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broadcast on TV live and in color from the 1954 version of the stage musical starring Mary Martin on March 7. Disney released an animated version the previous year.
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is first elected to the United States Senate.
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is in the middle of his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row.
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homicides capture the attention of Americans, killing eleven people before he is caught in a massive manhunt in Douglas, Wyoming.
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is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952.
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is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets in May, spurring worldwide interest in rock and roll music.
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dies on April 18 at the age of 76.
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In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as "the pill", first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin.
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American singer, and song writer
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Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using rock & roll and popular music stars to reach the young adult demographic.
