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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.
These records would stand unbeaten for over 60 years. August 17 – The trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow. August 18 – United States president Dwight Eisenhower is briefed on the Congo crisis at a meeting with the U.S. National Security Council, and asks whether the U.S. "can't get rid of this guy" (Patrice Lumumba). [2]
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; See also: History of the United States (1945–1964) ... February 26 – Bill Ritter, news anchor; March 2 – Karen Carpenter, pop singer and ...
The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...
Headlines in History 1950: $100,000 fire hits Brewery in Mishawaka; three firemen hurt ... June 17, 2024 at 5:07 AM. Headlines in History. What was making news in our area during this week in ...
1950: The new Clay High School will be a 16-room building and be built south of the current school facing Lily Road. Roy A. Worden is the architect. Headlines in History 1950: Lily Road site of 16 ...
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
1950: Civil Defense is seeking 500 volunteers to staff the filter center which will aid in raid warnings of an atom bomb invasion. 1950: Civil Defense is seeking 500 volunteers to staff the filter ...