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1950 – NBC airs Broadway Open House a late-night comedy, variety, talk show through 1951. Hosted by Morey Amsterdam and Jerry Lester and Dagmar, it serves as the prototype for The Tonight Show; 1950 – Failed assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationals on President Harry S. Truman while he was living at Blair House.
An American family watching television together in 1958. The 1950s are known as the Golden Age of Television by some people. Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts.
The novel Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, published in 1961, is concerned with mid-1950s life and culture. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, though not published until 1963, features a woman's struggle living in 1950s American culture. Agatha Christie was also at a stage where she published at an average rate of one book every year.
The 1950s staple was all over the fall runways. Is it a sign we’re going back in time, or heading forward?
“Make American Great Again” is his game show segment for turning back our societal clock to 1950’s when only white Christian “hetero” males had rights. Women and Blacks had no say in ...
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II , aided by the post-World War II economic expansion .
Billy Joe DuPree, American football tight end; Franco Harris, American football running back (d. 2022) [7] Mark Pinter, actor; March 10 – Catherine Pugh, Democratic politician and mayor of Baltimore [8] March 11 – Steven Nock, researcher, author, and university professor (d. 2008) [9] March 15 Paul Gerken, tennis player
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