Life when she was born:
• Harry Truman was president
• Gas is .21 cents/gallon
• UNICEF is formed. (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
• U.S. Navy tests atomic bomb at Bikini in the South Pacific
• Xerographic photocopying process invented
• Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care influences millions of new and expectant parents throughout the U.S.
• Strapless bras become popular, ushering in a trend toward bare-shouldered women's fashions
• Tide, the first detergent designed for automatic clothes washing machines, introduced
• First electric clothes dryers
• Suntan lotions, developed for troops during World War II, marketed to consumers for the first time
• Tupperware was invented by American chemist Earl Silas Tupper
• Deviled ham, egg salad, and gold nugget cake were crowd-pleasers. Thank goodness for that newly invented Tupperware.
• "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" by Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers and "Get your kicks on Route 66" by Nat King Cole top the charts
• "The Best of our Lives" premieres in theaters
• Walt Disney's "The Song of the South" premieres .
Life when she was born:
• Harry Truman was president
• Gas is .21 cents/gallon
• UNICEF is formed. (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
• U.S. Navy tests atomic bomb at Bikini in the South Pacific
• Xerographic photocopying process invented
• Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care influences millions of new and expectant parents throughout the U.S.
• Strapless bras become popular, ushering in a trend toward bare-shouldered women's fashions
• Tide, the first detergent designed for automatic clothes washing machines, introduced
• First electric clothes dryers
• Suntan lotions, developed for troops during World War II, marketed to consumers for the first time
• Tupperware was invented by American chemist Earl Silas Tupper
• Deviled ham, egg salad, and gold nugget cake were crowd-pleasers. Thank goodness for that newly invented Tupperware.
• "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" by Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers and "Get your kicks on Route 66" by Nat King Cole top the charts
• "The Best of our Lives" premieres in theaters
• Walt Disney's "The Song of the South" premieres .
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