1953
First class in computing
1955
Wig Distinguished Professorship Awards established
1957
Last issue of Pomona's humor magazine
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1950
Alger Hiss convicted of perjury
1951
First successful nuclear power plant
1952
First hydrogen bomb
1953
Salk tests polio vaccine
1954
First transistor radio
1955
GM tops $1 billion in earnings
1956
Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957
Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1
1958
John XXIII becomes 261st pope
1959
Barbie doll appears in stores