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USS Orion (AS-18) Authorized	1940 On This Date	Elsewhere "Sitzkrieg" ends in Europe
	4 April	U.S. Fleet departs West Coast for maneuvers in Hawaiian Islands area.
	9 April	Germany invades Norway
Construction authorized	1 May
	7 May	President orders Pacific Fleet to remain in Hawaiian waters indefinitely
	10 May	Churchill replaces Chamberlain as Prime Minister
	12 May	Germany invades France
	15 May	Nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S. for the first time
	26 May	Evacuation of Dunkirk begins
	10 June	Norway surrenders. Italy declares war on Allies
	14 June	Paris falls. President Roosevelt signs Naval Expansion Act
	10 July	Battle of Britain begins
	20 August	Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico
	15 September	British airmen, using new radar system, shoot down 185 German planes
	27 September	Japan signs Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy
	7 November	"Galloping Gertie," Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapses
	11-12 November	British naval aircraft attack Italian fleet at Taranto
	14 November	German bombing raid devastates Coventry
	24 November	Germans seal off Jewish ghetto in Warsaw
	8 December	Luftwaffe ravages London in 24-hour raid
	9 December	British attack Italians at Sidi Barrani in Egypt
	29 December	London suffers its most devastating air raid

Some Top Songs in 1940

Scatterbrain -- Frankie Masters All the Things You Are -- Tommy Dorsey Careless -- Glenn Miller Indian Summer -- Tommy Dorsey Darn That Dream -- Benny Goodman When You Wish Upon a Star -- Glenn Miller Woodpecker Song -- Glenn Miller Imagination-- Glenn Miller Make Believe Island -- Mitchell Ayres Fools Rush In -- Glenn Miller I'll Never Smile Again -- Tommy Dorsey Sierra Sue -- Bing Crosby Maybe -- Ink Spots Practice Makes Perfect -- Bob Chester Only Forever -- Bing Crosby Ferry Boat Serenade -- The Andrews Sisters Trade Winds -- Bing Crosby We Three -- Ink Spots There I Go -- Vaughn Monroe Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar -- Will Bradley Blueberry Hill -- Glenn Miller The Breeze and I -- Jimmy Dorsey In the Mood -- Glenn Miller Tuxedo Junction -- Glenn Miller Sports in 1940 Indianapolis 500: Wilbur Shaw Kentucky Derby: Gallahadion Stanley Cup: N.Y. Rangers 4, Toronto 2 Major League Baseball World Series: Cincinnati 4, Detroit 3 Pro Football Green Bay 45, College All-Stars 28 NFL Championship: Bears 40, Washington 0 College Football: Navy 14, Army 0 Rose Bowl: USC 14, Tennessee 0 Cotton Bowl: Clemson 6, Boston College 3 Orange Bowl: Georgia Tech 21, Missouri 7 Sugar Bowl: Texas A&M 14, Tulane 13 College Basketball NCAA Championship: Indiana 60, Kansas 42 At the Movies On the Radio "Pinocchio" "Fantasia" "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" "The Grapes of Wrath" "The Great Dictator" "Kitty Foyle" "The Letter" "The Long Voyage Home" "Our Town" "The Philadelphia Story" Abbott and Costello Can You Top This? Gene Autry's Melody Ranch Portia Faces Life Truth or Consequences

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USS Orion Construction begins	1941 On This Date	Elsewhere U.S. goes to war
	11 March	Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act
	13 April	Soviet Union signs nonaggression pact with Japan
	22 March	The Grand Coulee Dam went into operation
	17 April	Yugoslavia surrenders to Germans
	10 May	Rudolf Hess lands in Scotland
	24 May	Bismarck sinks HMS Hood in Denmark Strait
	27 May	Bismarck sunk by British Navy in North Atlantic
	1 June	Crete falls to Germans
	22 June	Germany invades USSR
Keel Laid at Moore Dry Dock Co. Oakland, Calif.	31 July	Japan apologizes for bombing the river gunboat Tutuila (PR-4) on 30 July at Chunking
	8 September	Siege of Leningrad begins
	27 September	First Liberty Ship, SS Patrick Henry, is launched
	17 October	USS Kearny (DD-432) attacked by German submarine
	31 October	USS Reuben James (DD-245) is first U.S. warship to be sunk by enemy action in WW II
	7 December	Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
	8 December	U.S. declares war on Japan
	10 December	USS Sealion (SS-195) scuttled in Manila Bay
	11 December	Germany and Italy declare war on the United States
	30 December	Admiral C. W. Nimitz assumes command of the Pacific Fleet

Popular Songs of 1941

Frenesi -- Artie Shaw I Hear a Rhapsody -- Charlie Barnett Amapola -- Jimmy Dorsey The Wise Old Owl -- Al Donohue My Sister and I -- Jimmy Dorsey Intermezzo -- Guy Lombardo Maria Elena -- Jimmy Dorsey The Hut Sut Song -- Freddy Martin Daddy -- Sammy Kaye You and I -- Glenn Miller I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire -- Horace Heidt Tonight We Love -- Freddy Martin Elmer's Tune -- Glenn Miller Chattanooga Choo Choo -- Glenn Miller Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar -- Will Bradley Blue Champagne -- Jimmy Dorsey Dream Valley -- Sammy Kaye Green Eyes -- Jimmy Dorsey In the Mood -- Glenn Miller 'Til Reveille -- Kay Kyser We Three -- The Ink Spots Sports in 1941 Indianapolis 500: Floyd Davis/Mauri Rose Kentucky Derby: Whirlaway Major League Baseball World Series: Yankees 4, Dodgers 1 Lou Gehrig died June 2 from ALS Pro Football Chicago Bears 37, College All-Stars 13 NFL Championship: Bears 37, New York 9 College Football: Navy 14, Army 6 Rose Bowl: Stanford 21, Nebraska 13 Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M 13, Fordham 12 Orange Bowl: Miss. St. 14, Georgetown 7 Sugar Bowl: Boston College 19, Tennessee 13 At the Movies On the Radio "Sergeant York" "Buck Privates" "How Green Was My Valley" "Blossoms in the Dust" "Citizen Kane" "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" "Hold Back the Dawn" "The Little Foxes" "The Maltese Falcon" "One Foot in Heaven" "Suspicion" Bulldog Drummond A Date With Judy Duffy's Tavern The Great Gildersleeve The Inner Sanctum The Life of Riley The Adventures of the Thin Man

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USS Orion (AS-18) Launched	1942 On This Date	Elsewhere Nazis come up with "Final Solution" West Coast Japanese-Americans relocated
	7 January	Siege of Bataan begins in the Philippines
	20 January	USS S-36 (SS-141) destroyed after grounding in Makassar Strait, Indonesia. Entire crew rescued
	21 January	Rommel begins counter-offensive in Libya
	9 February	French liner Normandie catches fire in New York
	15 February	Singapore falls to Japanese
	19 February	President Roosevelt signs internment order for Japanese-Americans
	20 February	"Butch" O'Hare becomes first Navy flying ace
	23 February	Japanese subs shell oil refinery near Santa Barbara
	3 March	USS Perch (SS-176) lost near Soerabia, Java. 60 survivors taken prisoner, 52 survived the war
	7 March	USS Shark (SS-174) reported lost with all hands
	21 March	Flying Tigers become part of U.S. Army Air Force
	26 March	First Jews sent to Auschwitz
	10 April	Bataan Death March begins. USS Canopus (AS-9) scuttled off Manila Bay
	13 April	German U-boat sunk off North Carolina
	18 April	Doolittle Raid launched from USS Hornet (CV-8)
	4-8 May	Battle of the Coral Sea
	6 May	Corregidor surrenders
	30 May	RAF launches 1,000-plane raid on Cologne
	4-6 June	Battle of Midway
	19 June	USS S-27 (SS-132) lost after grounding off Amchitka Island. Entire crew rescued
	22 June	Congress recognizes Pledge of Allegiance
Launched. Sponsor: Mrs. Ross L. Culp	24 June
	5 July	German U-boats begin attacks on Convoy PQ-17. Sink 24 of 35 ships over next few days
	7 August	Marines land on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
	8 August	German saboteurs executed in Washington
	9 August	Battle of Savo Island
	16 August	USS Grunion (SS-216) lost with all hands near Kistka, Alaska. USS S-39 (SS-144) destroyed after grounding on reef near Rossel Island. Entire crew rescued
	19 August	Dieppe Raid crushed
	23 August	Battle of Stalingrad begins
	24 August	Battle of the Eastern Solomons
	11-12 October	Battle of Cape Esperance
	15 October	Fremantle-Perth submarine base established
	26 October	Battle of Santa Cruz Islands
	3 November	Battle of El Alamein ends
	12 November	Liberty Ship SS Robert E. Peary is launched. Constructed in 4 days, 15 hours and 26 minutes
	12-15 November	Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
	19 November	Soviets launch counter-attack at Stalingrad
	21 November	Alcan Highway completed
	26 November	Roosevelt orders nationwide gas rationing
	28 November	Coconut Grove fire in Boston kills 492
	30 November	Battle of Tassafaronga

Popular Songs of 1942

Blues in the Night -- Woody Herman Deep in the Heart of Texas -- Alvino Ray Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree -- Glenn Miller He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings -- Kay Kyser I Don't Want to Walk Without You -- Harry James I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo -- Glenn Miller Jersey Bounce -- Benny Goodman Jingle, Jangle, Jingle -- Kay Kyser Moonlight Cocktail -- Glenn Miller Sleepy Lagoon -- Harry James Somebody Else Is Taking My Place -- Benny Goodman Tangerine -- Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra White Christmas -- Bing Crosby The White Cliffs of Dover -- Kay Kyser Sports in 1942 Indianapolis 500: No race Kentucky Derby: Shut Out Major League Baseball World Series: Cardinals 4, Yankees 1 Pro Football Chicago Bears 21, College All-Stars 0 NFL Championship: Washington 14, Bears 6 College Football: Navy 14, Army 0 Rose Bowl: Oregon State 20, Duke 16 Cotton Bowl: Alabama 29, Texas A&M 21 Orange Bowl: Georgia 40, Texas Christian 26 Sugar Bowl: Fordham 2, Missouri 0 At the Movies On the Radio "Bambi" "For Me and My Gal" "To the Shores of Tripoli" "Mrs. Miniver" "The Invaders" "Kings Row" "The Magnificent Ambersons" "The Pied Piper" "The Pride of the Yankees" "Random Harvest" "The Talk of the Town" "Wake Island" "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Mr. and Mrs. North The Cisco Kid Counterspy Frank Sinatra Show Hop Harrigan It Pays to Be Ignorant People Are Funny Red Ryder Suspense The Whistler

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USS Orion Commissioning and shakedown	1943 On This Date	Elsewhere Our submarines carry the war to Japan
	10 January	USS Argonaut (SS-166) lost with all hands off Rabaul
	14 January	Casablanca Conference begins
	2 February	Germans surrender at Stalingrad
	9 February	Guadalcanal declared secure
	16 February	USS Amberjack (SS-219) lost with all hands off Rabaul
	2-5 March	Battle of the Bismarck Sea
	5 March	USS Grampus (SS-207) lost with all hands in Blackett Strait
	10 March	Rommel leaves North Africa
	15 March	USS Triton (SS-201) lost with all hands
	3 April	USS Pickerel (SS-177) lost with all hands off Honshu
	19 April	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
	22 April	USS Grenadier (SS-210) lost near Penang. 61 survivors taken prisoner, 57 survived the war
	11 May	U.S. forces land on Attu in the Aleutians
	13 May	Battle for North Africa ends
	16 May	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends
	1 June	Germans shoot down civilian passenger plane flying between Lisbon and London carrying actor Leslie Howard. All aboard are killed
	1 July	USS Runner (SS-275) lost with all hands between Midway Island and Hokkaido
	6 July	Battle of Kula Gulf
	10 July	Allies land in Sicily
	13 July	Battle of Kolombangara. Battle of Kursk ends with Russian victory
	25 July	Mussolini place under arrest
	17 August	In Sicily, Patton wins race to Messina
	1 September	USS Pompano (SS-181) lost with all hands off Honshu
	8 September	Italy surrenders
	9 September	USS Grayling (SS-209) lost with all hands in or near Tablas Strait, Philippines
	13 September	Germans free Mussolini from prison
Towed from Moore Dry Dock Co. to Hunter's Point to install propellers	21 September
	28 September	USS Cisco (SS-290) lost with all hands in Sulu Sea
Commissioning at Hunter's Point, San Francisco Captain C. S. Isrig assumes Command	30 September
	6 October	Battle of Vella Lavella
	7 October	USS S-44 (SS-155) lost off Northern Kuriles. 2 survivors taken prisoner, both survived the war
Completes taking on fuel, ammunition and stores	11 October	USS Wahoo (SS-238) lost with all hands in or near La Perouse Strait
Compensates her magnetic compass	12 October	USS Dorado (SS-248) lost with all hands in Atlantic
Underway for photographs	13 October	Italy declares war on Germany
Departs San Francisco. Fires her entire battery while enroute to San Diego	15 October
Arrives San Diego, reports to Commander Training, Pacific Fleet	17 October
Begins trial runs (shakedown)	18 October
Underway from San Diego	28 October
Arrives at Mare Island to take on fuel and stores, send men to schools, and prepare for a long Southwest Pacific cruise	30 October
	1 November	Marines land on Bougainville, Solomon Islands
	2 November	Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
	16 November	USS Corvina (SS-226) lost with all hands near Truk
Partial load of torpedoes taken aboard	17 November
	19 November	USS Sculpin (SS-191) lost near Truk. 42 survivors taken prisoner, 21 survived the war
	20 November	Marines land on Tarawa, Gilbert Islands
Underway from San Francisco. Passes under the Golden Gate Bridge at 1552	21 November
	25 November	Battle of Cape St. George
	28 November	Big Three meet in Teheran
Arrives Pearl Harbor, T.H.	29 November
Receives first submarine, USS Gar (SS-206) alongside for two days of repair	1 December	USS Capelin (SS-289) lost with all hands off Celebes or in the Molukka Passage
Departs for Australia	10 December
Crosses Equator at Longitude 166 West	14 December
Crosses the International Dateline	18 December
Arrives, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Ties up at New Farm Wharf, takes on more torpedoes	24 December
Departs Brisbane	28 December

Popular Songs of 1943

All or Nothing at All -- Frank Sinatra With Harry James As Time Goes By -- Rudy Vallee Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer -- Song Spinners I Had the Craziest Dream -- Harry James Orchestra I've Heard That Song Before -- Harry James In the Blue of the Evening -- Tommy Dorsey Orchestra It Can't Be Wrong -- Dick Haymes Let's Get Lost -- Vaughn Monroe Mister Five by Five -- Harry James Moonlight Becomes You -- Bing Crosby Paper Doll -- Mills Brothers Pistol Packin' Mama -- Al Dexter Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition -- Kay Kyser Sunday, Monday, Or Always -- Bing Crosby Taking a Chance on Love -- Benny Goodman That Old Black Magic -- Glenn Miller Orchestra There Are Such Things -- Tommy Dorsey When the Lights Go On Again -- Vaughn Monroe You'll Never Know -- Dick Haymes/The Song Spinners Sports in 1943 Indianapolis 500: No race Kentucky Derby: Count Fleet Major League Baseball World Series: Yankees 4, Cardinals 1 Pro Football College All-Stars 27, Washington 7 NFL Championship: Bears 41, Washington 21 College Football: Navy 13, Army 0 Rose Bowl: Georgia 9, UCLA 0 Cotton Bowl: Texas 14, Georgia Tech 7 Orange Bowl: Alabama 37, Boston College 21 Sugar Bowl: Tennessee 14, Tulsa 7 At the Movies On the Radio "Girl Crazy" "Jitterbugs" "Casablanca" "For Whom the Bell Tolls" "Heaven Can Wait" "The Human Comedy" "In Which We Serve" "Madame Curie" "The More the Merrier" "The Ox-Bow Incident" "Song of Bernadette" "Watch on the Rhine" Archie Andrews Judy Canova Show The Falcon Adventures of Nero Wolfe Nick Carter, Master Detective Theater Guild on the Air

