It happened in 1955

• Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (New York City)

• 1st Presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)

• McGuire Sisters "Sincerely" single goes for #1 and stays there for 1o weeks

• President Eisenhower sends 1st U.S. advisors to South Vietnam

• Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show

• Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

• Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances

• Steve McQueen makes his network YV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)

• Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister

• Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine

• Elston Howard becomes 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform

• Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in Illinois

• Congress orders all U.S. coins bear motto "In God We Trust"

• Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in San Francisco

• Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers

• Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

• "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV

• New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' home run off Chicago Bill Pierce

• Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" released

• Johnny Carson Show debuts on CBS-TV

• Lawrence Welk Show premieres on ABC

• Billy Haley and Comets "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboard chart

• Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County

• President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour

• Guinness Book of World Record 1st published

• "Honeymooners" premieres

• "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres

• Average house was $22,000

• Milk was 92 cents

• Gas was 23 cents

• Postage stamp was 3 cents

• The famous "Don't Walk" signs are introduced to the streets of NYC

• Johnson & Johnson invents the first "baby shampoo" No More Tears!

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I was born in New York City (Bronx) on September 3, 1955 to Luz Selenia Perez and Santos Alfonso Pagan.