The Book of Me Written By You~Prompt 12~The Year I Was Born
I am participating in Julie Goucher's activity:
This week’s prompt ~ Prompt 12 ~ The Year I was Born
What happened....
Historical - international, national and local
Family events
Films
Music
Books
Television
Historical - international, national and local
Family events
Films
Music
Books
Television
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The first thing that comes to my mind about the year I was born is that it was also the year Disneyland opened!
Here are a few more things happened that year ~ Can you guess what year it was?
Here are a few more things happened that year ~ Can you guess what year it was?
JANUARY
January 2nd ~ Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is
assassinated
January 17 ~ Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test
assassinated
January 17 ~ Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test
January 19th ~ 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV
(Eisenhower)
January 19th ~ "Scrabble" debuts on board game
market
January 20th ~ 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton
Connecticut
January 22nd ~ Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen
forms
January 25 ~ US and Panama sign canal treaty
FEBRUARY
(Eisenhower)
January 19th ~ "Scrabble" debuts on board game
market
January 20th ~ 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton
Connecticut
January 22nd ~ Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen
forms
January 25 ~ US and Panama sign canal treaty
FEBRUARY
February 2nd ~ 1st presidential news conference on network TV-
Eisenhower on ABC
February 9th ~ US federations of trade unions merge
into AFL/CIO
February 12th ~ President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to
SouthVietnam
SouthVietnam
February 12th ~ McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1
and stays #1 for 10 weeks
February 15th ~ 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
February 26th ~ "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater
NYC after 149 performances
NYC after 149 performances
MARCH
March 3rd ~ Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
March 7th ~ 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy,
Danny Thomas and Loretta Young
March 7th ~ Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
March 15th ~ US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
March 16th ~ President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic
weapons in case of war
March 24th ~ 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
March 24th ~ Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
opens for 694 performances
March 26th ~ "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the
#1 record in US
March 27th ~ Steve McQueen makes his network TV
debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
March 30th ~ 27th Academy Awards - "On the
Waterfront," Brando and Grace Kelly win
March 31st ~ US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes
Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan
Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
APRIL
April 5th ~ Winston Churchill resigns as British PM,
Anthony Eden succeeds him
April 6th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test
Site
April 9th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test
Site
April 10th ~ Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio
vaccine
April 12th ~ Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; 4
billion dimes marched
April 14th ~ Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to
wear the Yankee uniform
April 15th ~ Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast
food restaurants (Illinois)
April 15th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test
Site
April 18th ~ 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street
signals installed
April 19th ~ 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
April 22nd ~ Congress orders all US coins bear motto
"In God We Trust"
April 29th ~ G Gronchi elected president of Italy
April 30th ~ West German unions protest for 40-hour
work week and more wages
MAY
May 2nd ~ Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams
for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
May 5th ~ "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater
NYC for 1022 performances
May 5th ~ Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
May 5th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada test
Site
May 6th ~ West Germany joins NATO
May 7th ~ 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8
May 7th ~ USSR signs peace treaty with France and
Great-Britain
May 13th ~ Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of
at least 463'
May 14th ~ US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
May 15th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 15th ~ Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, US and USSR
restores Austria's independence
May 16th ~ Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9
for heavyweight boxing title
May 21st ~ 1st transcontinental round-trip solo
flight-sunrise to sunset
May 22nd ~ Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix
(aged 55) finishes 6th
May 25th ~ Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas and most of Blackwell Oklahoma
May 27th ~ Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
JUNE
June 4th ~ "Mickey Rooney Show," TV comedy last airs on NBC
June 5th ~ NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago
Billy Pierce
June 6th ~ Bill Haley and The Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
June 7th ~ "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV
June 7th ~ 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
June 8th ~ Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
June 9th ~ 100°F - Hottest day in Seattle Washington
June 10th ~ 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
June 11th ~ 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
June 11th ~ 87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in
2:29
June 11th ~ Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators (race
continues)
June 12th ~ Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
June 15th ~ The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual
"Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the
USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
June 19th ~ Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
June 23rd ~ Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" released
June 24th ~ Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
June 27th ~ 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
June 30th ~ "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV
JULY
July 2nd ~ "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
July 9th ~ Bill Haley and The Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart
July 9th ~ First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic
Morrow)
July 11th ~ Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
July 12th ~ 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at
County Stad, Milw
July 17th ~ Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
July 17th ~ Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
July 17th ~ Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim,
California.
