Highlights of the 1950s included the much-heralded marriage of Abner and Daisy Mae in 1952, the birth of their son " Honest Abe " Yokum in 1953, and in 1954, the introduction of Abner's enormous, long lost kid brother Tiny Yokum, who filled Abner's place as a bachelor in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day race.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

A bomb attack on Christmas Day of 1953 caused many casualties.

Doris Day and Howard Keel, Calamity Jane ( film ) | Calamity Jane ( 1953 )

From 1954 to 1990, the 17th of June was an official holiday in West Germany to commemorate the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, even with the name " Day of the German Unity ".

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.

* 1953 – Pat Day, American jockey

* A Woman a Day ( also " Moth and Rust " and " The Day of Timestop ") by Philip Jose Farmer ( 1953 novella, expanded to full length 1960, same universe as " The Lovers ")

The statement was subsequently included in a talk Sturgeon gave at a session of the World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia, held over the Labor Day weekend of 1953.

Pete is a featured character in the following Donald Duck cartoons: Donald's Lucky Day ( 1939 ), Officer Duck ( 1939 ), The Riveter ( 1940 ), Timber ( 1941 ), Donald Gets Drafted ( 1942 ), The Vanishing Private ( 1942 ), Sky Trooper ( 1942 ), Bellboy Donald ( 1942 ), The Old Army Game ( 1943 ), Trombone Trouble ( 1944 ), The New Neighbor ( 1953 ) and Canvas Back Duck ( 1953, where he fights a semi-pro boxing match with Donald Duck ).

Pete only appears in three Goofy cartoons: Two Gun Goofy and How to be a Detective ( 1952 ), and Father's Day Off ( 1953 ).

The merged school began developing traditions such as Homecoming in 1951, and Red and White Day in 1953.

* Les couleurs du jour ( 1952 ); translated as The Colors of the Day ( 1953 )

Occupation of the island ceased after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and did not resume until the key was connected to the highway by a causeway in 1953.

In 1953, Emporia was the site of the first Veterans Day observance in the United States.

On loan at Warner Brothers, he played Wild Bill Hickok in Calamity Jane ( 1953 ), a highly popular Oscar-winning musical starring Doris Day in one of her most famous screen roles.

* Bill Pullman ( Born 1953 ), Actor who has appeared in over 40 films including " Sleepless in Seattle ", " Independence Day ", " A League of their Own " and " Wyatt Earp ".

* Pat O ' Day ( née Paul Berg ), long-time KJR radio disk jockey and general manager, is a 1953 graduate of Bremerton High School.

Back in the West End, Richardson starred in The White Carnation by R. C. Sherriff in 1953, and in November of the same year he and Gielgud starred together in N. C. Hunter's A Day by the Sea.

Williams died suddenly in the early morning hours of New Years Day in 1953 at the age of 29 from heart failure brought on by pills and alcohol.

Martin and Lyon met in 1950, became lovers in 1952, and moved in together on Valentine's Day 1953 in an apartment on Castro Street in San Francisco.

* On Mother's Day, May 10, 1953 pamphlets were handed out on New York City streetcorners in protest of the approching execution of the Rosenburgs.

Most of them were written between 1953 and 1960 and originally appeared in various magazines.

Capp appeared as a regular on The Author Meets the Critics ( 1948 –' 54 ) and made regular, weekly appearances on Today in 1953.

From 1952-56, she appeared in seventeen films ; in 1953 she played a role in Jean Anouilh's stageplay L ' Invitation au château ( Invitation to the Castle ).

The first of his four volumes appeared in 1940 ( the year he retired ) and the last in 1953, two years before his death.

The discovery was made on 28 February 1953 ; the first Watson / Crick paper appeared in Nature on 25 April 1953.

The project first appeared in " Picture Post " ( UK ) and " Holiday " ( US ) in 1953.

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

He first appeared in issue 561, dated 18 April 1953.

They met in elementary school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland ( Simon as the White Rabbit, Garfunkel as the Cheshire Cat ).

The first authorized adaptation of The Hobbit appeared in March 1953, a stage production by St. Margaret's School, Edinburgh.

In 1950 he started exchanging letters with Jerzy Giedroyc and from 1951 he started having works published in the Parisian journal Culture, where, in 1953, fragments of Dziennik ( Diaries ) appeared.

She appeared in the comedy All Ashore ( 1953 ), for which Edwards was one of the screenwriters.

The latter word was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.

He appeared in several Italian films starting in 1953, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La strada ( 1954 ) opposite Giulietta Masina.

He made his Broadway theater debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley in 1953 and appeared in the original Broadway production of The Desperate Hours in 1955.

It was only after I'd created Little Plum ( April 1953 ) and Minnie the Minx ( September 1953 ) that the Beano editor George Moonie travelled to Preston on 20 October 1953 and asked me to go ahead with Bash Street ( he gave it the provisional title of ' When The Bell Goes '; when it appeared in The Beano in February 1954, it was titled ' When The Bell Rings ').

Reliable caliper-type disc brakes were developed in the UK by Dunlop and first appeared in 1953 on the Jaguar C-Type racing car.

She appeared in many notable films in France during the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin ( 1953 ), directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques ( 1954 ), and The Crucible ( Les Sorcières de Salem ; 1956 ), based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

All together Pluto appeared in 89 short films between 1930 and 1953.

The Number One Dime first appeared in the story titled " The Round Money Bin ", created by Carl Barks and first published in Uncle Scrooge # 3 ( September, 1953 ).