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by Swina Allen
COVERSTORY
1950
Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins
- Korean War begins when North Korean forces invade South Korea
- World pop. est. at 2.4 billion
- George Bernard Shaw dies
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1951
- Julius and Ethel Rosenburg convicted of espionage and transmitting nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union
- Electricity from Atomic Power
1952
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor)
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated
The first airplane lands at the geographic North Pole.
3 O'Clock Blues - B.B. KING
- Korean War ends
- Dwight D Eisenhower president of US
- Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are the first people to climb Mt. Everest
(MAMA) HE TREATS YOUR DAUGHTER MEAN - Ruth Brown
1953