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1956... I turned 8 in October. I was living at 12 Sherman Avenue, East Hartford, CT Zone 8. My phone # was JA 88375. Eisenhower was President. Alaska & Hawaii were still territories. The King & I was showing in theaters. The Pulitzer Prize for drama was won by The Diary of Anne Frank. The Wizard of Oz was shown on TV for the first time. Workers & students start an uprising in Hungary against communist rule in June but are brutally crushed by the Soviet Union in November. Egypt seizes the Suez Canal, sparking war with Israel, England & France. The U.S. tests its first aerial hydrogen bomb over the Bikini Atoll.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 17:35:26 +0000

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