Washington D.C. - Dwight D. Eisenhower was President
World
Series - New York (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 2
Academy Awards - From Here to Eternity won Best Picture
Television - I Love Lucy was the #1 show
March: Josef Stalin, premier of the U.S.S.R., dies.
March:
The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare is created
.
April: Francis Crick and James Watson discover
the structure (double helix) and function of DNA.
May: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest.
May: Thirteen women, the first ever admitted, graduate from Harvard
Law School.
June: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed as Soviet spies.
July: Armistice is signed with North Korea; 38th parallel established.
August: The Soviet Union announces that it has detonated a hydrogen
bomb.
September: Sen. John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier.
September: The Allies form West Germany as an independent state.