'50s History for March 10th
In 1952 General Fulgencio Batista leads a military coup to regain control of the Cuban government. In 1954 the first tobacco industry liability lawsuit is filed on behalf of Ira Lowe, a smoker stricken with lung cancer. The suit is dropped 13 years later. In 1957 a B-47 bomber that was carrying nuclear material to Europe disappears over the Atlantic ocean. And 1959 the Chinese crackdown on a Lhasa, Tibet uprising, forcing the Dalai Lama to be exiled to India.
Born on this date - actor Barry Fitzgerald (1888), jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke (1903), sportscaster Heywood Hale Broun (1918), writer/actress Pamela Mason (1918), musician/entertainer Kenneth "Jethro" Burns (1920), and singer Dean Torrence [Jan & Dean] (1940).
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