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USS Orion Fremantle/Perth and Mios Woendi	1944 On This Date	Events Elsewhere Allies invade France
Arrives Fremantle, Western Australia. Moors starboard side to Berth 6, North Wharf, and begins her mission of maintaining submarines in the Southwest Pacific	5 January
Transfers electric torpedoes and shop equipment to the Submarine Base torpedo shop	7 January	Air Force announces first jet fighter
Some of the steam torpedoes are transferred to the USS Pelias (AS-14). USS Ray (SS-271) comes alongside for refit	12 January
	16 January	Eisenhower appointed Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord
	1 February	USS Scorpion (SS-278) lost with all hands in East China Sea
	26 February	USS Grayback (SS-208) lost with all hands
	29 February	USS Trout (SS-202) lost with all hands in the Philippine Basin
Orion ordered to leave Fremantle PDQ because a Japanese war fleet was heading toward the west coast of Australia and may have been heading for Fremantle. Left some of the crew on liberty in Perth.	8 March
En route to Albany, Western Australia	8-10 March
En route from Albany back to Fremantle in company with HMS Adelaide, USS Pelias, and USS Chanticleer (ASR-7)	14-16 March
	26 March	USS Tullibee (SS-284) lost just north of Palau. One survivor taken prisoner, he survived the war
	12 May	USS Gudgeon (SS-211) lost with all hands off Saipan
	19 May	Allies break through at Monte Cassino
	27 May	Allies invade Biak Island off north coast of New Guinea
	1 June	USS Herring (SS-233) lost with all hands off Matsuwa Island in the Kuriles
	4 June	USS S-28 (SS-133) lost with all hands after it foundered off Hawaii
	6 June	Allies invade Normandy
	14 June	USS Golet (SS-361) lost with all hands
	15 June	Marines invade Saipan in the Marianas. German V-1 "Buzz Bombs" hit London
	22 June	G.I. Bill signed into law
	27 June	Allies take Cherbourg
	6 July	Circus fire in Hartford, Conn., kills 168, injures over 600
	8 July	USS Growler (SS-215) lost with all hands in the South China Sea
Commander G. L. Shane relieves Capt. Isrig	10 July
	19 July	Plot to kill Hitler fails
	26 July	USS Robalo (SS-273) lost with all hands off Palawan
	1 August	Warsaw revolt begins
Departs Fremantle in company with USS Corpus Christi (PF-44) and USS Isabel (PY-10)	6 August
	13 August	USS Flier (SS-250) lost in Balabac Strait. Eight survivors taken prisoner, all survived the war
Arrives Brisbane to take on stores, fuel and torpedoes	14 August
Departs Brisbane	19 August
	24 August	USS Harder (SS-257) lost with all hands near Bataan
	25 August	Paris is liberated by Free French troops
Arrives Schouten Islands, Mios Woendi anchorage, near Biak, to establish Advance Submarine Base Able	26 August
Smoker aboard Orion. Among honored guests are officers and crews of USS Darter (SS-227) and USS Dace (SS-247)	27 September
	1 October	USS Escolar (SS-294) lost with all hands
	3 October	USS Seawolf (SS-197) lost with all hands just north of Morotai
	20 October	Leyte landing, MacArthur returns to Philippines
	23-26 October	Battle of Leyte Gulf
	24 October	USS Shark (SS-314) lost with all hands between Hainan and Bashi Channel.  USS Darter destroyed after grounding on Bombay Shoal off Palawan. Entire crew rescued by USS Dace
	25 October	USS Tang (SS-306) lost in the Formosa Strait. Nine survivors taken prisoner, all survived the war
	7 November	USS Albacore (SS-218) lost with all hands between Hokkaido and Honshu. Roosevelt defeats Thomas Dewey to win 4th term
	16 November	USS Scamp (SS-277) lost with all hands near Tokyo Bay
Relieved by USS Griffin (AS-13)	9 December
Departs Mios Woendi to return to Hawaii for overhaul	10 December
	16 December	Battle of the Bulge begins. Glenn Miller disappears over English Channel
Crosses International Dateline	17 December	Typhoon strikes Task Force 38 in the Philippine Sea
Crosses Equator	19 December
Arrives Pearl Harbor for installation of Mark 37 gun director, Mark VI and Mark XXII fire control radar and new surface search radar. With the first tour done, she was being upgraded for the second tour -- invasion of Japan. Air conditioning installed in Optical Shop and Sick Bay.  Many of the plankowners were moved, some went to fleet schools, etc.	24 December to 8 April

Popular Songs of 1944

Besame Mucho -- Jimmy Dorsey Don't Fence Me In -- Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters G.I. Jive -- Louis Jordan I Love You -- Bing Crosby I'll Get By -- Harry James I'll Walk Alone -- Dinah Shore I'm Making Believe -- Ella Fitzgerald/The Ink Spots It's Love, Love, Love -- Guy Lombardo Mairzy Doats -- Merry Macs My Heart Tells Me -- Glen Gray Shoo Shoo Baby -- The Andrews Sisters San Fernando Valley -- Bing Crosby Swinging on a Star -- Bing Crosby Sports in 1944 Indianapolis 500: No race Kentucky Derby: Pensive Major League Baseball World Series: St. Louis (NL) 4, St. Louis (AL) 2 Pro Football Chicago Bears 24, College All-Stars 21 NFL Championship: Green Bay 14, New York 7 College Football: Army 23, Navy 7 Rose Bowl: USC 29, Washington 0 Cotton Bowl: Texas 7, Randolph Field 7 Orange Bowl: Louisiana St. 19, Texas A&M 14 Sugar Bowl: Georgia Tech 20, Tulsa 18 At the Movies On the Radio "Meet Me in St. Louis" "Going My Way" "Double Indemnity" "Gaslight" "Since You Went Away" "Wilson" "None But the Lonely Heart" "Laura" "Lifeboat" Boston Blackie FBI in Peace and War The Life of Riley The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet The Roy Rogers Show Smilin' Ed and His Buster Brown Gang

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USS Orion Duty at Saipan, then back to the States	1945 On This Date	Events Elsewhere World War II ends
	3 January	Allies land on west coast of Burma
	9 January	U.S. forces invade Luzon in the Philippines
	20 January	FDR inaugurated for fourth term
	21 January	Battle of the Bulge ends
	30 January	Burma Road cleared
	4 February	USS Barbel (SS-316) lost with all hands in southern entrance to the Palawan Passage
	11 February	Yalta Conference ends
	15 February	USS Swordfish (SS-193) lost with all hands off Kyushu
	16 February	U.S. Paratroopers land on Corregidor
	19 February	Marines land on Iwo Jima
	23 February	Marines raise U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi
	1 March	USS Kete (SS-369) lost with all hands
	10 March	Fire bomb raid on Tokyo
	25 March	Germany's largest submarine, U-234, leaves Kiel to deliver a Me-262 jet fighter, drawings of the V-2 rocket and a half-ton of uranium to Japan
	26 March	Battle for Iwo Jima ends
	28 March	USS Trigger (SS-237) lost with all hands
	1 April	Invasion of Okinawa
Departs Pearl in company with USS Yokes (APD-69) to return to active duty	8 April	USS Snook (SS-279) lost with all hands near Hainan Island
Crosses International Date Line	12 April 13 April (West)	President Roosevelt Dies. Harry S Truman becomes president.
Arrives Eniwetok Atoll, Caroline Islands. Makes voyage repairs to USS Sargo (SS-188)	16 April
Departs Eniwetok	17 April
	18 April	Correspondent Ernie Pyle killed on Ie Shima (Okinawa)
Arrives Guam, Marianas Islands. Anchors in Apra Harbor to unload special stores and spare parts.	20 April
Sails from Guam in company with USS SC-1362	22 April
Arrives Saipan, Marianas Islands.	23 April
Relieves USS Fulton (AS-11) and takes up duties of CTG 17.7 and as SOPA (Admin) for Tanapag Harbor, Saipan	24 April
	25 April	American and Soviet troops meet at the Elbe River
	28 April	Mussolini and mistress shot, hung up for public view
	30 April	Hitler commits suicide
	4 May	Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon
	8 May	V-E Day. Germany signs unconditional surrender
	16 May	U-234 surrenders at Portsmouth, N.H.
Captain E. R. Hannon relieves Capt. Shane	27 May
	30 May	USS Lagarto (SS-371) lost with all hands off Malay coast
	18 June	USS Bonefish (SS-223) lost with all hands in Toyama Wan, near Suzu Misaki, off the west coast of Honshu
	22 June	Battle for Okinawa ends
	26 June	51 nations sign U.N. Charter
	16 July	First A-bomb detonated near Alamagordo, N.M.
	17 July	Potsdam Conference opens
	28 July	B-25 bomber smashes into Empire State Building. Senate ratifies U.N. Charter
	29 July	Japanese sub torpedoes and sinks USS Indianapolis  (CA-35) near Leyte Gulf
	2 August	Potsdam Conference ends
	6 August	USS Bullhead (SS-332) lost with all hands in west end of Lombok Strait Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
	8 August	Soviet Union declares war on Japan
	9 August	Second A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki Soviet troops invade Manchuria
	14 August 15 August (West)	At 2300, G.C.T., President Truman announced that the Japanese had surrendered unconditionally to our terms.
	25 August	John Birch, missionary to China and army intelligence specialist, killed by Chinese Communists, considered by many to be the first casualty of the Cold War
	30 August	MacArthur arrives in Japan to command occupation
Underway from Saipan to return to the United States	1 September
	2 September	Japan signs surrender aboard USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay. Ho Chi Minh proclaims independent Vietnam
Crosses the International Date Line	7 September
Arrives Pearl Harbor, T.H. Unloads about 300 passengers and soldiers from Saipan and other forward areas.	10 September
Departs Hawaii to join the Atlantic Fleet	15 September
	19 September	Lord Haw Haw receives death sentence
	22 September	French forces return to Vietnam
Arrives Balboa, C.Z.	28 September
Underway from Balboa. Passes through the Panama Canal enroute to East Coast	30 September
	24 October	U.N. formally established
Participates in President Truman's Navy Day Review of the Fleet in the Hudson River	27 October
	20 November	Nuremberg trials begin
	21 December	General Patton dies in Germany
	27 December	Allied powers agree to divide Korea
	28 December	Congress officially recognizes the "Pledge of Allegiance"

Popular Songs of 1945

Accentuate the Positive -- Johnny Mercer Candy -- Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford Chickery Chick -- Sammy Kaye Dream-- Pied Pipers I Can't Begin to Tell You -- Bing Crosby/Carmen Cavallaro I'm Beginning to See the Light -- Harry James It's Been a Long, Long Time -- Bing Crosby With Les Paul It's Been a Long, Long Time -- Harry James My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time -- Les Brown On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe -- Johnny Mercer Rum and Coca-Cola -- The Andrews Sisters Sentimental Journey -- Les Brown There, I've Said It Again -- Vaughn Monroe Till the End of Time -- Perry Como White Christmas -- Bing Crosby Sports in 1945 Indianapolis 500: No race Kentucky Derby: Hoop Jr. Major League Baseball World Series: Detroit 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Pro Football Green Bay 19, College All-Stars 7 NFL Championship: Cleveland Rams 15, Washington 14 College Football: Army 32, Navy 13 Rose Bowl: USC 25, Tennessee 0 Cotton Bowl: Oklahoma State 34, TCU 0 Orange Bowl: Tulsa 26, Georgia Tech 12 Sugar Bowl: Duke 29, Alabama 26 At the Movies On the Radio "The Bells of St. Mary's" "Dillinger" "The Clock" "The Lost Weekend" "Anchors Aweigh" "Mildred Pierce" "Spellbound" "Love Letters" "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" "National Velvet" Calling All Detectives The Couple Next Door Maisie Queen for a Day Adventures of Rocky Jordan This Is Your FBI

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USS Orion -Assigned to Submarine Squadron 6	1946 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
	10 January	First meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in London
Begins duty with Subron 6 in Balboa, Canal Zone	24 January
	9 February	Stalin declares Communism and capitalism cannot coexist
	24 February	Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
	5 March	Winston Churchill gives "Iron Curtain" speech
	1 July	A-bomb tests held at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
	20 September	First Cannes Film Festival held
	1 October	Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremburg
	15 October	Hermann Goering commits suicide
	16 October	High ranking Nazis hanged at Nuremberg
	20 December	Ho Chi Minh begins war against French in Indochina
	24 December	First live telecast of a church service
	31 December	Official end of World War II

Popular Songs of 1946

Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief -- Betty Hutton (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons -- Nat King Cole Five Minutes More --Frank Sinatra The Gypsy -- Ink Spots I'm a Big Girl Now -- Sammy Kaye Oh! What It Seemed to Be -- Frankie Carle The Old Lamplighter -- Sammy Kaye Ole Buttermilk Sky -- Kay Kyser Personality -- Johnny Mercer Prisoner of Love -- Perry Como Rumors Are Flying -- Frankie Carle Surrender -- Perry Como Symphony -- Freddy Martin To Each His Own -- Eddy Howard R&B 1946 Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop -- Lionel Hampton Choo Choo Ch-Boogie -- Louis Jordan Stone Cold Dead in the Market--Louis Jordan/Ella Fitzgerald The Gypsy -- Ink Spots R. M. Blues -- Roy Milton Buzz Me -- Louis Jordan Drifting Blues -- Johnny Moore & His Three Blazers Salt Pork, W.Va. -- Louis Jordan I Know -- Jubilaires & Andy Kirk Orchestra Ain't That Just Like a Woman -- Louis Jordan Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule -- Louis Jordan Route 66 -- King Cole Trio Beware -- Louis Jordan Reconversion Blues -- Louis Jordan Don't Be a Baby, Baby -- Mills Brothers That Chick's Too Young to Fry -- Louis Jordan I've Got a Right to Cry-- Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' -- Louis Jordan I Know Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well -- Bull Moose Jackson I've Got a Right to Cry -- Erskine Hawkins Tanya -- Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Country Hits of 1946 New Spanish Two Step -- Bob Wills Guitar Polka -- Al Dexter Divorce Me C.O.D. -- Merle Travis Roly-Poly -- Bob Wills Sioux City Sue -- Zeke Manners Wine, Women and Song -- Al Dexter Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You ) -- Elton Britt Cincinnati Lou -- Merle Travis Sioux City Sue -- Hoosier Hot Shots That's How Much I Love You -- Eddy Arnold Sioux City Sue -- Dick Thomas Honey, Do You Think It's Wrong? -- Al Dexter I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine -- Gene Autry Detour -- Spade Cooley No Vacancy -- Merle Travis Drivin' Nails in My Coffin -- Floyd Tillman Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? -- Gene Autry Rainbow at Midnight -- Ernest Tubb You Can't Break My Heart -- Spade Cooley Filipino Baby -- Ernest Tubb Sports in 1946 Indianapolis 500: George Robson Kentucky Derby: Assault Major League Baseball World Series: St. Louis (NL) 4, Boston 3 Pro Football College All-Stars 16, L.A. Rams 0 NFL Championship: Bears, 24, New York 14 College Football: Army 21, Navy 18 Rose Bowl: Alabama 34, USC 14 Cotton Bowl: Texas 40, Missouri 27 Orange Bowl: Miami (FL) 13, Holy Cross 6 Sugar Bowl: Okla. St. 33, St. Mary’s (Colo.) 13 At the Movies On the Radio "The Best Years of Our Lives" "Duel in the Sun" "Till the Clouds Roll By" "Henry V" "It's a Wonderful Life" "The Razor's Edge" "The Yearling" "The Jolson Story" Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts The Bickersons Bob & Ray The Adventures of Sam Spade Sky King

