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Cinderella premiered and quickly became the highest grossing movie of the year. -
Neither side actually won the Korean War. In fact, the war goes on to this day, since the combatants never signed a peace treaty.
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On october 2nd, the first peanut comic strip debuted. -
Remington Rand delivered its first computer, UNIVAC I, to the U.S. Census Bureau. It weighed 16,000 pounds, used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per second. -
RCA broadcasts the first colour TV episode on June 25. This was the beginning of a huge advancements for technology. -
The double helix, the twisted-ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), by James Watson and Francis Crick marked a milestone in the history of science -
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - 1953 Everest. Edmund Hillary (left) and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the 29,035-foot summit -
Rosa Parks sat in the reserved section for white people. She refused to give up her seat. Making this day a monumental day for equality -
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was a countrywide revolution against the Stalinist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR.
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USSR Launches Sputnik. On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth