History: May 25, 1950-1959

SO I decided it would be fun to take a look at what happened today but back in the Fifties, a decade in review.
To start off then, May 25:

1950: The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opened
1951: NY Giant, Willie Mays, 1st Major League Game (for any Baseball fans)
1952: USS Iowa bombards Chongjin, Korea
1953: First atomic cannon electronically fired in Nevada and the first non-commercial educational television station was launched.
1954: no news
1955: A Series of 19 twister destroy areas of Kansas and Oklahoma
1956: Pope Pius XII published encyclical Haurietis aquas
1957:"Shinbone Alley" closed on broadway after 49 performances
1958: no news to report
1959: U.S. Supreme Court rules Louisana Prohibiting Black-White boxing unconstitutional



(Information from Historyorb.com)