b'This Quarter in History50 Years Agocontinued . August, September and October 100 Years: 1920-2020 Events to Remember(Oct 15) The Baltimore Orioles defeated the(Aug 31) The first returning from the Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the Worldsun-powered automobile was demonstrated in Chicago, IL. Potsdam Conference Series, 93, to win the series 4 games1955 (Sep 10) Gunsmoke premiered on CBS TV.aboard the U.S. to 1 for their 2nd World(Sep 18) Actress-singer DebbieNavy heavy cruiser Championship.Reynolds (23) wed singer EddieUSS Augusta in (Oct 21) A U.S. AirFisher (27).the middle of the Force plane made an(Sep 21) The last allied occupyingAtlantic Ocean.emergency landingtroops left Austria.(Aug 9) The U.S. near Leninakan,Rocky Marciano knocked out Archie Moore in dropped an atomic Soviet Union. The9 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title.bomb (nicknamed Fat Man) on Nagasaki, Japan, atSoviets released the(Sep 26) The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 6.54%,11:02 a.m. (local time).OCT 1970 OMN ClipAmerican officers,or 31.89 points on news of President Eisenhowers heart1945 (Sep 2) World War II ended: The final official including 2 generals,attack over the weekend. It was the largest single daysurrender of Japan was accepted by the Supreme Allied on November 10.point drop since 1929.Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet (Oct 25) The wreck(Sep 28) The first World Series color TV broadcast was on of the Confederate submarine Hunley was foundAdmiral Chester Nimitz for the U.S., and delegates from NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers). Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Netherlands, China, off Charleston, South Carolina, by 22 year-old pioneer1955 (Oct 1) The first episode of The Honeymoonersand others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence. Hunley was thepremiered on TV starring Jackie Gleason.Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.(Oct 2) Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiered.in Tokyo Bay.(Oct 26) Garry Trudeaus comic strip Doonesbury debuted in(Oct 8) The worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, the USS(Sep 5)The Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko came forward approximately two dozen newspapers in the U.S.Saratoga, was launched. with numerous documents implicating the Soviet Union in Gary Gabelich drove the rocket-powered Blue Flame to(Oct 18) Track & Field magazine named Jesse Owens as thenumerous spy rings in North America: both in the U.S. and an official land speed record of 622.407 mph (1,001.667all-time track athlete. in Canada. km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats inIva Toguri DAquino, a Japanese-American suspected of (Oct 20) The Return of the King, the Utah. The record, the first above 1 000 km/h, stood for nearly thirteen years. third and final volume of The Lord ofbeing wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, was the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien, wasarrested in Yokohama.65 Years Ago published in London. (Sep 8) American troops occupied southern Korea, while 1955 (AUG-OCT WPMA 50 Years of History by Lowe Ashton(Oct 25) Tappan, founded inthe Soviet Union occupied the north, with the dividing line and WPMA Past President photo history) In 1955, IOJABellaire, Ohio sold the firstat the 38th parallel of latitude. This arrangement proved to President Neal Olson of Idaho planned IOJAs third Convo- microwave oven. be the indirect beginning of a divided Korea.cation, in Las Vegas, Nevada for late February/early March. (Oct 26) Ngo Dinh Diem(Sep 9) The first actual case of a (computer) bug was a 1955 (Aug 3) The Automobile Association of Americaproclaimed Vietnam a republic, with himself as president. moth lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at (AAA) ended its support of auto racing.(Oct 28) William Henry [Bill] Gates, the billionaire founder/ the Naval Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.(Aug 4) President Eisenhower authorized $46 million forCEO of Microsoft, was born in Seattle, WA. 1945 (Oct 10) The Detroit Tigers won the World Series in construction of a new CIA headquarters.game 7 against the Chicago Cubs.(Aug 7) Tokyo Telecommunications75 Years Ago (Oct 5) A strike by the Set Decorators Union in Hollywood Engineering, the precursor to Sony, began1945 (Aug 6) WW II: The U.S. dropped an atomic bombresulted in a riot.selling its first transistor radios in Japan.(nicknamed Little Boy) on Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a.m.(Oct 23) Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the (Aug 27) The Guinness Book of World(local time). 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