| 1954 |
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- First nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched. |
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- Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around The Clock" starting Rock and Roll. |
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- Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four minute mile. |
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- West Germany beats Hungary 3–2 to win the 1954 FIFA World Cup. |
| 1955 |
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- Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister due to ill-health. |
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- Cardiff is announced as the capital city of the principality of Wales. |
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- Ruth Ellis is the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder. |
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- The Vietnam War begins between the South & North Vietnam Armies. |
| 1956 |
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- Elvis Presley enters the US charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel." |
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- Summer Olympics in Melbourne and Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. |
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- Jim Laker takes a record 19 test wickets in a match for England against Australia. |
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- The Bell X-2 becomes the first manned aircraft to reach Mach 3. |
| 1957 |
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- Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
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- The Cavern Club opens.. John Lennon & Paul McCartney meet for the first time. |
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- Patrick Moore presents the first episode of The Sky at Night, |
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- The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. |
| 1958 |
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- Seven Manchester Utd players are killed in the Munich air disaster. |
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- Brazil beats Sweden 5–2 to win the 1958 football World Cup final. |
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- Elizabeth II gives her son, Prince Charles, the title of Prince of Wales. |
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- First broadcast of the long-running BBC TV children's programme Blue Peter. |
| 1959 |
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- Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state, followed by Hawaii as the 50th. |
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- The Barbie doll debuts. |
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- The original Mini designed by Sir Alec Issigonis is launched |
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- The first section of the M1 motorway in England opens. |
| 1960 |
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- 1960 Winter Olympics held at the Squaw Valley & Summer games in Rome. |
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- Soviets shoot down U-2 spy plane & pilot Gary Powers is captured |
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- Domino's Pizza is founded. |
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- British TV series Coronation Street premieres, planned as a 13-part drama. |
| 1961 |
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- John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the USA. |
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- The Beatles perform for the first time at the Cavern Club. |
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- Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space. |
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- Wall constructed restricting movement between East and West Berlin. |
| 1962 |
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- Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev first dance together in a Royal ballet. |
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- Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3–1 IN Chile to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup. |
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- Marilyn Monroe dies from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate. |
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- Cuban missile crisis. |
| 1963 |
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- Valentina Tereshkova in Vostok 6 becomes the first woman to go into space. |
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- Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his I Have A Dream speech. |
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- Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury for her part in the Profumo Affair. |
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- Assassination of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. |