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Events• 6.75 Richter scale earthquake in

Ecuador kills 6,000 and destroys 50 towns

• Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb

• North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-tion (NATO) established

• Federal Republic of Germany

officially founded • Indonesia gains its independence

from Netherlands• Berlin Airlift officially comes to

an end on May 12th• The Communist People’s Repub-

lic of China is proclaimed under Mao Tse Tung

• Republic of China / Taiwan on the island of Formosa comes into be-ing following the defeat by Mao Tse Tung

• The Geneva Convention is agreed providing an agreement on the treatment of prisoners

• RCA perfects a system for broad-casting color television

• First Polaroid Camera sold for $89.95

• President Harry S. Truman au-thorizes $16 million in aid for Pales-tinian refugees

• The Emmy Awards first pre-sented

• First Volkswagen Beetle The Peoples car sold in U.S.

• The first car with a Porsche badge is shown at the International Automobile Show in Geneva (Porsche 356)

• De-Havilland Comet first com-mercial passenger jet airliner test flight

• Apartheid made official policy of National party in South Africa

• Newfoundland Joins Canada Confederation

• NBA National Basketball Asso-ciation forms

Inventions• The first automatic street lights

are installed in New Milford, Con-necticut

• 45 rpm records• The world’s first commercially

available computer, The Ferranti Mark 1, released

“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” – Harry S. Truman

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remember when . . .

Average cost of new house $7,450Average wages per year $2,950Cost of a gallon of gas 17¢Average cost of a new car $1,420Minimum hourly wage 70¢/hourBacon per pound 50¢ Dobbs hat $8.50 Kitchen table and chairs $100

Popular Culture• George Orwell’s book “Nineteen

Eighty-Four” is published• “’A’ Your Adorable” by Perry

Como• “Mule Train” by Frankie laine• “Twelve O’Clock High”• Frank Sinatra stars in “On The

Town” with Gene Kelly• Rodgers and Hammerstein debut

the musical “South Pacific” on Broad-way

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