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USS Orion	1947 On This Date	Events Elsewhere Tension builds with the Russians
	3 January	Congress' opening ceremonies televised for first time
	20 February	Lord Louis Mountbatten named viceroy of India
Sailed for the Virgin Islands to take part in fleet exercises	2 March
	12 March	Congress grants aid to Turkey and Greece under Truman Doctrine to defend against Communists
Sailed for Portsmouth, N.H.	15 March
	9 April	Tornadoes kill 169 in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas
	16 April	Ship explosions destroy Texas City
	31 May	Communists take control of government in Hungary
Captain F. W. Laing relieves Capt. Hannon	11 June
	26 July	National Security Act creates Department of Defense
	15 August	India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain
Crossed Equator at Longitude 80 West. 500 Polliwogs became Royal Shellbacks	September
	18 September	U.S. Air Force established
	14 October	Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier in Bell X-1
	2 November	Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose makes its only flight
	20 November	Princess Elizabeth marries Philip Mountbatten
	29 November	U.N. votes to partition Palestine
Sailed with 300 Army, Navy and Marine Corps passengers to Callao, Peru, for a five-day visit	1 December
	30 December	Communists take control of Rumania

Popular Songs of 1947

The Anniversary Song -- Dinah Shore Ballerina -- Vaughn Monroe Chi-Baba Chi-Baba -- Perry Como Heartaches -- Ted Weems Huggin' and Chalkin' -- Hoagy Carmichael Linda -- Ray Noble With Buddy Clark Mam'selle -- Art Lund Managua, Nicaragua -- Guy Lombardo Near You -- Francis Craig Open the Door, Richard -- Count Basie Peg O' My Heart -- Harmonicats Temptation -- Red Ingle White Christmas -- Bing Crosby R&B 1947 Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens -- Louis Jordan Boogie Woogie Blue Plate -- Louis Jordan I Want to Be Loved -- Savannah Churchill Jack, You're Dead -- Louis Jordan Old Maid Boogie -- Eddie Vinson Orchestra Snatch and Grab It -- Julie Lee & Her Boy Friends Let the Good Times Roll -- Louis Jordan Texas and Pacific -- Louis Jordan He's a Real Gone Guy -- Nellie Lutcher Hurry on Down -- Nellie Lutcher New Orleans Blues -- Johnny Moore's Three Blazers I Want to Be Loved -- Lionel Hampton Across the Valley From the Alamo -- Mills Brothers Open the Door, Richard -- Louis Jordan Open the Door, Richard -- Dusty Fletcher Open the Door, Richard --Jack McVea Hawk's Boogie -- Erskine Hawkins Since I Fell for You -- Paul Gayten Trio Ain't that Just Like a Woman -- Louis Jordan Open the Door, Richard -- Count Basie That's My Desire -- Frankie Laine Country 1947 Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette) -- Tex Williams It's a Sin -- Eddy Arnold So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed -- Merle Travis What Is Life Without Love -- Eddy Arnold I'll Hold You in My Heart -- Eddy Arnold Timtayshun -- Red Ingle and Jo Stafford New Jolie Blonde -- Red Foley Rainbow at Midnight -- Ernest Tubb New Pretty Blonde -- Moon Mullican Divorce Me C.O.D. -- Merle Travis Sugar Moon -- Bob Wills To My Sorrow -- Eddy Arnold Filipino Baby -- Ernest Tubb That's What I Like About the West -- Tex Williams Jole Blon -- Roy Acuff Down at the Roadside Inn -- Al Dexter Feudin' and Fightin' -- Dorothy Shay Never Trust a Woman -- Red Foley Bouquet of Roses -- Eddy Arnold Anytime -- Eddy Arnold Just a Little Lovin' -- Eddy Arnold Sports in 1947 Indianapolis 500: Mauri Rose Kentucky Derby: Jet Pilot Major League Baseball World Series: Yankees 4, Dodgers 3 Pro Football College All-Stars 16, Chicago Bears 0 NFL Championship: Chicago Cardinals 28, Philadelphia 21 College Football: Army 21, Navy 0 Rose Bowl: Illinois 45, UCLA 14 Cotton Bowl: Arkansas 0, Louisiana State 0 Orange Bowl: Rice 8, Tennessee 0 Sugar Bowl: Georgia 20, North Carolina 10 Pro Basketball Championship Series: Philadelphia 4, Chicago Stags 1 At the Movies On the Radio "Gentleman's Agreement" "The Bishop's Wife" "Crossfire" "Great Expectations" "Miracle on 34th Street" "Life With Father" "Kiss of Death" The Big Story Lassie My Friend Irma Adventures of Philip Marlowe You Are There You Bet Your Life

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USS Orion	1948 On This Date	Events Elsewhere Cold War begins
	30 January	Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
	23-25 February	Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia
	1 April	Soviets block highway, river and rail traffic into Berlin
	30 April	Burma and Ceylon granted independence. Organization of American States charter signed
	May	Submarines begin spy missions into Soviet waters
	14 May	Israel becomes a nation and is immediately attacked by Arab armies.
Captain J. F. Davidson relieves Capt. Laing	1 June
	21 June	Berlin Airlift begins
	26 July	Truman issues Executive Order desegregating the armed forces
	15 August	Republic of Korea is established south of 38th Parallel
	10 September	Axis Sally indicted
	13 September	Margaret Chase Smith becomes first woman to serve in both houses of Congress
	24 October	Term "Cold War" coined by Bernard Baruch
	2 November	Truman defeats Dewey
	23 December	Japanese war criminals hanged in Tokyo
	27 December	Indonesia becomes a nation

Popular Songs of 1948

Buttons and Bows -- Dinah Shore I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover -- Art Mooney Love Somebody -- Doris Day and Buddy Clark Manana (Is Soon Enough for Me) -- Peggy Lee Nature Boy -- Nat King Cole Now Is the Hour -- Bing Crosby A Tree in the Meadow -- Margaret Whiting Woody Woodpecker -- Kay Kyser You Call Everybody Darling -- Al Trace You Can't Be True, Dear -- Ken Griffin R&B 1948 Long Gone -- Sonny Thompson Good Rockin' Tonight -- Wynonie Harris Tomorrow Night -- Lonnie Johnson Pretty Mama Blues -- Ivory Joe Hunter I Can't Go Without You -- Bull Moose Jackson Messin' Around -- Memphis Slim My Heart Belongs to You -- Arbee Stidham Corn Bread -- Hal Singer Sextette Run, Joe -- Louis Jordan Blues After Hours -- Pee Wee Crayton Nature Boy -- King Cole All My Love Belongs to You -- Bull Moose Jackson Late Freight -- Sonny Thompson Send for Me If You Need Me -- The Ravens Am I Asking Too Much? -- Dinah Washington Hop, Skip and Jump -- Roy Milton King Size Papa -- Julie Lee Long About Midnight -- Roy Brown It's Too Soon to Know -- The Orioles It's Too Soon to Know -- Dinah Washington Country 1948 Bouquet of Roses -- Eddy Arnold Anytime -- Eddy Arnold Just a Little Lovin' -- Eddy Arnold Texarkana Baby -- Eddy Arnold One Has My Name -- Jimmy Wakely Humpty Dumpty Heart -- Hank Thompson Life Gets Tee-Jus Don't It? -- Carson Robison Sweeter Than the Flowers -- Moon Mullican Deck of Cards -- T. Texas Tyler My Daddy Is Only a Picture -- Eddy Arnold Tennessee Waltz -- Pee Wee King Suspicion -- Tex Williams Tennessee Saturday Night -- Red Foley Tennessee Waltz -- Cowboy Copas I Love You So Much It Hurts -- Jimmy Wakely Seaman Blues -- Ernest Tubb I'll Hold You in My Heart -- Eddy Arnold A Heart Full of Love -- Eddy Arnold Forever Is Ending Today -- Ernest Tubb Blue Shadows on the Trail -- Roy Rogers/Sons of Pioneers Cool Water -- Sons of the Pioneers Sports in 1948 Indianapolis 500: Mauri Rose Kentucky Derby: Citation Major League Baseball World Series: Cleveland 4, Boston (NL) 2 Pro Football Chicago Cardinals 28, College All-Stars 0 NFL Championship: Philadelphia 7, Chicago Cardinals 0 College Football: Army 21, Navy 21 Rose Bowl: Michigan 49, USC 0 Cotton Bowl: SMU 13, Penn State 13 Orange Bowl: Georgia Tech 20, Kansas 14 Sugar Bowl: Texas 27, Alabama 7 Pro Basketball Expansion: Fort Wayne Pistons, Minneapolis Lakers, Rochester Royals Championship Series: Baltimore Bullets 4, Philadelphia Warriors 2 At the Movies On the Radio "Mom and Dad" "Easter Parade" "The Pirate" "Hamlet" "Johnny Belinda" "The Red Shoes" "The Snake Pit" "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" "The Search" "I Remember Mama" "Key Largo" Life With Luigi Mr. Chameleon Our Miss Brooks Straight Arrow Popular Shows on Television Armchair Detective Mabel's Fables Masked Spooner Pantomime Quiz Tuesday Varieties What's the Name of That Song

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USS Orion Begins duty in Shit City	1949 On This Date	Events Elsewhere Spook mission to Murmansk turns ugly
	5 January	Truman calls his new administration the "Fair Deal"
	7 January	Cease-Fire in Palestine
	4 April	North Atlantic Treaty signed by 12 nations
Departs Balboa for Norfolk and two-month overhaul in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard	11 May
	12 May	Berlin Blockade ends
	29 June	U.S. occupation forces withdraw from South Korea
Captain L. D. McGregor relieves Capt. Davidson	1 July
	21 July	Senate approves North Atlanic Treaty (NATO)
	25 August	USS Cochino (SS-345) lost after battery explosion and fire in the Norwegian Sea. Crew rescued by USS Tusk (SS-426) in stormy seas but a civilian technician from Cochino and six Tusk crewmen are swept overboard and lost during rescue
	29 August	Soviets detonate their first atomic bomb
	13 September	Ladies Professional Golf Association is formed in New York City
	30 September	Berlin Airlift ends
	1 October	People's Republic of China formally proclaimed
	9 December	Chiang Kai-Shek takes Chinese Nationalist government to Formosa

Popular Songs of 1949

"A" You're Adorable -- Perry Como All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth --Spike Jones Careless Hands -- Mel Torme Cruising Down the River -- Russ Morgan Forever and Ever -- Russ Morgan I Can Dream, Can't I -- Andrews Sisters I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm -- Les Brown A Little Bird Told Me -- Evelyn Knight Mule Train -- Frankie Laine My Darling, My Darling -- Jo Stafford/Gordon McRae Powder Your Face With Sunshine -- Evelyn Knight Riders in the Sky -- Vaughn Monroe Slippin' Around -- Margaret Whiting/Jimmy Wakely Some Enchanted Evening -- Perry Como Someday -- Vaughn Monroe That Lucky Old Sun -- Frankie Laine You're Breaking My Heart -- Vic Damone R&B 1949 The Hucklebuck -- Paul Williams Trouble Blues -- Charles Brown Saturday Night Fish Fry -- Louis Jordan & Tympany Five Ain't Nobody's Business -- Jimmy Witherspoon Little Girl, Don't Cry -- Bull Moose Jackson Tell Me So -- The Orioles Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee -- Stick McHee & Buddies Hold Me, Baby -- Amos Milburn Chicken Shack Boogie -- Amos Milburn Boogie Chillin' -- John Lee Hooker Baby, Get Lost -- Dinah Washington Rockin' at Midnight -- Roy Brown Wrapped Up in a Dream -- Do Ray & Me Bewildered -- Amos Milburn All She Wants to Do Is Rock -- Wynonie Harris Bewildered -- Red Miller Trio Close Your Eyes -- Herb Lance Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee -- Wynonie Harris The Hucklebuck -- Roy Milton Confession Blues -- Maxine Trio Country 1949 Lovesick Blues -- Hank Williams Don't Rob Another Man's Castle -- Eddy Arnold I'm throwing Rice -- Eddy Arnold Slipping Around -- Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely Wedding Bells -- Hank Williams Candy Kisses -- George Morgan Why Don't You Haul Off? -- Wayne Raney Bouquet of Roses -- Eddy Arnold I Love You So Much It Hurts -- Jimmy Wakely Tennessee Saturday Night -- Red Foley The Echo of Your Footsteps -- Eddy Arnold One Has My Name -- Jimmy Wakely One Kiss Too Many -- Eddy Arnold Slipping Around -- Ernest Tubb Tennessee Border -- Red Foley A Heart Full of Love -- Eddy Arnold Blues Stay Away From Me -- Delmore Brothers I'm Bitin' My Fingernails -- Ernest Tubb and Andrews Sisters Please Don't Let Me Love You -- George Morgan Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello -- Ernest Tubb Sports in 1949 Indianapolis 500: Bill Holland Kentucky Derby: Ponder Major League Baseball World Series: Yankees 4, Dodgers 1 Pro Football Philadelphia 38, College All-Stars 0 NFL Championship: Philadelphia 14, Los Angeles Rams 0 College Football: Army 38, Navy 0 Rose Bowl: Northwestern 20, California 14 Cotton Bowl: SMU 21, Oregon 13 Orange Bowl: Texas 41, Georgia 28 Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14, North Carolina 6 Pro Basketball Expansion: Syracuse Nationals and Tri-Cities Blackhawks Championship Series: Minneapolis Lakers 4, Washington Capitols 2 At the Movies On the Radio "In the Good Old Summertime" "All the King's Men" "Battleground" "The Heiress" "A Letter to Three Wives" "Twelve O'Clock High" "Champion" "Sands of Iwo Jima" "Pinky" "Come to the Stable" Dragnet Father Knows Best Richard Diamond, Private Detective Screen Director's Playhouse Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar On Television Fred Waring Kukla, Fran and Ollie Life of Riley Texaco Star Theatre Time for Beany

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1950 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
	12 January	Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in a speech, leaves South Korea outside U.S. defense perimeter in Asia
	17 January	Brinks robbery in Boston
	21 January	Alger Hiss convicted of perjury
	9 February	Senator Joseph McCarthy attacks State Department for harboring Communists
	9 May	Truman announces military aid to French in Indochina
	25 June	North Korea invades South Korea
	27 June	Truman sends naval and air forces to assist South Korea and orders 7th Fleet to Formosa Strait
	30 June	Truman commits U.S. ground troops to Korea
Captain I. C. Eddy relieves Capt. McGregor	1 July
	8 July	MacArthur named Supreme Commander in Korea
	5 August	U.S. forces are pushed back to the Pusan perimeter
	15 September	U.S. Marines land at Inchon
	19 October	Chinese units cross Yalu River into Korea
	1 November	Assassination attempt on President Truman by Puerto Rican nationalists
	20 November	UN forces reach the Yalu River
	26 November	Chinese forces enter the war
	10 December	Ralph Bunche wins Nobel Peace Prize
	19 December	Eisenhower named NATO Supreme Commander

