarine detection training exercises off...
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