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Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 14 September 1951.

BOAC’s G-ALYP took off from London for Johannesburg with fare-paying passengers, the first scheduled jetliner service in the world. Comet flights were about twice as fast as advanced piston airliners and cut London–Johannesburg to 21 hours 20 minutes.

Korean Chinese cold noodles at the Shifu Avenue branch in Xita. Published selections include salty-broth cold noodles, kimchi and bellflower-root salad. XiTa LaoTaiTai barbecue is a different operator and its offers are excluded.

On 17 January 1953, opening day of GM's Motorama at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, Chevrolet showed the Corvette prototype, the two-seat fibreglass roadster that became America's sports car.

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 5 February 1953.

Nature carries Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, the paper in which Francis Crick and James Watson describe the double helix. It runs to two pages and settles how genetic instructions are held and passed on.

On 21 January 1954 Mamie Eisenhower christened USS Nautilus (SSN-571) at the Electric Boat yard in Groton, Connecticut, the first nuclear-powered submarine, built by General Dynamics.

The first Tokyo Motor Show, then called the All-Japan Motor Show, ran 20-29 April 1954 in Hibiya Park with 267 vehicles, only 17 of them passenger cars, and 547,000 visitors.

A unanimous US Supreme Court held that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white children violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment - "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" - partially overruling Plessy v. Ferguson and its separate-but-equal doctrine.

Venice Pizza House Since 1954 in City Heights. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

Night & Day Cafe in Coronado. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

France's SNCF pushed two modified electric locomotives to a then-world rail speed record of 331 km/h (206 mph) on a test track near Facture on March 28-29, 1955. An Infrastructural Game Changer cites the run as the moment fast trains overtook cars and planes.

At Ann Arbor, Thomas Francis Jr announced the results of the largest medical field trial ever run - 1.8 million children - and pronounced Jonas Salk's polio vaccine safe, effective and potent. Church bells rang across the United States; within two years American cases had fallen by almost 90 per cent.

On 15 April 1955 Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's franchise restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, the ninth McDonald's overall, a date the present McDonald's Corporation credits as its founding.

Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated musical romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. It reached US theaters on 22 June 1955.

Walt Disney's $17 million theme park, built on former orange groves in Anaheim after a chaotic construction rush, opened to press and invited guests as Disneyland.

The Citroën DS 19 was introduced at the Paris Motor Show on 6 October 1955; 743 orders came in the first 15 minutes, 12,000 on the first day and 80,000 deposits over the ten-day show.

On 17 January 1956 Ford sold 10.2 million shares at US$64.50 in an offering run by Goldman Sachs, with the Ford Foundation as the only seller, ending 53 years as a privately held company.

A Lisbon seafood institution known for shellfish and a casual, busy dining room.

On 26 July 1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company in a broadcast from Alexandria, while Egyptian officials took over its offices. Britain and France were outraged, setting up the Suez Crisis.

Israeli forces attacked across the Sinai Peninsula on 29 October 1956 as part of a secret plan with Britain and France to retake the Suez Canal. British and French landings followed within days, then a UN-backed ceasefire and withdrawal under US pressure.

The first production Boeing 707-120 took off from Renton Municipal Airport on 20 December 1957, flew for seven minutes before weather forced a landing at Boeing Field, and flew again for 71 minutes later that day.

Douglas test pilot Arnold Heimerdinger flew the first DC-8 jetliner, N8008D, from Long Beach on 30 May 1958 to Edwards Air Force Base, a flight of about two hours before a crowd estimated at 50,000.

On 12 September 1958 Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby successfully tested the first working integrated circuit, a phase-shift oscillator on a sliver of germanium with its components linked by wires.

Yang Bing-yi founded Din Tai Fung in Taipei in 1958, first as a cooking-oil retailer and then as a dumpling house when the oil business failed. Its xiaolongbao, pleated to a standard count of folds, turned a single shop on Xinyi Road into a chain across Asia and the United States.

The first Convair 880, a four-jet airliner built with Howard Hughes and TWA, took off from Lindbergh Field in San Diego on 27 January 1959 on a flight scheduled for about two hours.

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. It reached US theaters on 29 January 1959.

The first Grammy Awards were held on 4 May 1959 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, with a simultaneous event in New York; Domenico Modugno's "Volare" won Record and Song of the Year and Henry Mancini's The Music From Peter Gunn won Album of the Year.

H.J. Heinz opens its Kitt Green factory near Wigan, which grows into the company's largest food processing plant in the world and Europe's biggest.

At the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards on 29 November 1959, the first Grammys to be televised and the second held that year, Bobby Darin won Record of the Year and Best New Artist for "Mack the Knife", while Frank Sinatra's Come Dance with Me took Album of the Year and Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans" won Song of the Year.