Popular Songs of 1950

Goodnight, Irene -- Weavers and Gordon Jenkins Mona Lisa -- Nat King Cole Third Man Theme -- Anton Karas (also by Guy Lombardo) Sam's Song -- Gary Crosby and Friend (Bing) Play a Simple Melody -- Gary Crosby and Friend (Bing) Music! Music! Music! -- Teresa Brewer Chattanoogie Shoe-Shine Boy -- Red Foley Harbor Lights -- Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra It Isn't Fair -- Sammy Kaye and Don Cornell If I Knew You Were Comin'  I'd've Baked a Cake  --------------------------------------------------------- -- Eileen Barton Bonaparte's Retreat -- Kay Starr Tzena, Tzena, Tzena -- Weavers and Gordon Jenkins There's No Tomorrow -- Tony Martin The Thing -- Phil Harris Sentimental Me -- Ames Brothers I Wanna Be Loved -- The Andrews Sisters Tennessee Waltz -- Patti Page I Can Dream, Can't I -- Andrews Sisters I'll Never Be Free -- Kay Starr and Tennessee Ernie All My Love -- Patti Page My Foolish Heart -- Gordon Jenkins Rag Mop -- Ames Brothers Bewitched -- Bill Snyder (Also by Gordon Jenkins) Hoop-Dee-Doo -- Perry Como Can Anyone Explain? -- Ames Brothers My Foolish Heart -- Billy Eckstine Dear Hearts and Gentle People -- Bing Crosby The Cry of the Wild Goose -- Frankie Laine Rhythm and Blues Hits in 1950 Pink Champagne -- Joe Liggins Double Crossing Blues -- Little Esther/Mel Walker/Johnny Otis I Need You So -- Ivory Joe Hunter Hard Luck Blues -- Roy Brown Cupid's Boogie -- Little Esther, Mel Walker and Johnny Otis I Almost Lost My Mind -- Ivory Joe Hunter Well, Oh Well -- Tiny Bradshaw Blue Light Boogie -- Louis Jordan For You My Love -- Larry Darnell Mistrustin' Blues -- Little Esther, Mel Walker and Johnny Otis Everyday I Have the Blues -- Lowell Fulson Blue Shadows -- Lowell Fulson Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere -- Joe Morris Why Do Things Happen to Me? -- Roy Hawkins Mona Lisa -- Nat King Cole I Wanna Be Loved -- Dinah Washington Please Send Me Someone to Love -- Percy Mayfield I Love My Baby -- Larry Darnell Saturday Night Fish Fry -- Louis Jordan Cry, Cry, Cry -- Ed Wiley Teardrops From My Eyes -- Ruth Brown Love Don't Love Nobody -- Roy Brown The Fat Man -- Fats Domino My Baby's Gone -- Charles Brown Information Blues -- Roy Milton I'm Yours to Keep -- Herb Fisher It Isn't Fair -- Dinah Washington I'll Get Along Somehow -- Larry Darnell Bad, Bad Whiskey -- Amos Milburn Deceivin' Blues -- Little Esther, Mel Walker and Johnny Otis Country Hits in 1950 I'm Movin' On -- Hank Snow Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy -- Red Foley I'll Sail My Ship Alone -- Moon Mullican Why Don't You Love Me? -- Hank Williams Long Gone Lonesome Blues -- Hank Williams Goodnight Irene -- Red Foley and Ernest Tubb Cuddle Buggin' Baby -- Eddy Arnold (Remember Me) I'm the One -- Stuart Hamblen Birmingham Bounce -- Red Foley Lovebug Itch -- Eddy Arnold Mississippi -- Red Foley Throw Your Love My Way -- Ernest Tubb I Love You Because -- Ernest Tubb Cincinnati Dancing Pig -- Red Foley I'll Never Be Free -- Tennessee Ernie and Kay Starr Let's Go to Church -- Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely Enclosed one Broken Heart -- Eddy Arnold Angel With the Dirty Face -- Eddy Arnold Why Should I Cry Over You? -- Eddy Arnold Slipping Around -- Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely Sports in 1950 Indianapolis 500: Johnnie Parsons Kentucky Derby: Middleground Major League Baseball World Series: Yankees 4, Phillies 0 Pro Football Expansion: Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers College All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 NFL Championship: Cleveland Browns 30, Los Angeles 28 College Football: Navy 14, Army 2 Rose Bowl: Ohio State 17, California 14 Cotton Bowl: Rice 27, North Carolina 13 Orange Bowl: Santa Clara 21, Kentucky 13 Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 35, LSU 0 Pro Basketball Championship Series: Minneapolis Lakers 4, Syracuse 2 At the Movies On Television "Cinderella" "Annie Get Your Gun" "Destination Moon" "All About Eve" "Born Yesterday" "Father of the Bride" "King Solomon's Mines" "Sunset Boulevard" "Harvey" "The Third Man" "The Asphalt Jungle" "Broken Arrow" "Mister 880" Texaco Star Theatre Fireside Theatre Philco TV Playhouse Your Show of Shows Colgate Comedy Hour Gillette Cavalcade of Stars Lone Ranger Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts Hopalong Cassidy I Remember Mama Robert Montgomery Presents Martin Lane, Private Eye Man Against Crime Kraft Television Theatre Toast of the Town

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1951 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
	4 January	North Korean and Chinese forces take Seoul
	11 April	Truman dismisses MacArthur. Gen. Matthew Ridgeway named Commander of UN Forces in Korea
	14 June	UNIVAC introduced
Capt. E. G. Porter Jr. relieves Capt. Eddy	23 June
	20 July	King Abdullah of Jordan assassinated
Receives commendation from ComSubLant for her outstanding performance during fiscal year 1951	6 August
	8 September	Japanese peace treaty signed in San Francisco
Departs for refresher training following overhaul	3 October
Returns to Norfolk	18 November

Popular Songs of 1951

Too Young -- Nat King Cole Because of You -- Tony Bennett How High the Moon -- Les Paul and Mary Ford Come On-a My House -- Rosemary Clooney Be My Love -- Mario Lanza On Top of Old Smoky -- Weavers With Terry Gilkyson Cold, Cold Heart -- Tony Bennett If -- Perry Como Loveliest Night of the Year -- Mario Lanza Tennessee Waltz -- Patti Page Jezebel -- Frankie Laine I Get Ideas -- Tony Martin Mockin' Bird Hill -- Les Paul & Mary Ford Mockin' Bird Hill -- Patti Page My Heart Cries for You -- Guy Mitchell (It's No) Sin -- Eddy Howard Sound Off -- Vaughn Monroe Sweet Violets -- Dinah Shore World Is Waiting for the Sunrise -- Les Paul & Mary Ford My Truly, Truly Fair -- Guy Mitchell Sin -- Four Aces Aba Daba Honeymoon--Debbie Reynolds/Carleton Carpenter Rose, Rose I Love You -- Frankie Laine Down Yonder -- Del Wood I Apologize -- Billy Eckstine Would I Love You -- Patti Page You're Just in Love-- Perry Como Undecided -- Ames Brothers The Thing -- Phil Harris Because of You -- Les Baxter R&B 1951 Sixty Minute Man -- Dominoes Black Night -- Charles Brown Teardrops From My Eyes -- Ruth Brown Chains of Love -- Joe Turner Don't You Know I Love You -- Clovers Please Send Me Someone to Love -- Percy Mayfield I'm Waiting Just for You -- Lucky Millinder Glory of Love -- Five Keys Rocket 88 -- Jackie Brenston Rockin' Blues -- Mel Walker & Johnny Otis Bad, Bad Whiskey -- Amos Milburn Fool, Fool, Fool -- Clovers Lost Love -- Percy Mayfield I'm in the Mood -- John Lee Hooker I Got Loaded -- Peppermint Harris Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere -- Joe Morris Too Young -- Nat King Cole Red's Boogie -- Piano Red Seven Long Days -- Charles Brown Do Something for Me -- Dominoes Don't Take Your Love From Me -- Joe Morris I Apologize -- Billy Eckstine Tend to Your Business -- James Wayne Smooth Sailing -- Ella Fitzgerald I Will Wait -- Four Buddies Because of You -- Tab Smith Gee Baby -- Mel Walker & Johnny Otis "T" 99 Blues -- Jimmy Nelson Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand -- Ray Charles Flamingo -- Earl Bostic Country 1951 Cold, Cold Heart -- Hank Williams I Want to Be With You Always -- Lefty Frizzell Always Late -- Lefty Frizzell Rhumba Boogie -- Hank Snow I Wanna Play House With You -- Eddy Arnold There's Been a Change in Me -- Eddy Arnold Shotgun Boogie -- Tennessee Ernie Hey, Good Lookin' -- Hank Williams Mom and Dad's Waltz -- Lefty Frizzell Golden Rocket -- Hank Snow I'm Movin' On -- Hank Snow Kentucky Waltz -- Eddy Arnold Slow Poke -- Pee Wee King Let's Live a Little -- Carl Smith I Love You a Thousand Ways -- Lefty Frizzell Poison Love -- Johnnie and Jack Down the Trail of Aching Hearts -- Hank Snow Bluebird Island -- Hank Snow Peace in the Valley-- Red Foley Mister Moon -- Carl Smith Sports in 1951 Indianapolis 500: Lee Wallard Kentucky Derby: Count Turf Major League Baseball World Series: Yankees 4, Giants 2 Pro Football Cleveland 33, College All-Stars 0 NFL Championship: Los Angeles 24, Cleveland 17 College Football: Navy 42, Army 7 Rose Bowl: Michigan 14, California 6 Cotton Bowl: Tennessee 20, Texas 14 Orange Bowl: Clemson 15, Miami (FL) 14 Sugar Bowl: Kentucky 13, Oklahoma 7 Pro Basketball Tri-Cities Blackhawks move to Milwaukee, change name to Hawks Championship Series: Rochester 4, New York 3 Muncie Central wins its third Indiana High School State Basketball Championship by defeating Evansville Reitz, 60-58 At the Movies On Television "An American in Paris" "Decision Before Dawn" "A Place in the Sun" "Quo Vadis?" "A Streetcar Named Desire" "The African Queen" "Death of a Salesman" "Detective Story" Talent Scouts Texaco Star Theatre I Love Lucy Red Skelton Show Colgate Comedy Hour Arthur Godfrey and Friends Fireside Theatre Your Show of Shows Jack Benny Show You Bet Your Life Mama Philco TV Playhouse Amos 'N Andy Gangbusters Big Town

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1952 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
Commander D. G. Baer relieves Capt. Porter	3 January
Captain C. L. Murphy relieves Commander Baer	17 January
	6 February	King George VI dies, daughter becomes Elizabeth II
	28 April	Ike relieved as NATO commander to run for president
	June	U.S. Navy begins laying Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) on ocean floors to monitor Russian Submarine movements
	23 July	Military coup in Egypt dumps King Farouk
	1 November	U.S. detonates H-bomb at Eniwetok

Popular Songs of 1952

Blue Tango -- Leroy Anderson and His Orchestra Wheel of Fortune -- Kay Starr Cry -- Johnny Ray You Belong to Me -- Jo Stafford Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart -- Vera Lynn I Went to Your Wedding -- Patti Page Half as Much -- Rosemary Clooney Wish You Were Here -- Eddie Fisher Here in My Heart -- Al Martino Delicado -- Percy Faith and His Orchestra Kiss of Fire -- Georgia Gibbs Any Time -- Eddie Fisher Tell Me Why -- Four Aces Blacksmith Blues -- Ella Mae Morse Jambalaya -- Jo Stafford Botch-a-Me -- Rosemary Clooney A Guy Is a Guy -- Doris Day Little White Cloud That Cried -- Johnnie Ray High Noon -- Frankie Laine I'm Yours -- Eddie Fisher Glow-Worm -- Mills Brothers It's in the Book -- Johnny Standley Slow Poke -- Pee Wee King Walkin' My Baby Back Home -- Johnnie Ray Meet Mr. Callaghan -- Les Paul I'm Yours -- Don Cornell I'll Walk Alone -- Don Cornell Tell Me Why -- Eddie Fisher Trying -- Hilltoppers Please, Mr. Sun -- Johnnie Ray R&B 1952 Lawdy, Miss Clawdy -- Lloyd Price Have Mercy Baby -- Dominoes Five, Ten, Fifteen Hours -- Ruth Brown Goin' Home -- Fats Domino Night Train -- Jimmy Forrest My Song -- Johnny Ace One Mint Julep -- Clovers Ting a Ling -- Clovers Three O'clock Blues -- B. B. King Juke -- Little Walter No More Doggin' -- Roscoe Gordon You Know I Love You -- B. B. King Mary Jo -- Four Blazes Booted -- Roscoe Gordon Five Long Years -- Eddie Boyd Heavenly Father -- Edna McGriff Call Operator 210 -- Floyd Dixon Flamingo -- Earl Bostic Cry -- Johnnie Ray Moody Mood for Love -- King Pleasure Middle of the Night -- Clovers Best Wishes -- Roy Milton I'll Drown in My Tears -- Sonny Thompson Wheel of Fortune-- Sunny Gale Daddy, Daddy -- Ruth Brown So Tired -- Roy Milton Easy, Easy Baby -- Varetta Dillard I'm Gonna Play the Honky Tonks -- Marie Adams That's What You're Doing to Me -- Dominoes Fool, Fool, Fool -- Clovers Country 1952 Wild Side of Life -- Hank Thompson Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way -- Carl Smith Jambalaya-- Hank Williams It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels -- Kitty Wells Slow Poke -- Pee Wee King Indian Love Call -- Slim Whitman Wonderin' -- Webb Pierce Don't Just Stand There -- Carl Smith Almost -- George Morgan Give Me More, More, More of Your Kisses -- Lefty Frizzell Half as Much -- Hank Williams Easy on the Eyes -- Eddy Arnold Gold Rush Is Over -- Hank Snow Are You Teasing Me -- Carl Smith Full Time Job -- Eddy Arnold Missing in Action -- Ernest Tubb Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart -- Hank Thompson Too Old to Cut the Mustard -- Red Foley and Ernest Tubb Don't Stay Away -- Lefty Frizzell That Heart Belongs to Me -- Webb Pierce Sports in 1952 Indianapolis 500: Troy Ruttman Kentucky Derby: Hill Gail Major League Baseball World Series: Yankees 4, Dodgers 3 Pro Football L.A. Rams 10, College All-Stars 7 NFL Championship: Detroit 17, Cleveland 7 College Football: Navy 7, Army 0 Rose Bowl: Illinois 40, Stanford 7 Cotton Bowl: Kentucky 20, Texas Christian 7 Orange Bowl: Georgia Tech 17, Baylor 14 Sugar Bowl: Maryland 28, Tennessee 13 Pro Basketball Championship Series: Minneapolis Lakers 4, New York 3 Muncie Central wins its fourth Indiana High School State Basketball Championship by defeating Indianapolis Tech, 68-49 At the Movies On Television "The Greatest Show on Earth" "High Noon" "Ivanhoe" "Moulin Rouge" "The Quiet Man" "Viva Zapata" "Come Back, Little Sheba" "Singin' in the Rain" I Love Lucy Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts Arthur Godfrey and His Friends Dragnet Texaco Star Theatre Buick Circus Hour Colgate Comedy Hour Gangbusters You Bet Your Life Fireside Theatre Red Buttons Show Jack Benny Show Life With Luigi Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts Goodyear TV Playhouse Victory at Sea

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1953 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
Departs Norfolk for Virgin Islands to take part in Operation Springboard	5 January
	14 January	Marshal Tito elected first president of Yugoslavia
	20 January	Eisenhower inaugurated
Returns to Norfolk	19 February
	5 March	Stalin dies. Malenkov becomes Soviet premier
	12 March	Department of Health, Education and Welfare created
	26 March	Salk polio vaccine announced
Captain W. R. Laugon relieves Capt. Murphy	9 April
	10 April	Dag Hammarskjold began term as UN Secretary-General
	23 April	Army-McCarthy hearings begin
	29 May	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay reach top of Mount Everest
	9 June	Tornado strikes Worcester, Mass., killing about 100
	17 June	Uprising begins against Communist rule in East Berlin
	19 June	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing
	27 July	Korean armistice signed at Panmunjon
	19-22 August	Mossadegh ousted in Iran; Shah Pahlevi returns
	20 August	Moscow announces hydrogen bomb explosion
	12 September	Khrushchev takes power in the Soviet Union

