1948 - Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated
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1948 - Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated
1949 - The USSR develops and tests its very first nuclear bomb
1950 - Princess Elizabeth gives birth to Princess Anne.
1951 - HERE, in Brazil, we've had our very first soap opera, to begin with a very deplorable soap-watching tradition that exists even these days: Sua Vida Me Pertence (Your life belongs to me), with a total of FIFTEEN episodes, presented Live, just like a theater play. In the last chapter, the first kiss in a soap opera's happened, featuring the protagonists
1952 - King George VI dies and Princess Elizabeth comes to the throne of the British Empire, while in Kenya, as Queen Elizabeth II.
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1953 - That beauty of a title and the book I've just finished reading, Fahrenheit 451, the ultimate expression of love by reading, is shown to the world. Entirely made by a reasonably poor Ray Bradbury in the basement of an University with a rented typewriter, paying 10 cents per 30 minutes of use, when not at the garage of his home being constantly interrupted by his two children
1954 - J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is first published.
1955 - So long, Albert Einstein! His brain is kept in secret until 1996 when it's donated to an university whose name I forgot in order to pass the comb on it and dissecate its shape and content! It's said some areas of his brain were actually bigger than the same zone from an average person's brain
1956 - The decline of the British Empire as a superpower becomes apparent as Britain is rocked by the events of the Suez Crisis.
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1957 - Jean-Jacques Perrey, mixing his enthusiasm for medicine and the relatively new interest for music, releases one of the first known vinyls of Electronic music in France: Prelude Au Sommei (it was eventually released to a broader radius one year later). Both of the disc's sides contains different arrangements of a same sequence of spooky, DARK, dreamy and dense synthesizer melodies played with an Ondioline, intended to help the listener to get induced to the REM sleep and, dude, I've been listening to this shit every single night after I lost the fear of doing so. Saying has it this album was mainly intended to be used with mental hospitals' patients
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI31XBcKKgk