July 18th ~ 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold
commercially
July 29th ~ USSR performs nuclear Test
AUGUST
August 2nd ~ USSR performs nuclear test
August 3rd ~ Automobile Association of America ends support of
auto racing
August 3rd ~ Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
August 4th ~ Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of
CIA headquarters
August 7th ~ Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor
to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
August 12th ~ Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents
to $1 an hour
August 19th ~ Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion dollars damage storm (N.E. US)
August 20th ~ 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA
Hanes, Palmdale Ca
August 26th ~ 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
August 27th ~ "Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
August 31st ~ 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
August 31st ~ 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Illinois
SEPTEMBER
September 5th ~ Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician
September 9th ~ Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
September 10th ~ "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
September 18th ~ Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets
Field (ties Joe Adcock)
September 20th ~ Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law
(Pirates) in both ends of DH
September 20th ~ Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a
season
September 21st ~ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 for
heavyweight boxing title
September 24th ~ President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
September 26th ~ NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since
1929
September 28th ~ 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-
TV (Yanks beat Dodgers)
September 30 ~ James Dean died in a car accident in California.
OCTOBER
October 1st ~ "Honeymooners" premieres
October 2nd ~ "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres
October 3rd ~ "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good
Morning, Captain!
October 3rd ~ "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
October 8th ~ World's most powerful aircraft carrier, USS
Saratoga, launched
October 17th ~ Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel
October 20th ~ Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)
October 25th ~ Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
NOVEMBER
November 5th ~ Date returned to in "Back to the Future" by Marty McFly
November 6th ~ USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
November 7th ~ Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in
public recreational areas
November 9th ~ UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid
politics
November 16th ~ 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph)
(Donald Campbell)
November 16th ~ Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with
"Cry Cry Cry"
November 18th ~ Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered
flight
November 22nd ~ USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
November 22nd ~ RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck
driver from Tupelo Miss
November 25th ~ Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between US states
DECEMBER
December 1st ~ Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move
to the back of bus
December 5th ~ AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as
president
December 5th ~ Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery
Alabama by Rosa Park
December 6th ~ NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000
Question" on boxing
December 8th ~ Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd
MVP Award
December 19th ~ Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
December 29th ~ Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never
Know" at age 13
December 31st ~ The General Motors Corporation becomes the
first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year.
Popular Books
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- Tennessee Williams
Moonraker (James Bond #3)-
Ian Fleming
Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot #30)- Agatha Christie
The year was…1955
March 3rd ~ Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
March 7th ~ 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy,
Danny Thomas and Loretta Young
March 7th ~ Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
March 15th ~ US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
March 16th ~ President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic
weapons in case of war
March 24th ~ 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
March 24th ~ Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
opens for 694 performances
March 26th ~ "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the
#1 record in US
March 27th ~ Steve McQueen makes his network TV
debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
March 30th ~ 27th Academy Awards - "On the
Waterfront," Brando and Grace Kelly win
March 31st ~ US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes
Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan
Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
APRIL
April 5th ~ Winston Churchill resigns as British PM,
Anthony Eden succeeds him
April 6th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test
Site
April 9th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test
Site
April 10th ~ Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio
vaccine
April 12th ~ Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; 4
billion dimes marched
April 14th ~ Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to
wear the Yankee uniform
April 15th ~ Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast
food restaurants (Illinois)
April 15th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test
Site
April 18th ~ 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street
signals installed
April 19th ~ 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
April 22nd ~ Congress orders all US coins bear motto
"In God We Trust"
April 29th ~ G Gronchi elected president of Italy
April 30th ~ West German unions protest for 40-hour
work week and more wages
MAY
May 2nd ~ Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams
for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
May 5th ~ "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater
NYC for 1022 performances
May 5th ~ Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
May 5th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada test
Site
May 6th ~ West Germany joins NATO
May 7th ~ 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8
May 7th ~ USSR signs peace treaty with France and
Great-Britain
May 13th ~ Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of
at least 463'
May 14th ~ US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
May 15th ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 15th ~ Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, US and USSR
restores Austria's independence
May 16th ~ Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9
for heavyweight boxing title
May 21st ~ 1st transcontinental round-trip solo
flight-sunrise to sunset
May 22nd ~ Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix
(aged 55) finishes 6th
May 25th ~ Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas and most of Blackwell Oklahoma
May 27th ~ Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
JUNE
June 4th ~ "Mickey Rooney Show," TV comedy last airs on NBC
June 5th ~ NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago
Billy Pierce
June 6th ~ Bill Haley and The Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
June 7th ~ "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV
June 7th ~ 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
June 8th ~ Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
June 9th ~ 100°F - Hottest day in Seattle Washington
June 10th ~ 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
June 11th ~ 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
June 11th ~ 87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in
2:29
June 11th ~ Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators (race
continues)
June 12th ~ Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
June 15th ~ The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual
"Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the
USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
June 19th ~ Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
June 23rd ~ Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" released
June 24th ~ Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
June 27th ~ 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
June 30th ~ "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV
JULY
July 2nd ~ "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
July 9th ~ Bill Haley and The Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart
July 9th ~ First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic
Morrow)
July 11th ~ Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
July 12th ~ 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at
County Stad, Milw
July 17th ~ Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
July 17th ~ Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
July 17th ~ Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim,
California.