Popular Songs of 1953

Song From Moulin Rouge -- Percy Faith Vaya Con Dios -- Les Paul and Mary Ford Doggie in the Window -- Patti Page I'm Walking Behind You -- Eddie Fisher You, You, You -- Ames Brothers Till I Waltz Again With You -- Teresa Brewer April in Portugal -- Les Baxter No Other Love -- Perry Como Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes -- Perry Como I Believe -- Frankie Laine Oh -- Pee Wee Hunt Ebb Tide -- Frank Chacksfield Pretend -- Nat King Cole Ruby -- Richard Hayman St. George and the Dragonet -- Stan Freberg P.S. I Love You -- Hilltoppers Tell Me You're Mine -- Gaylords Eh Cumpari -- Julius La Rosa Rags to Riches -- Tony Bennett Anna -- Silvana Mangano Say You're Mine Again -- Perry Como Dragnet -- Ray Anthony Tell Me a Story -- Frankie Laine and Jimmy Boyd Crying in the Chapel -- June Valli Why Don't You Believe Me -- Joni James Your Cheatin' Heart -- Joni James Limelight (Terry's Theme) -- Frank Chacksfield With These Hands -- Eddie Fisher C'Est Si Bon -- Eartha Kitt Have You Heard -- Joni James R&B 1953 (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean -- Ruth Brown Shake a Hand -- Faye Adams Hound Dog -- Willie Mae Thornton Crying in the Chapel -- Orioles The Clock -- Johnny Ace I Don't Know -- Willie Mabon Good Lovin' -- Clovers Baby, Don't Do It -- Five Royales Help Me Somebody -- Five Royales Please Love Me -- B. B. King Going to the River -- Fats Domino Crawlin' -- Clovers Let Me Go Home, Whiskey -- Amos Milburn I Wanna Know -- Du Droppers I'm Mad -- Willie Mabon Too Much Lovin' -- Five Royales Soft -- Tiny Bradshaw Red Top -- King Pleasure Cross My Heart -- Johnny Ace Don't Deceive Me -- Chuck Willis Honey Hush -- Joe Turner Yes, I Know -- Linda Hayes Please Don't Leave Me -- Fats Domino Wild, Wild Young Men -- Ruth Brown One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer -- Amos Milburn Woke Up This Morning -- B. B. King Mercy, Mr. Percy -- Varetta Dillard Dream Girl -- Jesse and Marvin Money Honey -- Clyde McPhatter I Found Out -- Du Droppers Country 1953 Kaw-Liga -- Hank Williams Your Cheating Heart -- Hank Williams No Help Wanted -- Carlisles Dear John Letter -- Jean Shepard and Felin Husky Hey, Joe -- Carl Smith Mexican Joe -- Jim Reeves I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know -- Davis Sisters It's Been So Long -- Webb Pierce Take These Chains From My Heart -- Hank Williams Fool Such as I -- Hank Snow Eddy's Song -- Eddy Arnold Last Waltz -- Webb Pierce Rub-a-Dub-Dub -- Hank Thompson I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive -- Hank Williams Bumming Around -- T. Texas Tyler That Hound Dog in the Window -- Homer and Jethro Crying in the Chapel -- Rex Allen Jambalaya -- Hank Williams Death of Hank Williams -- Jack Cardwell Caribbean -- Mitchell Torok Sports in 1953 Indianapolis 500: Bill Vukovich Kentucky Derby: Dark Star Major League Baseball Boston Braves move to Milwaukee World Series: Yankees 4, Dodgers 2 Pro Football Expansion: Baltimore Colts Detroit 24, College All-Stars 10 NFL Championship: Detroit 17, Cleveland 16 College Football: Army 20, Navy 7 Rose Bowl: USC 7, Wisconsin 0 Cotton Bowl: Texas 16, Tennessee 0 Orange Bowl: Alabama 61, Syracuse 6 Sugar Bowl: Georgia Tech 24, Mississippi 7 Pro Basketball Championship Series: Minneapolis Lakers 4, New York 1 At the Movies On Television "Peter Pan" "The Robe" "House of Wax" "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" "From Here to Eternity" "Julius Ceasar" "Roman Holiday" "Shane" "Stalag 17" "Mogambo" "Lily" "The Moon Is Blue" "Hondo" I Love Lucy Dragnet Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts You Bet Your Life The Chevy Show (Bob Hope) The Milton Berle Show Arthur Godfrey and His Friends The Ford Show Jackie Gleason Show Fireside Theatre Colgate Comedy Hour This Is Your Life Red Buttons Show Life of Riley Our Miss Brooks

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1954 On This Date	Events Elsewhere Navy goes nuclear
	21 January	First nuke, USS Nautilus (SSN-571) launched
	1 March	Puerto Rican nationalists fire from the spectators' gallery wounding five congressmen
	7 May	Dien Bien Phu, French Indochina, falls to the Vietminh
Captain W. T. Kinsella relieves Capt. Laugon	8 May
	17 May	Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education bans segregation in public schools
	20 July	French sign peace agreement in Indochina
Leaves Norfolk for retraining in the Caribbean	26 July
Arrives in Narragansett Bay, R.I., for further retraining	14 August
Sails for New London, Connecticut.	27 August
Returns to Rhode Island	30 August
Anchored in Narragansett Bay, Orion narrowly averts being pushed aground on Gould Island by high winds and is able to get underway and leave the harbor	31 August	Hurricane Carol strikes the southern coast of New England
	8 September	SEATO treaty signed by eight nations in Manila

Popular Songs of 1954

Little Things Mean a Lot -- Kitty Kallen Wanted -- Perry Como Hey There -- Rosemary Clooney Sh-Boom -- Crew Cuts Make Love to Me -- Jo Stafford Oh, My Papa -- Eddie Fisher I Get So Lonely -- Four Knights Three Coins in the Fountain -- Four Aces Secret Love -- Doris Day Hernando's Hideaway -- Archie Bleyer Young at Heart -- Frank sinatra This Ole House -- Rosemary Clooney I Need You Now -- Eddie Fisher Cross Over the Bridge -- Patti Page Little Shoemaker -- Gaylords That's Amore -- Dean Martin Happy Wanderer -- Frank Weir Answer Me, My Love -- Nat King Cole Stranger in Paradise -- Tony Bennett If I Give My Heart to You -- Doris Day If You Love Me (Really Love Me) -- Kay Starr Skokiaan -- Ralph Marterie Hold My Hand -- Don Cornell Changing Partners -- Patti Page Papa Loves Mambo -- Perry Como Shake, Rattle and Roll -- Bill Haley and His Comets Rags to Riches -- Tony Bennett In the Chapel in the Moonlight -- Kitty Kallen Stranger in Paradise -- Four Aces Here -- Tony Martin R&B 1954 Work With Me Annie -- Midnighters Honey Love -- Drifters What a Dream -- Ruth Brown You'll Never Walk Alone -- Roy Hamilton Shake, Rattle and Roll -- Joe Turner The Things That I Used to Do -- Guitar Slim Hurts Me to My Heart -- Faye Adams Annie Had a Baby -- Midnighters Lovey Dovey -- Clovers Sexy Ways -- Midnighters Money Honey -- Drifters Sh-Boom -- Chords I Didn't Want to Do It -- Spiders I'll Be True -- Faye Adams Honey Hush -- Joe Turner Just Make Love to Me -- Muddy Waters Little Mama -- Clovers Such a Night -- Drifters You're Still My Baby -- Chuck Willis Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight -- Spaniels Ebb Tide -- Roy Hamilton I Don't Hurt Anymore -- Dinah Washington Saving My Love for You -- Johnny Ace Mambo Baby -- Ruth Brown Hearts of Stone -- Charms I've Got My Eyes on You -- Clovers You're So Fine -- Little Walter Gee -- Crows I'm Just Your Fool -- Buddy Johnson If I Loved You -- Roy Hamilton Country 1954 I Don't Hurt Anymore -- Hank Snow One By One -- Kitty Wells and Red Foley Slowly -- Webb Pierce Even Tho -- Webb Pierce I Really Don't Want to Know -- Eddy Arnold More and More -- Webb Pierce You Better Not Do That -- Tommy Collins There Stands the Glass -- Webb Pierce Rose Marie -- Slim Whitman I'll Be There -- Ray Price Bimbo -- Jim Reeves This Is the Thanks I Get -- Eddy Arnold This Ole House -- Stuart Hamblen Sparkling Brown Eyes -- Webb Pierce Looking Back to See -- Goldie Hill and Justin Tubb Secret Love -- Slim Whitman Back Up Buddy -- Carl Smith Wake Up Irene -- Hank Thompson Release Me -- Ray Price Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight -- Johnnie and Jack Sports in 1954 Indianapolis 500: Bill Vukovich Kentucky Derby: Determine Major League Baseball Move: St. Louis Browns to Baltimore, name changed to Orioles World Series: Giants 4, Indians 0 Pro Football Detroit 31, College All-Stars 6 NFL Championship: Cleveland 56, Detroit 10 College Football: Navy 27, Army 20 Rose Bowl: Michigan State 28, UCLA 20 Cotton Bowl: Rice 28, Alabama 6 Orange Bowl: Oklahoma 7, Maryland 0 Sugar Bowl: Georgia Tech 42, West Virginia 19 Pro Basketball Championship Series: Minneapolis Lakers 4, Syracuse 3 Muncie Central loses to Milan, 32-30, in the Indiana High School State Basketball Tourney championship. This game will be the inspiration for the movie "Hoosiers" (1986)   At the Movies On Television "Rear Window" "The Caine Mutiny" "On the Waterfront" "A Star Is Born" "King Richard and the Crusaders" "The Country Girl" "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" "Three Coins in the Fountain" "Magnificent Obsession" "The High and the Mighty" "The Barefoot Contessa" I Love Lucy Jackie Gleason Show Dragnet You Bet Your Life Toast of the Town Disneyland The Chevy Show (Bob Hope) Jack Benny Show Martha Raye Show George Gobel Show Ford Theatre December Bride Buick-Berle Show This Is Your Life I've Got a Secret

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USS Orion (AS-18) Named Outstanding Submarine Tender in the Atlantic Fleet	1955 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
	8 February	Bulganin replaces Malenkov as Soviet premier
ComSubLant Adminstrative Inspection. Orion awarded Navy "E"	28 April
	June	Greatest class in the history of Muncie Central High School graduates
Captain R. Kefauver relieves Capt. Kinsella	8 July
	17 July	Disneyland opens in Anaheim
	28 August	Emmett Till murdered in Mississippi
	19 September	Coup deposes Juan Peron in Argentina
	24 September	President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack in Denver
	5 December	AFL and CIO merge. City bus boycott begins in Montgomery, Alabama

Popular Songs of 1955

Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White -- Perez Prado Rock Around the Clock -- Bill Haley and His Comets Yellow Rose of Texas -- Mitch Miller Autumn Leaves -- Roger Williams Unchained Melody -- Les Baxter Ballad of Davy Crockett -- Bill Hayes Love Is a Many Splendored Thing -- Four Aces Sincerely -- McGuire Sisters Ain't That a Shame -- Pat Boone Dance With Me Henry -- Georgia Gibbs Crazy Otto Medley -- Johnny Maddox Melody of Love -- Billy Vaughn Sixteen Tons -- Tennessee Ernie Ford Learnin' the Blues -- Frank Sinatra Hearts of Stone -- Fontane Sisters Tweedle Dee -- Georgia Gibbs Moments to Remember -- Four Lads Mr. Sandman -- Chordettes Let Me Go Lover -- Joan Weber A Blossom Fell -- Nat King Cole Unchained Melody -- Al Hibler Ballad of Davy Crockett -- Fess Parker Honey Babe -- Art Mooney Ballad of Davy Crockett -- Tennessee Ernie Ford Ko Ko Mo -- Perry Como Naughty Lady of Shady Lane -- Ames Brothers Hard to Get -- Giselle MacKenzie That's All I Want From You -- Jaye P. Morgan Only You -- Platters It's a Sin to Tell a Lie -- Somethin' Smith & The Redheads R&B 1955 Pledging My Love -- Johnny Ace Ain't That a Shame -- Fats Domino Maybellene -- Chuck Berry Earth Angel -- Penguins I've Got a Woman -- Ray Charles Wallflower -- Etta James Only You -- Platters My Babe -- Little Walter Sincerely -- Moonglows Unchained Melody -- Roy Hamilton Hearts of Stone -- Charms Tweedle Dee -- LaVern Baker Every Day -- Count Basie It's Love Baby -- Louis Brooks Flip, Flop and Fly -- Joe Turner Don't Be Angry -- Nappy Brown Bo Diddley -- Bo Diddley What'Cha Gonna Do -- Drifters Unchained Melody -- Al Hibbler Story Untold -- Nutmegs Soldier Boy -- Four Fellows I Hear You Knocking -- Smiley Lewis A Fool for You -- Ray Charles At My Front Door -- El Dorados All by Myself -- Fats Domino Country 1955 In the Jailhouse Now -- Webb Pierce Making Believe -- Kitty Wells I Don't Care -- Webb Pierce Loose Talk -- Carl Smith Satisfied Mind -- Porter Wagoner Cattle Call -- Eddy Arnold & Hugo Winterhalter Live Fast, Love Hard and Die Young -- Faron Young If You Ain't Lovin' -- Faron Young Yellow Roses -- Hank Snow I've Been Thinking -- Eddy Arnold More and More -- Webb Pierce Love, Love, Love -- Webb Pierce Satisfied Mind -- Red & Betty Foley Ballad of Davy Crockett -- Tennessee Ernie Just Call Me Lonesome -- Eddy Arnold There She Goes -- Carl Smith Are You Mine? -- Ginny Wright & Tom Tall Satisfied Mind -- Jean Shepard Let Me Go, Lover -- Hank Snow All Right -- Faron Young Sports in 1955 Indianapolis 500: Bob Sweikert Kentucky Derby: Swaps Major League Baseball Philadelphia Athletics move to Kansas City World Series: Dodgers 4, Yankees 3 Pro Football College All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 NFL Championship: Cleveland 38, Los Angeles 14 College Football: Army 14, Navy 6 Rose Bowl: Ohio State 20, USC 7 Cotton Bowl: Georgia Tech 14, Arkansas 6 Orange Bowl: Duke 34, Nebraska 7 Sugar Bowl: Navy 21, Mississippi 0 Pro Basketball Milwaukee Hawks move to St. Louis Championship Series: Syracuse 4, Fort Wayne Pistons 3 At the Movies On Television "Lady and the Tramp" "Mister Roberts" "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" "Picnic" "The Rose Tattoo" "Marty" "Love Me or Leave Me" "East of Eden" "The Man With the Golden Arm" "Bad Day at Black Rock" "I'll Cry Tomorrow" "Rebel Without a Cause" $64,000 Question I Love Lucy Ed Sullivan Show Disneyland Jack Benny Show December Bride You Bet Your Life Dragnet The Millionaire I've Got a Secret General Electric Theatre Private Secretary Ford Theatre Red Skelton Show George Gobel Show

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USS Orion (AS-18) Adds hashmark to Navy "E"	1956 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
Participates in Operation Springboard from St. Thomas, V.I. Visits Fort-de-France, Martinique, San Juan and Havana	2 February to 24 March
	25 February	Khrushchev denounces Stalin
ComSubLant Administrative Inspection. Orion again awarded Navy "E"	11 May
USS Barbero (SSG-317), first guided missile sub in the Atlantic Fleet, joins Subron 6	20 May
	21 May	First aerial H-bomb tested at Bikini
	23 June	Nasser elected president of Egypt
	28-30 June	Workers uprising crushed in Poznan, Poland
	29 June	Interstate highway system funding authorized
	25 July	Andrea Doria and Stockholm collide off Nantucket
	26 July	Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal
Captain C. W. Nimitz Jr. relieves Capt. Kefauver	11 August
	9 September	Elvis appears on Ed Sullivan Show
63-foot, wooden-hulled, sound analysis boat "Dessi Belle" joins Subron 6	October
	23 October	Revolt begins in Hungary
	29 October	Israel attacks Sinai and drives toward Suez
	4 November	Soviets bring in tanks to crush revolt in Hungary
	5 November	British and French invade Egypt at Port Said
	6 November	British, French, and Israeli forces halt advance
	15 November	Hungarian Revolt ends
Conducts Advanced Underwater Weapons tests at sea with USS Pompon (SS-276), USS Torsk (SS-423), and USS Kittiwake (ASR-13). Orion fires six shots across bow of West German merchant ship to warn it away from area	19-21 November

