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• On February 7 Ted Williams, of the Boston Red Sox, becomes the highest-paid player in baseball history, signing for $125,000.
• In February McNamara and Schneider returned to Major’s Cabin Grill and made the first Diners Club card transaction.
• FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" Program begins on March 14.
• New York’s Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens May 25.
• In June, the Korean War begins.
• On October 2 Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts" debuted in eight newspapers.
• The New York Yankees win the World Series, defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 0, on October 7. 
• President Truman escapes an assassination attempt attempt November 1. White House guards outside the Blair-Lee House shoot two Puerto Rican NAtionals after they killed one guard and wounded another.
• Uruguay wins the fourth World Cup football (soccer) championship, edging Brazil 5 to 4 in the first competition since 1938. 200,000 spectators fill the three tiers of Rio’s unfinished Maracana Stadium for the opening games and the finals.
• Sugar Pops breakfast food is introduced by Kellogg.
• The tiny cub, was found up in a tree with badly burned feet. The cub was named "Hotfoot" but others called him Smokey the Bear.
• Miss Clairol Hair Coloring comes out. Women's hair is colored, tinted, shampooed and conditioned, all in just 20 minutes.
• The first Xerox Machine became available, and replaces other machines that use messy liquid ink.

Emmys
Outstanding Drama: Pulitzer Prize Playhouse

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The 1950's