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| Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89. |
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| for polio is privately tested by Jonas Salk. |
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| England's Got a New Queen |
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| Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms upon the death of George VI of the United Kingdom. |
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| Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world Heavyweight champion. |
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| has a popular 1950s television show for his musical entertainment. |
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| George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies on September 26. |
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| dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union. |
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| Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Stalin for six months following his death. |
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| Gamal Abdel Nasser acts as the true power behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib's minister of the interior. |
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| Sergei Prokofiev, the composer, dies on March 5, the same day as Stalin. |
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