Popular Songs of 1956

Heartbreak Hotel -- Elvis Presley Don't Be Cruel -- Elvis Presley Lisbon Antigua -- Nelson Riddle My Prayer -- Platters Wayward Wind -- Gogi Grant Hound Dog -- Elvis Presley Poor People of Paris -- Les Baxter Whatever Will Be, Will Be -- Doris Day Memories Are Made of This -- Dean Martin Rock and Roll Waltz -- Kay Starr Moonglow/Theme From Picnic -- Morris Stoloff The Great Pretender -- Platters I Almost Lost My Mind -- Pat Boone I Want You, I Need You, I Love You -- Elvis Presley Love Me Tender -- Elvis Presley Hot Diggity -- Perry Como Canadian Sunset -- Eddie Heywood and Hugo Winterhalter Blue Suede Shoes -- Carl Perkins Green Door -- Jim Lowe No, Not Much -- Four Lads Honky Tonk -- Bill Doggett Sixteen Tons -- Tennessee Ernie Ford Just Walking in the Rain -- Johnny Ray Allegheny Moon -- Patti Page I'm in Love Again -- Fats Domino Tonight You Belong to Me -- Patience & Prudence Be-Bop-a-Lula -- Gene Vincent Why Do Fools Fall in Love -- Teenagers Standing on the Corner -- Four Lads The Flying Saucer -- Buchanan & Goodman Moonglow/Theme From Picnic -- George Cates Ivory Tower -- Cathy Carr See You Later Alligator -- Bill Haley & His Comets I'll Be Home -- Pat Boone On the Street Where You Live -- Vic Damone Magic Touch -- Platters Born to Be With You -- Chordettes Band of Gold -- Don Cherry More -- Perry Como Singing the Blues -- Guy Mitchell Blueberry Hill -- Fats Domino The Fool -- Sanford Clark Happy Whistler -- Don Robertson True Love -- Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly Long Tall Sally -- Little Richard Sweet Old Fashioned Girl -- Teresa Brewer Transfusion -- Nervous Norvus It Only Hurts for a Little While -- Ames Brothers A Tear Fell -- Teresa Brewer Rock Island Line -- Lonnie Donegan R&B 1956 Honky Tonk -- Bill Doggett I'm in Love Again -- Fats Domino Long Tall Sally -- Little Richard Fever -- Little Willie John The Great Pretender -- Platters Why Do Fools Fall in Love -- Teenagers I Want You to Be My Girl -- Teenagers My Prayer -- Platters Blue Suede Shoes -- Carl Perkins Let the Good Times Roll -- Shirley & Lee Rip It Up -- Little Richard Tutti-Frutti -- Little Richard Drown in My Own Tears -- Ray Charles Don't Be Cruel -- Elvis Presley Treasure of Love -- Clyde McPhatter Eddie My Love -- Teen Queens Please, Please, Please -- James Brown Speedo -- Cadillacs Heartbreak Hotel -- Elvis Presley It's Too Late -- Chuck Willis Hound Dog -- Elvis Presley In the Still of the Night -- Five Satins Seven Days -- Clyde McPhatter The Magic Touch -- Platters Blueberry Hill -- Fats Domino Corrine Corrina -- Joe Turner My Blue Heaven -- Fats Domino Stranded in the Jungle -- Cadets Need Your Love So Bad -- Little Willie John Slippin' and Slidin' -- Little Richard Bo Weevil -- Fats Domino A Casual Look -- Six Teens The Flying Saucer -- Buchanan & Goodman Hallelujah I Love Her So -- Ray Charles Devil or Angel -- Clovers I Want You, I Need You, I Love You -- Elvis Presley Ivory Tower -- Otis Williams & His Charms Ain't That Lovin' You Baby -- Jimmy Reed Love, Love, Love -- Clovers Canadian Sunset -- Eddie Heywood & Hugo Winterhalter Love Me Tender -- Elvis Presley Bad Luck -- B. B. King Hands Off -- Jay McShann & Priscilla Bowman So-Long -- Fats Domino Poor Me -- Fats Domino Whatcha Gonna Do When Your Baby Leaves You -- Chuck Willis Jivin' Around -- Ernie Freeman Little Girl of Mine -- Cleftones Up on the Mountain -- Magnificents Pleadin' for Love -- Larry Birdsong Country 1956 Crazy Arms -- Ray Price Heartbreak Hotel -- Elvis Presley I Walk the Line -- Johnny Cash Blue Suede Shoes -- Carl Perkins Searching -- Kitty Wells I Want You, I Need You, I Love You -- Elvis Presley Don't Be Cruel -- Elvis Presley Why Baby Why -- Red Sovine & Webb Pierce I Forgot to Remember to Forget -- Elvis Presley Singing the Blues -- Marty Robbins Hound Dog -- Elvis Presley You and Me -- Red Foley & Kitty Wells Sweet Dreams -- Faron Young So Doggone Lonesome -- Johnny Cash Sixteen Tons -- Tennessee Ernie Love Love Love -- Webb Pierce I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby -- Louvin Brothers I Take the Chance -- Jim Ed & Maxine Brown Blackboard of My Heart -- Hank Thompson Be-Bop-a-Lula -- Gene Vincent Sports in 1956 Indianapolis 500: Pat Flaherty Kentucky Derby: Needles Major League Baseball World Series: Yankees 4, Dodgers 3 Pro Football Cleveland 26, College All-Stars 0 NFL Championship: New York 47, Chicago Bears 7 College Football: Navy 7, Army 7 Rose Bowl: Michigan State 17, UCLA 14 Cotton Bowl: Mississippi 14, TCU 13 Orange Bowl: Oklahoma 20, Maryland 6 Sugar Bowl: Georgia Tech 7, Pittsburgh 0 Pro Basketball Championship Series: Philadelphia Warriors 4, Fort Wayne Pistons 1 At the Movies On Television "The Ten Commandments" "Around the World in 80 Days" "And God Created Woman" "Friendly Persuasion" "Giant" "The King and I" "Lust for Life" "Richard III" "Anastasia" "Baby Doll" "The Rainmaker" "The Bad Seed" "Bus Stop" "The Bold and the Brave" "Written on the Wind" "War and Peace" I Love Lucy Ed Sullivan Show General Electric Theatre $64,000 Question December Bride Alfred Hitchcock Presents I've Got a Secret Gunsmoke Perry Como Show Jack Benny Show Dragnet Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts The Millionaire Disneyland Red Skelton Show

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1957 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
"Vacation" in Port Everglades, Fla.	25 January to 4 February
	25 March	European Common Market founded
Captain R. H. Bowers relieves Capt. Nimitz	25 July
	19-21 August	USS Gudgeon (SS-567) held down by Russian sub chasers near Vladivostok naval base. Forced to surface, she is then allowed to leave
	4 September	Arkansas Gov. Faubus calls out National Guard to prevent black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. Ford Motor Company begins selling Edsels
	24 September	Troops sent to Little Rock to quell mob and protect school integration
	4 October	Russians launch Sputnik I

Popular Songs of 1957

All Shook Up -- Elvis Presley Love Letters in the Sand -- Pat Boone Little Darlin' -- Diamonds Young Love -- Tab Hunter So Rare -- Jimmy Dorsey Don't Forbid Me -- Pat Boone Singing the Blues -- Guy Mitchell Young Love -- Sonny James Too Much -- Elvis Presley Round and Round -- Perry Como Bye Bye Love -- Everly Brothers Tammy -- Debbie Reynolds Party Doll -- Buddy Knox Teddy Bear/Loving You -- Elvis Presley Banana Boat (Day-O) -- Harry Belafonte Jailhouse Rock -- Elvis Presley White Sport Coat -- Marty Robbins Come Go With Me -- Dell Vikings Wake Up Little Suzie -- Everly Brothers You Send Me -- Sam Cooke Searchin' -- Coasters School Day -- Chuck Berry Gone -- Ferlin Husky Diana -- Paul Anka A Teenager's Romance -- Ricky Nelson Banana Boat Song -- Tarriers Honeycomb -- Jimmie Rodgers Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On -- Jerry Lee Lewis Dark Moon -- Gale Storm That'll Be the Day -- Crickets Butterfly -- Charlie Gracie Moonlight Gambler -- Frankie Laine Teen-Age Crush -- Tommy Sands It's Not for Me to Say -- Johnny Mathis Silhouettes -- Rays Butterfly -- Andy Williams Marianne -- Terry Gilkyson & The Easy Riders I'm Walkin' -- Fats Domino Chances Are -- Johnny Mathis Send for Me -- Nat King Cole Rainbow -- Russ Hamilton Be-Bop Baby -- Ricky Nelson Short Fat Fannie -- Larry Williams Green Door -- Jim Lowe I'm Gonna Sit Right Down -- Billy Williams Blueberry Hill -- Fats Domino Old Cape Cod -- Patti Page Mr. Lee -- Bobbettes Whispering Bells -- Dell Vikings Blue Monday -- Fats Domino R&B 1957 Jailhouse Rock -- Elvis Presley Searchin' / Young Blood -- Coasters You Send Me -- Sam Cooke Wake Up Little Suzie -- Everly Brothers All Shook Up -- Elvis Presley Blue Monday -- Fats Domino Honeycomb -- Jimmie Rodgers Diana -- Paul Anka Silhouettes -- Rays Come Go With Me -- Dell Vikings I'm Walkin' -- Fats Domino Love Is Strange -- Mickey & Sylvia Send for Me -- Nat King Cole Short Fat Fannie -- Larry Williams School Day -- Chuck Berry Little Darlin' -- Diamonds That'll Be the Day -- Crickets Lucille -- Little Richard Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On -- Jerry Lee Lewis Blueberry Hill -- Fats Domino Happy, Happy Birthday Baby -- Tune Weavers C. C. Rider -- Chuck Willis Mr. Lee -- Bobbettes Teddy Bear/Loving You -- Elvis Presley Since I Met You Baby -- Ivory Joe Hunter So Rare -- Jimmy Dorsey Jim Dandy -- LaVern Baker Honky Tonk -- Bill Doggett Little Bitty Pretty One -- Thurston Harris Be-Bop Baby -- Ricky Nelson Valley of Tears -- Fats Domino Just Because -- Lloyd Price Over the Mountain, Across the Sea -- Johnnie & Joe Jenny Jenny/Miss Ann -- Little Richard Farther Up the Road -- Bobbie "Blue" Bland Without Love -- Clyde McPhatter Keep a Knockin' -- Little Richard Party Doll -- Buddy Knox It Hurts to Be in Love -- Annie Laurie Bye Bye Love -- Everly Brothers Star Dust -- Billy Ward & His Dominoes Love Letters in the Sand -- Pat Boone Singing the Blues -- Guy Mitchell A Thousand Miles Away -- Heartbeats Next Time You See Me -- Little Junior Parker Honest I Do -- Jimmy Reed Too Much -- Elvis Presley Raunchy -- Bill Justis Young Love -- Tab Hunter Whispering Bells -- Dell Vikings Ain't Got No Home -- Clarence "Frogman" Henry Country 1957 Gone -- Ferlin Husky Fraulein -- Bobby Helms Bye Bye Love -- Everly Brothers A White Sport Coat -- Marty Robbins Young Love -- Sonny James Four Walls -- Jim Reeves There You Go / Train of Love -- Johnny Cash Wake Up Little Suzie -- Everly Brothers Gonna Find Me a Bluebird -- Marvin Rainwater Jailhouse Rock -- Elvis Presley Singing the Blues -- Marty Robbins Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin On -- Jerry Lee Lewis Teddy Bear / Loving You -- Elvis Presley Honky Tonk Song -- Webb Pierce My Special Angel -- Bobby Helms All Shook Up -- Elvis Presley My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You -- Ray Price Walkin' After Midnight -- Patsy Cline Geisha Girl -- Hank Locklin I'm Tired -- Webb Pierce Sports in 1957 Indianapolis 500: Sam Hanks Kentucky Derby: Iron Liege Major League Baseball World Series: Milwaukee 4, Yankees 3 Pro Football N.Y. Giants 22, College All-Stars 12 NFL Championship: Detroit 59, Cleveland 14 College Football: Navy 14, Army 0 Rose Bowl: Iowa 35, Oregon State 19 Cotton Bowl: Texas Christian 28, Syracuse 27 Orange Bowl: Colorado 27, Clemson 21 Sugar Bowl: Baylor, 13, Tennessee 7 Pro Basketball Fort Wayne Pistons move to Detroit Rochester Royals move to Cincinnati Championship Series: Boston 4, St. Louis 3 At the Movies On Television "The Bridge on the River Kwai" "Peyton Place" "Jailhouse Rock" "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" "Sayonara" "Twelve Angry Men" "Witness for the Prosecution" "A Hatful of Rain" "Wild Is the Wind" "The Three Faces of Eve" "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" "Raintree County" "A Farewell to Arms" "Tammy and the Bachelor" Gunsmoke Danny Thomas Show Tales of Wells Fargo Have Gun, Will Travel I've Got a Secret Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp General Electric Theatre The Restless Gun December Bride You Bet Your Life Perry Como Show Alfred Hitchcock Presents Cheyenne The Ford Show Red Skelton Show Gale Storm Show The Millionaire The Lineup This Is Your Life $64,000 Question Zane Grey Theatre Lassie Wagon Train Sugarfoot Father Knows Best

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1958 On This Date	Events Elsewhere The Army joins Elvis
	31 January	First U.S. satellite, Explorer I, put into orbit
	27 March	Bulganin resigns. Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier
	30 May	USS Stickleback (SS-415) lost off Hawaii after collision with USS Silverstein (DE-534). Crew taken off prior to sinking
	15 July	Marines sent into Lebanon
	29 July	NASA created
Capt. C. D. Brown relieves Capt. Bowers	1 August
Departs for Yorktown, Va., to embark personnel and equipment of GNU-51 for transfer to Roosevelt Roads, P.R. Provides upkeep and services to SubDiv 63 units in San Juan	4-29 September
Recreational visit to New York City	4-9 December
	21 December	De Gaulle elected president of Fifth Republic

