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Fun and Fancy Free, formerly known as Fun & Fancy Free, is a 1947 American animated musical fantasy anthology film produced by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen and released, by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 27 September 1947.

Captain Chuck Yeager, drop-launched from a B-29 over the Mojave Desert, took X-1 #46-062 "Glamorous Glennis" to Mach 1.06 – the first piloted aeroplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight. It was XS-1 flight number 50.

Melody Time is a 1948 American musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney. It reached US theaters on 27 May 1948.

Claude Shannon's paper appears in the Bell System Technical Journal, defining the bit, channel capacity and entropy, and founding information theory. Every modem, codec and error-correcting code since rests on it.

Bar Brahma opened in 1948 at the corner of São João and Ipiranga, the crossing Caetano Veloso later sang about, and became the bar where São Paulo's journalists, politicians and musicians drank in the same room. It closed once, reopened under another name, failed, and came back as Bar Brahma again.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a 1949 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 5 October 1949.

Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 4 March 1950.

Jack Durant opens his steakhouse on North Central Avenue in Phoenix; three-quarters of a century later its red flocked wallpaper and leather horseshoe booths are still the draw.

A Zhongshan Road snack stop for peanut soup, shacha noodles, oyster omelettes and pork zongzi.

A longstanding Seattle dining room overlooking Lake Union.

Peter Canlis opened his restaurant in 1950 on the slope above Lake Union, in a post-and-beam pavilion of glass and stone that became a landmark of north-west modernism, and it has stayed in the family. Its kimono-clad service and copper-fired charcoal grill were both unusual for an American dining room of the period.

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.