Really nice MelodyL (except the 2nd one stopped soon after it started). I remember most of that stuff though I was in my preteen years. Whenever they have a documentary on TV I like to watch it.
Last yr my DHs twin sis gave him a little book about 1956, the year they were born. (It was before my time. I was born in 1958) Does anyone wanna know about 1956:

The Coasters sign w/Atlantic records
The US post office installs electric stamp sellers
Ampax corp. demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
U.S. explodes the 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
U.S. army gets official flag
steel strike
Japan launches world's largest oil tanker, 780 ft long,84,730 tons
1st transatlantic telephone cables
The XVIth Summer Olympic Games open in Australia
In Ohio, Columbus Zoo reports 1st gorilla born in captivity
Castro lands on Eastern coast of Cuba, launching a revolution against the
Batista regime
Lennon & McCartney meet for the 1st time as Lennon's group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
Life magazine was 20 cents
Supreme Court outlaws racial segragation in intrastate public transportation
Martin Luther King organizes a boycot of Alabama public buses
Congress authorizes private atomic energy plants
"As The Worlds Turns" debuts on CBS
TV Favorites: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, I've Got A Secret, Gunsmoke
Pres...Eisenhower - Vice Pres...Nixon
Life expectancy 69.6 yrs
New house - $11,720
Average income - $4,454
New car - $2,050
Average rent - $88
Tuition to Harvard - $800 per yr
Movie ticket - .75
Gasoline - .22
Postage stamp - .03
Granulated sugar - .88/10 lbs
Vitaman D milk - .97/gallon
Coffee - .85/lb
Bacon - .58/lb
Eggs - .27/dozen
Fresh ground hamburger - .56/lb
Fresh baked bread - .18/loaf
Andy Garcia, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mel Gibson, Kenny G, Joe Montana, Carrie Fisher, Sinbad & Bo Derek were born
Music Favorites - Don't be Cruel by Elvis
.......................The Great Pretender by The Platters
.......................Heartbeak Hotel by Elvis
.......................Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) by Perry Como
.......................Hound Dog by Elvis
.......................I Almost Lost My Mind by Pat Boone
.......................Love Me Tender by Elvis
.......................Memories Are Made of This by Dean Martin
.......................Rock and Roll Waltz by Kay Starr
Movie Favorites - Around The World in Eighty Days
.......................The King and I
.......................Invasion of the Body Snatchers
.......................Forbidden Planet
.......................The Man Who Knew Too Much
.......................The Ten Commandments