What happened in history 10 years before you were born?

1958 (14 feb) Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms

 

Leave it to Beaver debuted.

Here are a few other cool things.

http://www.infoplease.com/year/1957.html

 

NBA Standings At End of Day
Eastern Division
Team


Syracuse Nationals .568 -
New York Knickerbockers .535 2.0
Boston Celtics .500 4.0
Philadelphia Warriors .482 5.0

Western Division
Team

Fort Wayne Pistons .620 -
Minneapolis Lakers .545 4.5
Rochester Royals .413 12.0
Milwaukee Hawks .333 16.5

 

-American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia

-John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in a closely-fought presidential race.

-The first working laser is built by T. H. Maiman (US).

-Echo I, the first communications satellite, is launched.

-Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho terrifies movie-goers and becomes one of the year's most successful films, as well as one of the most memorable psychological thrillers.

 

Ditto

 

First US troops sent to Vietnam.

 

In 1951, Ralph Branca served up a nice fat fastball to Bobby Thomson that enabled the New York Giants to win an improbable National League pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

Marilyn Monroe dies
Johnny Carson Debuts on The Tonight Show.

Why are we doing this 10 years before we were born?

 

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Also the Dodgers sweep their long-time nemesis, the Yankees, in the World Series. Ex-Yankee Bill Skowron has a big series for the Dodgers.

 

I googled 10 years earlier from the day I was born, and found this article....interesting...


The San Antonio News, San Antonio, Texas

'Big Foot' Attack Draws Searchers


Thursday, August 11, 1977





Members of a group searching for the legendary creature "Big foot" will come here Saturday.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has joined the group in investigating a reported creature described by a youth as being 9-feet tall, hairy, and having glowing red eyes.

The 15-year-old youth, Brian Jones, told authorities the creature grabbed him and ripped off his shirt outside a friend's rural home near here Friday night.

The State Bureau of Investigations is studying the boy's shirt, which authorities said had long coarse brown hair attached to it.

Bob Stamps of Oklahoma City, director of a group calling itself Sasquatch Investigation of Mid-America said he has talked with authorities in the eastern Oklahoma town and is convinced "that there is something there - just what, I don't know."

Stamps and other members of his group will search the area Saturday night, after interviewing persons in the area during the day."

"We believe these people (who have reported a strange creature) are telling the truth and we just want to find out what this thing is," said Adair County Civil Defense Director Tobe O'Neal.

© The San Antonio News



http://www.texasbigfoot.com/sa_news1.html

 

That is eight days after I was born.

 

Supreme Court Bans segregation in schools.

Man, segregation seems like ancient history -- but I guess not. There are still lots of people that lived through that -- and lots that suffered the immediate aftermath of hate.

 

Not to the day, but in 1970 Apollo 13.

 

mmmm why 10 years tho?

 

Rochester defeated New York for the NBA championship

 

We must be the same year... let's see. We got involved in Vietnam. Race riots. And movies like Dr. Zhivago and The Sound of Music...

I'm glad I wasn't actually around for a year like this.

 

Major Events of 1959

EFTA formed
Singapore becomes independent
Uprising in Tibet
DeGaulle agrees to vote on Algerian independence
St. Lawrence Seaway opens
Alaska & Hawaii admitted to the Union as the 49th and 50th states
Kitchen Debate
Castro takes over in Cuba
First flight of the X-15

Sports
NBA: Boston Celtics vs. Minneapolis Lakers Series: 4-0
NCAA Football: Syracuse Record: 11-0-0
Heisman Trophy: Billy Cannon, lsu, HB points: 1,929
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs Series: 4-1
World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago White Sox Series: 4-2

Top Songs
1."Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" ... The Platters
2."Stagger Lee" ... Lloyd Price
3."Venus" ... Frankie Avalon
4."Come Softly to Me" ... The Fleetwoods
5."The Happy Organ" ... Dave "Baby" Cortez
6."Kanas City" ... Wilbert Harrison
7."The Battle of New Orleans" ... Johnny Horton
8."Lonely Boy" ... Paul Anka
9."A Big Hunk O' Love" ... Elvis Presley
10."The Three Bells" ... The Browns

