This Day in History - 1955

I hope I'm not in too much trouble for my  1955 music memories posts in honor of a very special day. Happy Birthday, Chris!!!

Wednesday, April 06, 1955 Top News Headlines This Week: Apr 6 - "3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances   Apr 6 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   Apr 6 - Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam   Apr 9 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   Apr 10 - Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely   Apr 10 - Syracuse beats Fort Wayne, 4 games to 3, for the NBA championship   Top Songs for 1955 Learnin' the Blues by Frank Sinatra     Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford     Autumn Leaves by Roger Williams     Moments to Remember by Four Lads     Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing by Four Aces     Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets     I Hear You Knocking by Gale Storm     The Yellow Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller     Ain't That a Shame by Fats Domino     A Blossom Fell by Nat King Cole     1955 Prices US President Bread:  $0.18/loaf Dwight D. Eisenhower Milk:  $0.92/gal US Vice President Eggs:  $0.79/doz Richard M. Nixon Car:  $1,950 Academy Award Winners Gas:  $0.29/gal Best Picture: Marty   Directed By Delbert Mann Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine   in Marty Best Actress: Anna Magnani   in The Rose Tattoo House:  $17,600 Stamp:  $0.03/ea Avg Income:  $4,962/yr Min Wage:  $0.75/hr DOW Avg:    488 People born on April 6 1944 - Michelle Phillips, rocker (Mamas & The Papas) 1952 - Marilu Henner Chicago, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women) 1937 - Merle Haggard Bakersfield Calif, country singer (Death Valley Days) 1892 - Lowell Thomas Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure) On TV in 1955 Make Room for Daddy    Omnibus    Lassie    The Honeymooners    U.S. Steel Hour    Gunsmoke    This Is Your Life    Alfred Hitchcock Presents    Dragnet    Jackie Gleason Show    Hot New Toys in 1955 Play-doh    Frisbee    Top Books in 1955 The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward     The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy     The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong     Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin     copyright 1997-2013 dMarie Direct Inc