THE 50’s

Things Invented In The 1950’s Bottled beer was invented. Hula hooping was introduced. The first graphite pencil was invented. The first water wheel invented by Leonardo Da Vinci. The first flushing toilets were invented. Super glue made. First colour tv invented Disneyland McDonalds Lego Peace symbol TV remote Cat in ths hat Nasa founded

Sports In the 1950’s baseball and boxing were getting more popular.While golf and football (by football I mean American football) were still building. College football was more popular than pro football! Hockey was slowly getting bigger as well.

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Natural Disasters Assam, India, 1950: earthquake (1,526 dead) Holland, 1953: Sea flood (1,794 dead) Iran, 1953: Rain flood (10,000 dead) Louisiana, USA, 1957: Hurricane (400 dead) Worldwide, 1957: Influenza pandemic (about four million dead) Japan, 1958: Typhoon (5,000 dead) China, : Famine (38 million dead)

New Zealand The all blacks won their first ever test match against the springboks south Africa. The population todays is half of what the population was in the 1950’s. Shops were not opened in the weekends. Canterbury and Taranaki were the strongest ITM cup teams and still are today! At this point of year rugby was a highlight for our small populated country. Of 26 years trying new Zealand black caps won their first cricket test at Eden Park beating West Indies.