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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.

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.

The thin arch Malpasset Dam on the Reyran River collapsed on the night of 2 December 1959 after weeks of rain, flooding Fréjus on the French Riviera and killing 423 people.

Sweet and creamy, with a soft, chewy texture. This row covers the original milk candy in the bundle.

A magnitude 9.5 megathrust rupture off southern Chile shook for ten minutes — the strongest earthquake ever instrumentally recorded. Its tsunami crossed the Pacific and struck Hilo, Hawaii, with waves 10.7 m high.

Myeongdong chicken shop credited with introducing Korea to electric rotisserie whole chicken (tongdak) in 1960, also serving samgyetang.

In 1961 General Motors installed the Unimate, the world's first industrial robot, at its New Jersey factory to lift and stack hot die-cast metal parts. Industry 4.0 opens its history of factory automation with this machine.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also known as 101 Dalmatians) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions with distribution by Buena Vista Distribution. It reached US theaters on 25 January 1961.

Jaguar revealed the E-Type at the Geneva Motor Show on 15 March 1961; a coupe driven flat out from Coventry and a roadster rushed overnight the next day helped it take more than 500 orders at a show where Jaguar had planned only 250 cars.

At the 3rd Annual Grammy Awards on 12 April 1961, held as dinners including one at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, comedian Bob Newhart won Album of the Year and Best New Artist, Percy Faith's "Theme from A Summer Place" won Record of the Year and Ray Charles took four awards.

A family-run trattoria near the Pantheon devoted to Roman classics.

On 1 May 1962 the Dayton Company opened the first Target discount store, a 68,800-square-foot, one-floor store at 1515 County Road B in Roseville, Minnesota.

At the 4th Annual Grammy Awards on 29 May 1962, Henry Mancini's "Moon River" won Record and Song of the Year and five awards for Mancini in all, Judy Garland became the first woman to win Album of the Year for Judy at Carnegie Hall, and Peter Nero won Best New Artist.

Sam Walton opened Wal-Mart Discount City on Rogers' Highway 71, his first store under the name after a decade running Ben Franklin variety stores. The format was the bet: lower margins on everything, in towns the big chains had written off as too small.

On 29 November 1962 the British and French governments signed a treaty in London to build a supersonic airliner together, sharing work, cost and sales equally. The agreement, with no escape clause, started the programme that became Concorde.

At the 5th Annual Grammy Awards on 15 May 1963, Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" won Record of the Year, Vaughn Meader's Kennedy-parody The First Family won Album of the Year, and Frank Sinatra presented Bing Crosby with the first Lifetime Achievement Award.

On the night of 9 October 1963 a landslide from Monte Toc into the Vajont reservoir sent a wave over the 262 m dam, destroying Longarone and nearby villages and killing roughly 2,000 people.

The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney, based on the 1938 novel by T. H. White. It reached US theaters on 25 December 1963.

Ford introduced the Mustang at the New York World's Fair on 17 April 1964, a US$2,368 pony car that took 22,000 orders on its first day and sold more than 400,000 in its first year.

The hazelnut and cocoa spread that grew out of Pietro Ferrero's post-war Giandujot is first jarred as Nutella at Ferrero's plant in Alba on 20 April 1964.

At the 6th Annual Grammy Awards on 12 May 1964, Henry Mancini's "Days of Wine and Roses" won Record and Song of the Year, Barbra Streisand's debut The Barbra Streisand Album won Album of the Year, and Ward Swingle and the Swingle Singers won Best New Artist.

On October 1, 1964, just nine days before the Tokyo Olympics opened, Japan's Tokaido Shinkansen began carrying passengers between Tokyo and Osaka at over 200 km/h.

The first Douglas DC-9, N9DC, took off from Long Beach at 11:26 a.m. on 25 February 1965 for a 2 hour 13 minute flight to Edwards Air Force Base, starting flight tests of the rear-engined twinjet.

After a gruelling test series that Rolex and Longines-Wittnauer chronographs failed, NASA completed its trials on 1 March 1965 and the Omega Speedmaster became the watch qualified for all manned space missions.

The Houston Astrodome, the world's first fixed-roof, air-conditioned multipurpose stadium, opened on 9 April 1965 with an exhibition game between the Astros and Yankees — though it's stood closed and searching for a new use since 2008.