'50s History for November 20th

In 1953 the French begin constructing defensive outposts at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. In 1958 the Country Music Association holds its first meeting at the studios of WSM in Nashville. And in 1959 the national Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
Born on this date - astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889), cartoonist Chester Gould [Dick Tracy] (1900), actor/TV host Sir Alistair Cooke (1908), comedienne Judy Canova (1913), fashion designer Emilio Pucci (1914), singer June Christy (1925) and N.Y. Senator Robert Francis Kennedy (1925).

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