1950s AD
Archive for November 1st, 2011
01
Nov
FIRST H-BOMB DETONATED ON THIS DAY IN 1952
On Nov. 1, 1952, U.S. scientists exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test
at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. With an explosive force of 10 million tons
of TNT, the detonation vaporized the entire island, leaving a crater more than
a mile wide. It was more than 500 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped
on Hiroshima. The test was given the code-name “Mike”.
01
Nov
HIS LAST #1 HIT ON THIS DAY IN 1969
"Suspicious Minds" became one of Elvis Presley’s most notable hits and was
widely regarded as the single that returned Presley’s career, following the
‘68 Comeback Special that was televised on December 2nd. The song was
his seventeenth and last number-one record in the U.S.
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