Popular Songs of 1958

Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) -- Domenico Modugno All I Have to Do Is Dream -- Everly Brothers Don't/I Beg of You -- Elvis Presley Witch Doctor -- David Seville Patricia -- Perez Prado Sail Along Silvery Moon -- Billy Vaughn Catch a Falling Star/Magic Moments -- Perry Como Tequila -- The Champs It's All in the Game -- Tommy Edwards Return to Me -- Dean Martin It's Only Make Believe -- Conway Twitty Purple People Eater -- Sheb Wooley Bird Dog/Devoted to You -- Everly Brothers Get a Job -- Silhouettes Little Star -- Elegants Twilight Time -- Platters Stood Up/ Waitin' in School -- Ricky Nelson He's Got the Whole World -- Laurie London Secretly -- Jimmy Rodgers At the Hop -- Danny & The Juniors Yakkety Yak -- Coasters Wear My Ring Around Your Neck -- Elvis Presley Rockin' Robin -- Bobby Day Poor Little Fool -- Ricky Nelson Wonderful Time Up There -- Pat Boone Just a Dream -- Jimmy Clanton Sugartime -- McGuire Sisters Tom Dooley -- Kingston Trio Sweet Little Sixteen -- Chuck Berry Topsy (Part II) -- Cozy Cole Looking Back -- Nat King Cole Book of Love -- Monotones Tea for Two Cha Cha -- Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Tears on My Pillow -- Little Anthony & The Imperials Short Shorts -- Royal Teens Great Balls of Fire -- Jerry Lee Lewis Lollipop -- Chordettes Splish Splash -- Bobby Darin Who's Sorry Now -- Connie Francis Endless Sleep -- Jody Reynolds Do You Want to Dance -- Bobby Freeman When -- Kalin Twins To Know Him Is to Love Him -- Teddy Bears April Love -- Pat Boone Rebel 'Rouser -- Duane Eddy Oh, Julie -- Crescendos The Stroll -- Diamonds Hard Headed Woman -- Elvis Presley Peggy Sue -- Buddy Holly Oh, Lonesome Me -- Don Gibson R&B 1958 What Am I Living For / Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes -----------------------------------------------------------------  -- Chuck Willis Rockin' Robin -- Bobby Day Don't/I Beg of You -- Elvis Presley Looking Back -- Nat King Cole All I Have to Do Is Dream -- Everly Brothers It's All in the Game -- Tommy Edwards Just a Dream -- Jimmy Clanton Yakkety Yak -- Coasters Witch Doctor -- David Seville Little Star -- Elegants Tequila -- Champs Win Your Love for Me -- Sam Cooke Bird Dog -- Everly Brothers Twilight Time -- Platters My True Love / Leroy -- Jack Scott At the Hop -- Danny & The Juniors Get a Job -- Silhouettes Poor Little Fool -- Ricky Nelson Tears on My Pillow -- Little Anthony & The Imperials Patricia -- Perez Prado Topsy (Part II) -- Cozy Cole Sweet Little Sixteen -- Chuck Berry For Your Love -- Ed Townsend Willie and the Hand Jive -- Johnny Otis Show Talk to Me, Talk to Me -- Little Willie John Johnny B. Goode -- Chuck Berry Maybe -- ChaTntels Oh Julie -- Crescendos He's Got the Whole World -- Laurie London Don't Let Go -- Roy Hamilton Short Shorts -- Royal Teens Book Of Love -- Monotones Jennie Lee -- Jan & Arnie Splish Splash -- Bobby Darin Peggy Sue -- Buddy Holly Do You Want to Dance -- Bobby Freeman Hard Headed Woman -- Elvis Presley Wear My Ring Around Your Neck -- Elvis Presley The Stroll -- Diamonds Secretly-- Jimmie Rodgers Endless Sleep -- Jody Reynolds Lollipop -- Chordettes A Lover's Question -- Clyde McPhatter Raunchy -- Ernie Freeman Don't You Just Know It -- Huey Smith To Be Loved -- Jackie Wilson Big Man -- Four Preps Who's Sorry Now -- Connie Francis I'm Gonna Get My Baby -- Jimmy Reed Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) -- Domenico Modugno Country 1958 Oh, Lonesome Me / I Can't Stop Loving You -- Don Gibson Just Married / Stairway of Love -- Marty Robbins Guess Things Happen That Way -- Johnny Cash City Lights / Invitation to the Blues -- Ray Price Don't / I Beg of You -- Elvis Presley The Ways of a Woman in Love -- Johnny Cash Ballad of a Teenage Queen -- Johnny Cash Send Me the Pillow You Dream On -- Hank Locklin Blue, Blue Day -- Don Gibson Alone With You -- Faron Young Blue Boy -- Jim Reeves Bird Dog / Devoted to You -- Everly Brothers All I Have to Do Is Dream -- Everly Brothers The Story of My Life -- Marty Robbins I Can't Stop Loving You -- Kitty Wells Geisha Girl -- Hank Locklin Hard Headed Woman / Don't Ask Me Why -- Elvis Presley It's a Little More Like Heaven -- Hank Locklin Great Balls of Fire -- Jerry Lee Lewis Secretly -- Jimmie Rodgers Sports in 1958 Indianapolis 500: Jimmy Bryan Kentucky Derby: Tim Tam Major League Baseball Brooklyn Dodgers move to Los Angeles, New York Giants to San Francisco World Series: Yankees 4, Milwaukee 3 Pro Football College All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 NFL Championship: Baltimore 23, New York 17 College Football: Army 22, Navy 6 Rose Bowl: Ohio State 10, Oregon 7 Cotton Bowl: Navy 20, Rice 7 Orange Bowl: Oklahoma 48, Duke 21 Sugar Bowl: Mississippi 39, Texas 7 Pro Basketball Championship Series: St. Louis 4, Boston 2 At the Movies On Television "Vertigo" "Touch of Evil" "Gigi" "Auntie Mame" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "The Defiant Ones" "Separate Tables" "The Old Man and the Sea" "I Want to Live" "Some Came Running" "The Big Country" "The Brothers Karamazov" "Teacher's Pet" "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" Gunsmoke Wagon Train Have Gun, Will Travel The Rifleman Danny Thomas Show Maverick Tales of Wells Fargo The Real McCoys I've Got a Secret Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp The Price Is Right Red Skelton Show Zane Grey Theatre Father Know Best The Texan Wanted: Dead or Alive Peter Gunn Cheyenne Perry Mason The Ford Show Sugarfoot Ann Sothern Show Perry Como Show Alfred Hitchcock Presents Name That Tune

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1959 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
	1 January	Batista flees Cuba. Castro takes power
	3 January	Alaska becomes 49th state
	7 January	U.S. recognizes Castro's new government
Recreational visit to Port Everglades	2-9 February
	9 April	First astronauts are introduced
	25 April	St. Lawrence Seaway opens
	May	USS Grenadier (SS-525) chases Russian Zulu Class sub until it is forced to surface near Iceland
Visits San Juan in company with USS Kittiwake and submarines from Subron 6	15 May to 1 June
Dependents' Cruise in Chesapeake Bay	30 July
Capt. J. D. Mason relieves Capt. Brown	11 August
	21 August	Hawaii becomes 50th state
	15-27 September	Krushchev visits the U.S.
	21 October	German rocket scientist Von Braun joins NASA

Popular Songs of 1959

Battle of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton Mack the Knife -- Bobby Darin Personality -- Lloyd Price Venus -- Frankie Avalon Lonely Boy -- Paul Anka Dream Lover -- Bobby Darin The Three Bells -- Browns Come Softly to Me -- Fleetwoods Kansas City -- Wilbert Harrison Mr. Blue-- Fleetwoods Sleep Walk -- Santo & Johnny Put Your Head on My Shoulder -- Paul Anka Stagger Lee -- Lloyd Price Donna -- Ritchie Valens Pink Shoelaces -- Dodie Stevens Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -- Platters Charlie Brown -- Coasters Quiet Village -- Martin Denny My Heart Is an Open Book -- Carl Dobkins Jr. ('Til) I Kissed You -- Everly Brothers Sea of Love -- Phil Phillips The Happy Organ -- Dave "Baby"  Cortez I'm Gonna Get Married -- Lloyd Price Sorry, I Ran All the Way Home -- Impalas A Teenager in Love -- Dion & The Belmonts 16 Candles -- Crests It's Just a Matter of Time -- Brook Benton Lipstick on Your Collar -- Connie Francis There Goes My Baby -- Drifters A Big Hunk O' Love -- Elvis Presley Red River Rock -- Johnny & The Hurricanes Waterloo -- Stonewall Jackson* Lavender Blue -- Sammy Turner A Fool Such as I -- Elvis Presley Guitar Boogie Shuffle -- Virtues Teen Beat -- Sandy Nelson Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) -- Edward Byrnes Tragedy -- Thomas Wayne My Happiness -- Connie Francis Tallahassee Lassie -- Freddy Cannon Tiger -- Fabian Never Be Anyone Else But You -- Ricky Nelson Don't You Know -- Della Reese I Need Your Love Tonight -- Elvis Presley What a Diff'rence a Day Makes -- Dinah Washington All American Boy -- Bill Parsons Primrose Lane -- Jerry Wallace Alvin's Harmonica -- David Seville & The Chipmunks Lonely Street -- Andy Williams What'd I Say -- Ray Charles R&B 1959 Stagger Lee -- Lloyd Price It's Just a Matter of Time -- Brook Benton Kansas City -- Wilbert Harrison Lonely Teardrops -- Jackie Wilson Personality -- Lloyd Price I Cried a Tear -- LaVern Baker Try Me -- James Brown There Goes My Baby -- Drifters What'd I Say -- Ray Charles Thank You Pretty Baby -- Brook Benton There Is Something on Your Mind -- Big Jay McNeely You're So Fine -- Falcons I Loves You Porgy -- Nina Simone So Fine -- Fiestas The Right Time -- Ray Charles I'm Gonna Get Married -- Lloyd Price Charlie Brown -- Coasters Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -- Platters Poison Ivy -- Coasters 16 Candles -- Crests I Want to Walk You Home -- Fats Domino That's Why -- Jackie Wilson Battle of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton Nobody But You -- Dee Clark Pretty Girls Everywhere -- Eugene Church A Lover's Question -- Clyde McPhatter Everybody Likes to Cha Cha Cha -- Sam Cooke Sea of Love -- Phil Phillips What a Diff'rence a Day Makes -- Dinah Washington I Only Have Eyes for You -- Flamingos Endlessly -- Brook Benton Red River Rock -- Johnny & The Hurricanes Dream Lover -- Bobby Darin I Waited Too Long -- LaVern Baker Say Man -- Bo Diddley Lonely Boy -- Paul Anka Almost Grown -- Chuck Berry Sleep Walk -- Santo & Johnny So Close -- Brook Benton Hey Little Girl -- Dee Clark I'll Be Satisfied -- Jackie Wilson You Better Know It -- Jackie Wilson Come to Me -- Marv Johnson Teardrops on Your Letters -- Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Since I Don't Have You -- Skyliners The Happy Organ -- Dave "Baby" Cortez Don't You Know -- Della Reese Broken-Hearted Melody -- Sarah Vaughn Where Were You on Our Wedding Day -- Lloyd Price I'm Ready -- Fats Domino Country 1959 Battle of New Orleans-- Johnny Horton The Three Bells -- The Browns Heartaches By the Number -- Ray Price Waterloo -- Stonewall Jackson* Don't Take Your Guns to Town -- Johnny Cash White Lightning -- George Jones Country Girl -- Faron Young I Ain't Never -- Webb Pierce When It's Springtime in Alaska -- Johnny Horton Billy Bayou -- Jim Reeves Home -- Jim Reeves Big Midnight Special -- Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper I'm in Love Again -- George Morgan Country Music Is Here to Stay -- Simon Crum Come Walk With Me -- Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper Who Cares -- Don Gibson Life to Go -- Stonewall Jackson* I Got Stripes -- Johnny Cash Tennessee Stud -- Eddy Arnold Black Land Farmer -- Frankie Miller *Stonewall Jackson served in Subron 6 in the early '50s aboard the USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) Sports in 1959 Indianapolis 500: Rodger Ward Kentucky Derby: Tomy Lee Major League Baseball World Series: L.A. Dodgers 4, White Sox 2 Pro Football Baltimore 29, College All-Stars 0 NFL Championship: Baltimore 31, New York 16 College Football: Navy 43, Army 12 Rose Bowl: Iowa 38, California 12 Cotton Bowl: Texas Christian 0, Air Force 0 Orange Bowl: Oklahoma 21, Syracuse 6 Sugar Bowl: LSU 7, Clemson 0 Pro Basketball Championship Series: Boston 4, Minneapolis 0 At the Movies On Television "Ben-Hur" "Sleeping Beauty" "Some Like It Hot" "Anatomy of a Murder" "The Diary of Anne Frank" "The Nun's Story" "Room at the Top" "The Last Angry Man" "Pillow Talk" "Suddenly, Last Summer" "The Young Philadelphians" "Imitation of Life" Gunsmoke Wagon Train Have Gun, Will Travel Danny Thomas Show Red Skelton Show Father Knows Best 77 Sunset Strip The Price Is Right Wanted: Dead or Alive Perry Mason The Real McCoys Ed Sullivan Show Bing Crosby Show The Rifleman The Ford Show The Lawman Dennis the Menace Cheyenne Rawhide Maverick Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Mr. Lucky Zane Grey Theatre General Electric Theatre Ann Sothern Show

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1960 On This Date	Events Elsewhere Kennedy and Nixon debate on TV
	16 February	USS Triton (SSN-586) begins submerged trip around the world
	24 April	USS Triton completes submerged circumnavigation
	1 May	U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet Union
	16 May	Paris summit meeting cancelled over U-2 incident
	23 May	Adolf Eichmann captured by Israelis in Argentina
	30 June	Belgian Congo given independence
	13 July	Democrats nominate John Kennedy for president
Captain L. S. Eubanks relieves Capt. Mason	20 July
	7 August	Cuba begins confiscating U.S. property
	19 August	U-2 pilot Powers sentenced to 10 years
Enters Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for FRAM II overhaul and conversion to nuclear support	6 September
	17 October	TV quiz show scandal erupts
	8 November	Kennedy wins by narrow margin over Nixon