Top Movies
1. Auntie Mame
2. Shaggy Dog
3. Some Like It Hot
4. Imitation of Life
5. The Nun's Story
6. Anatomy of a Murder
7. North by Northwest
8. Rio Bravo
9. Sleeping Beauty
10. Some Came Running

Academy Awards
Best Picture: "Ben-Hur"
Best Director: William Wyler ... "Ben-Hur"
Best Actor: Charlton Heston ... "Ben- Hur"
Best Actress: Simone Signoret ... "Room at the Top"

Grammy Awards
Record of the Year: "Mack the Knife" ... Bobby Darin
Song of the Year: "The Battle of New Orleans" ... Jimmy Driftwood
Album of the Year: "Come Dance with Me" ... Frank Sinatra
Male Vocalist: Frank Sinatra ... "Come Dance with Me"
Female Vocalist: Ella Fitzgerald ... "But Not for Me"

Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
HEYROVSKY, JAROSLAV, Czechoslovakia, Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, b. 1890, d. 1967: "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"

Literature
QUASIMODO, SALVATORE, Italy, b. 1901, d. 1968: "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"

Peace
NOEL-BAKER, PHILIP J., Great Britain, b. 1889, d. 1982: Member of Parliament, life long ardent worker for international peace and co-operation .

Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: OCHOA, SEVERO, U.S.A., New York University, College of Medicine, New York, NY, b. 1905 (in Luarca, Spain), d. 1993; and KORNBERG, ARTHUR, U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, b. 1918: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"

Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: SEGRE, EMILIO GINO, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1905 (in Tivoli, Italy), d. 1989; and CHAMBERLAIN, OWEN, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1920: "for their discovery of the antiproton"

Pulitzer Prizes
Drama: Archibald MacLeish ... "J.B."
Fiction: Robert Lewis Taylor ... "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters"
History: Leonard D. White & Jean Schneider ... "The Republican Era, 1869-1901"
International Reporting: Joseph Martin & Philip Santora ... "New York Daily News"
National Reporting: Howard Van Smith ... "Miami News"
Public Service: "Utica Observer Dispatch" & "Utica Daily Press" (NY)



Most Popular Books

Fiction
1." Exodus"... Leon Uris. Doubleday
2."Doctor Zhivago"... Boris Pasternak. Pantheon Books
3."Hawaii" ... James Michener. Random House
4."Advise and Consent"... Allen Drury. Doubleday
5."Lady Chatterley's Lover" ... D. H. Lawrence. Grove Press
6."The Ugly American"... William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick. Norton
7."Dear and Glorious Physician"... Taylor Caldwell. Doubleday
8."Lolita"... Vladimir Nabokov. Putnam
9."Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris"... Paul Gallico. Doubleday
10. "Poor No More"... Robert Ruark. Holt
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Nonfiction
1."Twixt Twelve and Twenty"... Pat Boone. Prentice-Hall
2."Folk Medicine"... D. C. Jarvis. Holt
3."For 2 Plain"... Harry Golden. World Publishing Co.
4."The Status Seekers"... Vance Packard. McKay
5."Act One"... Moss Hart. Random House
6."Charley Weaver's Letters from Mamma"...Cliff Arquette. Winston
7."Elements of Style"... William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White. Macmillan
8."The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook"... Random House
9."Only in America"... Harry Golden. World Publishing Co.
10."Mine Enemy Grows Older"... Alexander King. Simon & Schuster

Most Popular Television Shows

1. Gunsmoke (CBS)
2. Wagon Train (NBC)
3. Have Gun Will Travel (CBS)
4. The Danny Thomas Show (CBS)
5. The Red Skeleton Show (CBS)
6. Father Knows Best (CBS)
7. 77 Sunset Strip (ABC)
8. The Price is Right (NBC)
9. Wanted: Dead or Alive (CBS)
10. Perry Mason (CBS)

 

I can't find anything


The only thing I found was that they appointed 7 investigators to look into watergate..