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	There are 47,200,000 TV sets in use in 39,500,000 homes.
	General Foods Corp. introduces TANG breakfast beverage crystals.
	Barry Gordy, Jr. invests $700 to found "Motown Records." And the rest, as they say... is history.
	Velcro is patented by George de Mestral of Switzerland.
	Greyhound inaugurates the "It's such a comfort to take the bus and leave the driving to us" ad campaign.
	The 13-year-old Bobby Fisher becomes a chess champion.
	Major John Glenn, Jr. sets an air speed record by traveling from California to New York in a jet in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds.
	It's here! The Pink Flamingo! Read the story!
	Houston, we have a problem...Sputnik is launched.
	AFL-CIO votes to expel the Teamsters, which was readmitted in October 1987.
	On the Air! You'd find 2,974 AM radio, 530 FM radio and 471 TV Stations.
	Music Man, starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway. Buy the Movie on DVD or Buy the Movie Cast on CD.
	West Side Story, the energetic combination of talents, Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Jerome Robbins (choreography) opens on Broadway. Buy the Movie on DVD or Buy the Movie Cast on CD.
	Britian becomes the 3rd nation to join the "nuclear club" with the explosion of an atomic weapon.
	Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain
	More news from Merry Ole England. Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower at the White House. Talk about your fun crowd...
	Ed Gein's killing and mutilation spree is over as he is arrested. Gein was the inspiration for Norman Bates in Psycho and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs. Read more on Ed Gein.
	Eveready produces "AA" size alkaline batteries for use in "personal transistor radios."
	And the winner is...Oscar stuff.
	B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
	Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK as does Malayasia (formerly Malaya).
	Jackie Robinson, perhaps the finest athelete of the century, announced his retirement from baseball
	In Sports...
	Elizabeth Taylor's 2nd divorce (from Michael Wilding) and 3rd marriage (to Mike Todd) Can you recall all her marriages?
	Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas.
	Please Don't Eat the Daises by Jean Kerr is a book smash!
	James Hoffa gains control of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
	The Frisbee is renamed and nationally marketed!
	One thousand computers are sold. And not one of them had a Windows operating system. Imagine that.
	Chairman Mao of China implements his "Great Leap Forward" which places 1 million Chinese in communes.
	On September 4, the last game is played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as the Dodgers prepare to move to LA. On February 23 of 1960, they tear the stadium down. Days that will live in infamy! for more sports or 1957 in sports
	Wagon Train debuts on TV. The Wagon Train Website. Also, Have Gun Will Travel, Tales of Wells Fargo and Maverick. The Fifties Web Western Section.

	The National Geographic announces that it has found the resting place of the H.M.S. Bounty.
	American Bandstand goes national with Dick Clark as host. The Fifties Web American Bandstand Pages.
	Senator Joseph McCarthy dies of cirrhosis of the liver. Good riddance.
	The first large scale American nucleur power plant goes into operation in Shippensport, PA and will service Pittsburgh.
	The average American production worker is now making $82.32 a week.
	5,000 new products wil hit the supermarket shelves, including YES YES YES - frozen pizza.
	This is the EDSEL!
	Prime commercial paper (4 to 6 mos) was at 3.81%. In New York City a commercial loan ran 4.47%
	At a Miami radio station, new employee Lawrence Harvey Zeiger abruptly adopts a stage name - Larry King - and begins broadcasting.
	NYC ends trolley car service
	Pulitzer prize awarded to John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage.
	Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
	The publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road introduces the words "beat" and "beatnik" into the American popular consciousness and gives a name to a generation. Buy the book!
	Americans Clarence W. Lillehie and Earl Bakk invent the internal pacemaker.
	Theodore Geisel writes Cat in the Hat as Dr. Seuss! Buy:The Cat In The Hat on DVD
	The Little Rock Nine require federal intervention. Other events from Civil Rights in '57.
	There is a 51.7% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964
	I can't believe it isn't...Margarine sales take the lead over butter.
	Williams-Sonoma opens in San Francisco. Alright!
	Better Homes & Gardens prints its first microwave-cooking article.
	American will import 258,343 passenger cars.
	Proctor and Gamble acquired Charmin Paper Mills, a regional manufacturer of toilet tissue, towels and napkins. Dick Wilson, aka Mr. Whipple was a mere 41 years old. P&G also introduces Zest Soap.
	There are 38,702 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 70 fatalities.
	Unemployment is 4.3%
	U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $460.7 billion

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