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1951-1960: OTHER MILESTONES OF THIS TIME PERIOD
- Henry "Hank" Ketchum creates the "Dennis the Menace" cartoon strip. Ketchum is a 1938 graduate of Queen Anne High School in Seattle.
- DuPont established.
- President Harry Truman gives a speech at the Tacoma Armory that is nationally broadcast on radio.
- Boeing begins testing the Dash 80-which later becomes the Boeing 707.
- Jack Kerouac works a summer as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascades.
- President Eisenhower speaks at University of Puget Sound.
- The city of Fife is incorporated (January 11).
- Elvis Presley performs at Tacoma's Lincoln Bowl for 6,000 fans (September 1).
- The Villa Plaza Shopping Center opens in Lakewood.
- Rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash - "the day the music died" - (February 3).
- The Washington state legislature approves funds for the Seattle's World Fair.
- County-City Building is dedicated (April 10).
- University of Washington wins its first Rose Bowl by defeating Wisconsin 44-8.
- Cheney Stadium opens.
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