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| achieves success with East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, gets nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and dies in a car accident on September 30 |
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| Brooklyn's Got A Winning Team |
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| 1955 World Series as the Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series for the only time. (There is cheering in the background of the song during this line.) |
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| is a Disney television series about the legendary frontiersman of the same name. The show was a huge hit with young boys and inspired a short-lived "coonskin cap" fad. |
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| is broadcast on TV live and in color from the 1954 version of the stage musical starring Mary Martin on March 7. |
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| signs with RCA Records on November 21, beginning his pop career. |
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| opens on July 17 as Walt Disney's first theme park. |
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| Brigitte Bardot appears in her first mainstream film And God Created Woman and establishes an international reputation as a French "sex kitten". |
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| is the site of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. |
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| is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA. |
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| Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin's "cult of personality" on February 23. |
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