All Things in Moderation

It’s okie’s birthday and we’re throwing a party!

Ever wonder what was going on the year you were born?

6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… it’s 1952. There’s TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Kukla, Fran and Ollie. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There’s The Ed Sullivan Show on now. That’s the world you were born in.

It’s The Bark Side. I wonder how much Volkswagen is paying to air this during the Super Bowl. —KW

Current Events  from 1952, even though Okie won’t remember them, having just been born and all.

The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC’s Comet, is put into service.

The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio

In a radio address to the nation from the White House, President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all steel mills in the United States in order to prevent a nationwide strike.

U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.

The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.

The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Mike” , at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.

Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history).

Great Smog of 1952: A “killer fog” descends on London (“Smog” for “smoke” and “fog” becomes a word).

And because we can…..Here’s to you Okie

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