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Bikinis were introduced!
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The first polaroid camera was invented!
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Israel was founded
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The first non-stop flight around the world!
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Ralph Schneider invented the first credit card called Diners!
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The first colored TV program was called "Premire." But, most people couldn't watch it on their black and white televisions.
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South Africans had to start carrying IDs around identifying their race.
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She became queen at age 25 after her father died of lung cancer in his sleep.
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The first Diet Soda was sold!
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From December 5th to December 9th, smog settled on London. The smog was proved to be deadly 12,000 people died during and after the smog.
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Agatha Christie published After The Funeral.
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Edmund Hilary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay were the first to climb Mount Everest!
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When Hugh Hefner was 27 years old, he published his first Playboy magazine.
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They started reporting that cigarettes DO cause cancer.
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McDonald's Corporation was founded!
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Disneyland opened!
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Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white person!
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The first TV remote was invented.
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Velcro was introduced in 1956!
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Fortran was computer language (translate).
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Dr. Suess published The Cat in the Hat!
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Richard Knerr & Arthur Melin invented the hola hoop!
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Gordan Gould invented the laser!
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Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce invented the microchip!
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The Barbie Doll was invented in 1959!
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The birth-control pill was approved by the FDA
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