July 18th ~ 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold
commercially
July 29th ~ USSR performs nuclear Test
AUGUST
August 2nd ~ USSR performs nuclear test
August 3rd ~ Automobile Association of America ends support of
auto racing
August 3rd ~ Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
August 4th ~ Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of
CIA headquarters
August 7th ~ Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor
to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
August 12th ~ Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents
to $1 an hour
August 19th ~ Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion dollars damage storm (N.E. US)
August 20th ~ 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA
Hanes, Palmdale Ca
August 26th ~ 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
August 27th ~ "Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
August 31st ~ 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
August 31st ~ 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Illinois
SEPTEMBER
September 5th ~ Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician
September 9th ~ Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run
September 9th ~ Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
September 10th ~ "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
September 18th ~ Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets
Field (ties Joe Adcock)
September 20th ~ Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law
(Pirates) in both ends of DH
September 20th ~ Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a
season
September 21st ~ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 for
heavyweight boxing title
September 24th ~ President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
September 26th ~ NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since
1929
September 28th ~ 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-
TV (Yanks beat Dodgers)
September 30 ~ James Dean died in a car accident in California.
OCTOBER
October 1st ~ "Honeymooners" premieres
October 2nd ~ "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres
October 3rd ~ "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good
Morning, Captain!
October 3rd ~ "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
October 8th ~ World's most powerful aircraft carrier, USS
Saratoga, launched
October 17th ~ Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel
October 20th ~ Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)
October 25th ~ Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
NOVEMBER
November 5th ~ Date returned to in "Back to the Future" by Marty McFly
November 6th ~ USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
November 7th ~ Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in
public recreational areas
November 9th ~ UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid
politics
November 16th ~ 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph)
(Donald Campbell)
November 16th ~ Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with
"Cry Cry Cry"
November 18th ~ Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered
flight
November 22nd ~ USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
November 22nd ~ RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck
driver from Tupelo Miss
November 25th ~ Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between US states
DECEMBER
December 1st ~ Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move
to the back of bus
December 5th ~ AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as
president
December 5th ~ Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery
Alabama by Rosa Park
December 6th ~ NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000
Question" on boxing
December 8th ~ Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd
MVP Award
December 19th ~ Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
December 29th ~ Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never
Know" at age 13
December 31st ~ The General Motors Corporation becomes the
first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year.
Popular Books
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- Tennessee Williams
Moonraker (James Bond #3)-
Ian Fleming
Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot #30)- Agatha Christie
The year was…1955
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1955! Montgomery Bus Boycott gave it away to me. I knew 1950s with Eisenhower as President but not the year until then. Nice post.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you posted this today. I too was born in 1955...March
ReplyDeleteThings have really changed from our time.
I always find these activities interesting. I should start participating in this, just so I can get back to blogging.
ReplyDeleteGreat job Kristin!
ReplyDeleteThe Path Traveled ~ A birthday year sister! Mine is September. Things have really changed!
ReplyDeleteMavis, I saw you were starting with Prompt 12! Yeah!
ReplyDeleteYour post tells me that you are a few years younger than I.
ReplyDeleteI bet not many Jill!
ReplyDelete