Popular Songs of 1960

Theme From a Summer Place -- Percy Faith He'll Have to Go -- Jim Reeves Cathy's Clown -- Everly Brothers Running Bear -- Johnny Preston Teen Angel -- Mark Dinning It's Now or Never -- Elvis Presley Handy Man -- Jimmy Jones I'm Sorry -- Brenda Lee Stuck on You -- Elvis Presley The Twist -- Chubby Checker Everybody's Somebody's Fool -- Connie Francis Wild One -- Bobby Rydell Greenfields -- Brothers Four What in the World's Come Over You -- Jack Scott El Paso -- Marty Robbins Alley-Oop -- Hollywood Argyles My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own -- Connie Francis Sweet Nothin's -- Brenda Lee Itsy Bitsy . . . Yellow Polka Dot Bikini -- Brian Hyland Only the Lonely -- Roy Orbison Where or When -- Dion & The Belmonts Sixteen Reasons -- Connie Stevens Puppy Love -- Paul Anka Why -- Frankie Avalon Walk, Don't Run -- Ventures Save the Last Dance for Me -- Drifters Baby (You've Got What It Takes) -- B. Benton/D. Washington Sink the Bismarck -- Johnny Horton Chain Gang -- Sam Cooke Let It Be Me -- Everly Brothers Good Timin' -- Jimmy Jones Beyond the Sea -- Bobby Darin Go, Jimmy, Go -- Jimmy Clanton Night -- Jackie Wilson Burning Bridges -- Jack Scott The Big Hurt -- Toni Fisher Because They're Young -- Duane Eddy Lonely Blue Boy -- Conway Twitty Pretty Blue Eyes -- Steve Lawrence Way Down Yonder in New Orleans -- Freddy Cannon Paper Roses -- Anita Bryant Mr. Custer -- Larry Verne I Want to Be Wanted -- Brenda Lee Mule Skinner Blues -- Fendermen Cradle of Love -- Johnny Preston You Got What It Takes -- Marv Johnson Please Help Me, I'm Falling -- Hank Locklin Love You So -- Ron Holden Finger Poppin' Time -- Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Harbor Lights -- Platters R&B in 1960 Kiddio -- Brook Benton Baby (You've Got What It Takes) -- B. Benton/D. Washington A Fool in Love -- Ike & Tina Turner The Twist -- Chubby Checker Chain Gang -- Sam Cooke Money -- Barrett Strong Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go -- Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Finger Poppin' Time -- Hank Ballard & The Midnighters A Woman, A Lover, A Friend -- Jackie Wilson Save the Last Dance for Me -- Drifters Doggin' Around -- Jackie Wilson Georgia on My Mind -- Ray Charles This Bitter Earth -- Dinah Washington Fannie Mae -- Buster Brown He Will Break Your Heart -- Jerry Butler A Rockin' Good Way -- Brook Benton & Dinah Washington My Dearest Darling -- Etta James White Silver Sands -- Bill Black's Combo There's Something on Your Mind -- Bobby Marchan All I could Do Was Cry -- Etta James Sticks and Stones -- Ray Charles Just a Little Bit -- Roscoe Gordon I Love the Way You Love -- Marv Johnson Handy Man -- Jimmy Jones Theme From a Summer Place -- Percy Faith Wonderful World -- Sam Cooke Smokie (Part II) -- Bill Black's Combo Lady Luck -- Lloyd Price Alley-Oop -- Hollywood Argyles You Got What It Takes -- Marv Johnson Walking to New Orleans -- Fats Domino Question -- Lloyd Price This Magic Moment -- Drifters I'm Sorry -- Brenda Lee Sweet Sixteen -- B. B. King Stay -- Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs The Twist -- Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Everybody's Somebody's Fool -- Connie Francis Talk That Talk -- Jackie Wilson I Want to Know -- Sugar Pie DeSanto Madison Time -- Ray Bryant I'll Take Care of You -- Bobby Bland Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me) -- Jon Thomas Running Bear -- Johnny Preston Cathy's Clown -- Everly Brothers Partin' Time -- B. B. King If I Can't Have You -- Etta & Harvey Big Boy Pete -- Olympics It's Now or Never -- Elvis Presley Think -- James Brown Country in 1960 He'll Have to Go -- Jim Reeves Please Help Me, I'm Falling -- Hank Locklin Alabam' -- Cowboy Copas El Paso -- Marty Robbins One More Time -- Ray Price Just One Time -- Don Gibson Above and Beyond -- Buck Owens The Same Old Me -- Ray Price Another -- Roy Drusky On the Wings of a Dove -- Ferlin Husky I Can't Help You (I'm Falling Too) -- Skeeter Davis Anymore -- Roy Drusky I'm Getting Better -- Jim Reeves No Love Have I -- Webb Pierce Excuse Me (IThink I Have a Heartache) -- Buck Owens Wishful Thinking -- Wynn Stewart You're the Only Good Thing -- George Morgan Riverboat -- Faron Young Amigo's Guitar -- Kitty Wells Heart to Heart Talk -- Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan Sports in 1960 Indianapolis 500: Jim Rathmann Kentucky Derby: Venetian Way Major League Baseball World Series: Pirates 4, Yankees 3 Pro Football Expansion: NFL adds Dallas Cowboys Chicago Cardinals move to St. Louis Baltimore 32, College All-Stars 7 NFL Championship: Philadelphia 17, Green Bay 13 AFL Championship: Houston 24, L.A. Chargers 16 College Football: Navy 17, Army 12 Rose Bowl: Washington 44, Wisconsin 8 Cotton Bowl: Syracuse 23, Texas 0 Orange Bowl: Georgia 14, Missouri 0 Sugar Bowl: Mississippi 21, LSU 0 Pro Basketball Minneapolis Lakers move to Los Angeles Championship Series: Boston 4, St. Louis Hawks 3 Muncie Central is upset by East Chicago Washington, 75-59, in the championship game of the Indiana High School State Basketball Tourney At the Movies On Television "Let's Make Love" "Swiss Family Robinson" "Psycho" "G.I. Blues" "Macumba Love" "The Alamo" "The Apartment" "Elmer Gantry" "Sons and Lovers" "The Sundowners" "The Entertainer" "Inherit the Wind" "Butterfield 8" "Sunrise at Campobello" "Never on Sunday" "Spartacus" "Murder, Inc." "Exodus" "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" Gunsmoke Wagon Train Have Gun, Will Travel Andy Griffith Show The Real McCoys Rawhide Candid Camera The Untouchables The Price Is Right Jack Benny Show Dennis the Menace Danny Thomas Show My Three Sons 77 Sunset Strip Ed Sullivan Show Perry Mason Bonanza The Flintstones Red Skelton Show Alfred Hitchcock Presents Celebrity Talent Scouts General Electric Theatre Checkmate What's My Line Many Lives of Dobie Gillis

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USS Orion (AS-18) Wins Battle "E" and Engineering "E"	1961 On This Date	Events Elsewhere
	3 January	U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
	20 January	John F. Kennedy inaugurated
FRAM II overhaul completed. Rear 5" guns removed, upper decks extended aft, helicopter deck added	25 February
Underway training at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Visits Kingston, Jamaica	March
Question: When were the front guns removed and	12 April	Moscow announces putting first man in orbit
deck added above the captain's/commodore's cabins?	17 April	Bay of Pigs invasion crushed
	5 May	First U.S. manned rocket flight made by Alan Shepard
Week-long visit to Fort Lauderdale	May
Serves first nuclear submarine, USS Shark (SSN-591)	June
Captain A. A. Bergner relieves Capt. Eubanks. Capt. Eubanks returns two weeks later as Commander Submarine Squadron 6	7 July
	13 August	East Germans close border in Berlin
	15 August	East Germans begin constructing Berlin Wall
	18 September	UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold killed in plane crash
	22 September	Peace Corps established
	11 December	First large force of military advisers sent to Vietnam
	15 December	Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death in Tel Aviv

Popular Songs of 1961

Tossin' and Turnin'-- Bobby Lewis I Fall to Pieces -- Patsy Cline Michael -- Highwaymen Crying -- Roy Orbison Runaway -- Del Shannon My True Story -- Jive Five Pony Time -- Chubby Checker Wheels -- String-a-Longs Raindrops -- Dee Clark Wooden Heart -- Joe Dowell Calcutta -- Lawrence Welk Take Good Care of My Baby -- Bobby Vee Running Scared -- Roy Orbison Dedicated to the One I Love -- Shirelles Last Night -- Mar-Keys Will You Love Me Tomorrow -- Shirelles Exodus -- Ferrante & Teicher Where the Boys Are -- Connie Francis Hit the Road Jack -- Ray Charles Sad Movies (Make Me Cry) -- Sue Thompson Mother-in-Law -- Ernie K-Doe Bristol Stomp -- Dovells Travelin' Man -- Ricky Nelson Shop Around -- Miracles Boll Weevil Song -- Brook Benton A Hundred Pounds of Clay -- Gene McDaniels The Mountain's High -- Dick and Deedee Don't Worry -- Marty Robbins On the Rebound -- Floyd Cramer Portrait of My Love -- Steve Lawrence Quarter to Three -- U.S. Bonds Who Put the Bomp -- Barry Mann Calendar Girl -- Neil Sedaka I Like It Like That -- Chris Kenner Apache -- Jorgen Ingmann Don't Bet Money Honey -- Linda Scott Without You -- Johnny Tillotson Wings of a Dove -- Ferlin Husky Little Sister -- Elvis Presley Blue Moon -- Marcels Daddy's Home -- Shep & The Limelites This Time -- Troy Shondell I Don't Know Why, But I Do -- Clarence Henry Asia Minor -- Kokomo Hello Walls -- Faron Young Runaround Sue -- Dion Yellow Bird -- Arthur Lyman Hurt -- Timi Yuro Hello Mary Lou -- Ricky Nelson There's a Moon Out Tonight -- Capris R&B in 1961 Tossin' and Turnin' -- Bobby Lewis It's Gonna Work Out Fine -- Ike & Tina Turner Don't Cry No More -- Bobby Bland Hide Away -- Freddy King Shop Around -- Miracles My true Story -- Jive Five I Like It Like That -- Chris Kenner Stand By Me -- Ben E. King Mother-in-Law -- Ernie K-Doe All in My Mind -- Maxine Brown I Pity the Fool -- Bobby Bland Every Beat of My Heart -- Pips Baby, You're Right -- James Brown Last Night -- Mar-Keys For My Baby -- Brook Benton The Boll Weevil Song -- Brook Benton Hit the Road Jack -- Ray Charles I Don't Mind -- James Brown Ya Ya -- Lee Dorsey Will You Love Me Tomorrow -- Shirelles One Mint Julep -- Ray Charles Blue Moon -- Marcels Quarter to Three -- U.S. Bonds At Last -- Etta James Raindrops -- Dee Clark Pony Time -- Chubby Checker Bright Lights, Big City -- Jimmy Reed Daddy's Home -- Shep & The Limelites Think Twice -- Brook Benton Please Mr. Postman -- Marvelettes I Don't Want to Cry -- Chuck Jackson Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes) -- Carla Thomas You Can Have Her -- Roy Hamilton A Little Bit of Soap -- Jarmels Trust in Me -- Etta James Runaround Sue -- Dion Driving Wheel -- Little Junior Parker Let the Four Winds Blow -- Fats Domino Mama Said -- Shirelles Exodus -- Eddie Harris Lonesome Whistle Blues -- Freddy King Take My Love -- Little Willie John The Switch-a-Roo -- Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Bristol Stomp -- Dovells Look in My Eyes -- Chantels Dedicated to the One I Love -- Shirelles San-Ho-Zay -- Freddy King Don't Cry Baby -- Etta James Find Another Girl -- Jerry Butler That's What Girls Are Made For -- Spinners Country in 1961 I Fall to Pieces -- Patsy Cline Foolin' Around -- Buck Owens Window Up Above -- George Jones Tender Years -- George Jones Three Hearts in a Tangle -- Roy Drusky Hello Walls -- Faron Young Don't Worry -- Marty Robbins Heartbreak U.S.A. -- Kitty Wells Sea of Heartbreak -- Don Gibson On the Wings of a Dove -- Ferlin Husky Sweet Lips -- Webb Pierce I'll Just Have Another Cup of Coffee -- Claude Gray I Missed Me -- Jim Reeves Hillbilly Heaven -- Tex Ritter Heart Over Mind -- Ray Price Under the Influence of Love -- Buck Owens North to Alaska -- Johnny Horton Walk on By -- Leroy Van Dyke My Ears Should Burn -- Claude Gray Beggar to a King -- Hank Snow Sports in 1961 Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt Kentucky Derby: Carry Back Major League Baseball Washington Senators move to Bloomington, Minn., name changed to Minnesota Twins AL Expansion: Los Angeles Angels and Washington Senators World Series: Yankees 4, Cincinnati 1 Pro Football Expansion: NFL adds Minnesota Vikings Los Angeles Chargers move to San Diego Philadelphia 28, College All-Stars 14 NFL Championship: Green Bay 37, New York 0 AFL Championship: Houston 10, San Diego Chargers 3 College Football: Navy 13, Army 7 Rose Bowl: Washington 17, Minnesota 7 Cotton Bowl: Duke 7, Arkansas 6 Orange Bowl: Missouri 21, Navy 14 Sugar Bowl: Mississippi 14, Rice 6 Pro Basketball Expansion: Chicago Packers Championship Series: Boston 4, St. Louis Hawks 1 At the Movies On Television "101 Dalmations" "West Side Story" "El Cid" "Fanny" "The Guns of Navarone" "The Hustler" "Judgment at Nuremberg" "The Mark" "Breakfast at Tiffany's" "Splendor in the Grass" "Pocketful of Miracles" "The Children's Hour" "La Dolce Vita" Wagon Train Bonanza Gunsmoke Hazel Perry Mason Red Skelton Show Andy Griffith Show Danny Thomas Show Dr. Kildare Candid Camera My Three Sons Garry Moore Show Rawhide The Real McCoys Lassie Sing Along With Mitch Dennis the Menace Ben Casey Ed Sullivan Show Car 54, Where Are You The Flintstones Many Lives of Dobie Gillis Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Joey Bishop Show

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USS Orion (AS-18)	1962 On This Date	Events Elsewhere Mariner 2 launched to probe Venus
Three-week cruise to Bermuda	January
	31 January	Organization of American States expels Cuba
	10 February	Soviet spy Rudolph Abel swapped for U-2 pilot Powers
	20 February	John Glenn became first American to orbit earth
	31 May	Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel
	3 July	France transfers sovereignty to Republic of Algeria
	11 July	Telstar delivers first live telecast from Europe
Captain J. J. Vandergrift Jr. relieves Capt. Bergner	6 August
	22-28 October	Cuban missile crisis
	23 October	U.S. begins quarantine of Cuba
	30 November	U Thant elected U.N. Secretary-General

Popular Songs of 1962

Stranger on the Shore -- Mr. Acker Bilk I Can't Stop Loving You -- Ray Charles Mashed Potato Time -- Dee Dee Sharp Roses Are Red -- Bobby Vinton The Stripper -- David Rose Johnny Angel -- Shelley Fabares Loco-Motion -- Little Eva Let Me In -- Sensations The Twist -- Chubby Checker Soldier Boy -- Shirelles Hey! Baby -- Bruce Channel The Wanderer -- Dion Duke of Earl -- Gene Chandler Palisades Park -- Freddy Cannon Breaking Up Is Hard to Do -- Neil Sedaka Wolverton Mountain -- Claude King Slow Twistin' -- Chubby Checker It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin' -- Johnny Tillotson The One Who Really Loves You -- Mary Wells Good Luck Charm -- Elvis Presley Midnight in Moscow -- Kenny Ball Sheila -- Tommy Roe Twistin' the Night Away -- Sam Cooke The Wah-Watusi -- Orlons Peppermint Twist -- Joey Dee & The Starlighters Break It to Me Gently -- Brenda Lee Playboy -- Marvelettes Ramblin' Rose -- Nat King Cole Sealed With a Kiss -- Brian Hyland She Cried -- Jay & The Americans Don't Break the Heart That Loves You -- Connie Francis Dear Lady Twist -- Gary (U.S.) Bonds Norman -- Sue Thompson Love Letters -- Ketty Lester Party Lights -- Claudine Clark Cotton Fields -- Highwaymen Alley Cat -- Bent Fabric Twist and Shout -- Isley Brothers Theme From Dr. Kildare -- Richard Chamberlain Tuff -- Ace Cannon Lover, Please -- Clyde McPhatter I Know -- Barbara George Young World -- Ricky Nelson Baby, It's You -- Shirelles Speedy Gonzales -- Pat Boone A Little Bitty Tear -- Burl Ives Crying in the Rain -- Everly Brothers Al Di La -- Emilio Pericoli Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out) -- Ernie Maresca What's Your Name -- Don & Juan R&B in 1962 Soul Twist -- King Curtis I Can't Stop Loving You -- Ray Charles Twist and Shout -- Isley Brothers Bring It on Home to Me -- Sam Cooke Lost Someone -- James Brown Mashed Potato Time -- Dee Dee Clark Any Day Now -- Chuck Jackson Snap Your Fingers -- Joe Henderson Party Lights -- Claudine Clark You'll Lose a Good Thing -- Barbara Lynn Duke of Earl -- Gene Chandler Twistin' the Night Away -- Sam Cooke Something's Got a Hold on Me -- Etta James I Know -- Barbara George Soldier Boy -- Shirelles I Need Your Loving -- Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford Night Train -- James Brown The One Who Really Loves You -- Mary Wells The Twist -- Chubby Checker Don't Play That Song -- Ben E. King Love Letters -- Ketty Lester Letter Full of Tears -- Gladys Knight & The Pips Green Onions -- Booker T. & The M.G.'s The Loco-Motion -- Little Eva Sherry -- Four Seasons Playboy -- Marvelettes Jamie -- Eddie Holland You Beat Me to the Punch -- Mary Wells The Wah-Watusi -- Orlons Turn on Your Love Light -- Bobby Bland Annie Get Your Yo-Yo -- Little Junior Parker Baby It's You -- Shirelles Slow Twistin' -- Chubby Checker I'm Blue -- Ikettes Do You Love Me -- Contours Roses Are Red -- Bobby Vinton Cuttin' In -- Johnny (Guitar) Watson Having a Party -- Sam Cooke Let Me In -- Sensations Hey! Baby -- Bruce Channel I Found a Love -- Falcons Poor Fool -- Ike & Tina Turner Lie to Me -- Brook Benton Beechwood 4-5789 -- Marvelettes Unchain My Heart -- Ray Charles Rinky Dink -- Dave (Baby) Cortez Cry to Me -- Solomon Burke Dear Lady Twist -- Gary (U.S.) Bonds Ain't That Loving You -- Bobby Bland It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin' -- Johnny Tillotson Country in 1962 Wolverton Mountain -- Claude King Misery Loves Company -- Porter Wagoner She Thinks I Still Care -- George Jones Charlie's Shoes -- Billy Walker Adios Amigo -- Jim Reeves <