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What Happened During Our Senior Year?
The following time line was submitted by Max Pozin. It makes you realize the passage of time seeing birth dates of people you recognize today.
SEPTEMBER 1958!
05 - Doctor Zhivago published in the USA
13 - Wilfred Benitez boxer born
15 - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark, NJ)
16 - Jennifer Tilly actress born
20 - Martin Luther King Jr. stabbed in chest by deranged black woman in NYC
21 - First airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas TX
27 - Shaun Cassidy actor born
OCTOBER 1958!
01 - Inauguration of NASA
09 - Pope Pius XII Dies
09 - Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 to win 55th Worlf Series
10 - Tanya Tucker singer born
15 - John Hamilton actor (Perry White - Superman)
16 - Tim Robbins actor born
18 - Jean - Claude Van Damme actor, kick boxer born
26 - Pan Am flies first transatlantic jet trip - NY to Paris
28 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking the name John XXII
NOVEMBER 1958!
15 - Tyrone Power actor, dies of a heart attack at 44
21 - Mel Ott NY Giant Baseball star (1926 - 1947), dies at 49
22 - Jamie Lee Curtis actress born
27 - USSR abrogates allied wartime agreements on control of Germany
30 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched, (Dewey)
DECEMBER 1958!
01 - Charlene Tilton actress born
02 - Pete Dawkins Army back wins Heisman Trophy
10 - 1st domestic passenger jet flight - National 707 flew 111
13 - Tim Moore actor (Kingfish - Amos & Andy) dies at 70
16 - Bart Oates NFL center (NY Giants) born
18 - 1st. Voice from space: recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower
23 - Denise McConnell Playboy playmate (March 1979) born
25 - Ricky Henderson baseball player born
29 - Baltimore Colts Beat NY Giants 23 - 17 in NFL championship game
JANUARY 1959!
01 - Fidel Castro leads Cuba to victory as Batista flees to Dominican Republic
02 - First spacecraft to orbit the sun launched (USSR)
03 - Alaska admitted as 49th state
05 - Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"
07 - US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban Government
21 - Cecil Blount De Mille Producer dies
22 - Linda Blair actress born
22 - USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
23 - Tyrone Power Jr. born
25 - 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (American Airlines, LA to NY for $301)
FEBRUARY 1959!
03 - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper die in a plane crash
04 - Lawrence Taylor football player NY Giants born
06 - 1st US successful Titan intercontinental ballistic missile
13 - Barbie doll goes on sale
16 - Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba
16 - John McEnroe tennis player born
17 - Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines swimmer born
22 - 1st Daytona 500 - auto race - Lee Petty wins
MARCH 1959!
03 - 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched
03 - Lou Costello comedian (Abbott & Costello) dies at 52
04 - US Pioneer 4 misses moon and becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
06 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer 4, 400,000 miles)
06 - Tom Arnold comedian born
12 - House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
17 - Dali Lama flees Tibet for India
18 - President Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
24 - Mathew Modine actor born
APRIL 1959!
07 - Radar 1st bounced off Sun
09 - Boston Celtics win 8th consecutive NBA championship (record)
09 - Frank Lloyd Wright architect dies at 89
09 - NASA names first 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
15 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
18 - Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley cup
21 - Alf Dean using a rod and reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark
27 - Sheena Easton singer born
MAY 1959!
04 - Randy Travis country singer born
07 - Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers Sandy Koufax beat the
Yankees in exhibition
11 - Elvis Presleys first entry on UK charts (Heartbreak Hotel)
20 - Bronson Pinchot actor born
24 - Jonh Foster Dulles US Secretary of State dies at 71
28 - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter missile, 1st animals
retrieved
JUNE 1959!
03 - 1st. US Air Force Academy graduation
09 - 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington)
11 - Postmaster General bans D. H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterly's Lover
12 - Jenilee Harrison actress born
16 - George Reeves actor (Superman) dies from self - inflicted gun shot
18 - 1st telecast from England to US
18 - Ethel Barrymore actress dies at 79
18 - Miracously Max Pozin graduates from Levittown Memorial High School
22 - Most strikeouts in a game Sandy Koufax over the Phillies (22)
26 - Ingemar Johansson defeats Floyd Patterson for the Heavy Weight championship
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