1. What Year Is It?
Kristen Boone

2. Scrabble Although the game had been released
The game is sold in 121 countries; there
are 29 different language versions. One
hundred and fifty million sets have been
sold worldwide, and sets are found in
roughly one-third of American homes.
Although the game had been released
earlier then this it was released
worldwide in this year.

3. McDonalds McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of
Hamburger Fast Food
Restaurants, serving around
64 million customers daily.
Headquartered in the United
States, the corporation was
founded by businessman
Ray Kroc in this year after he purchased the rights to a small
hamburger chain.
This was the 9th McDonalds Restaurant but the first built by the
McDonalds Corporation, those before belonging to the small chain.

4. Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp is the fifteenth animated feature in the Walt
Disney Animated Classics series, it was the first animated feature
filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process.
Walt read a short story in
Cosmopolitan written by
Ward Greene, called "Happy
Dan, The Whistling Dog". He
was interested in the story
and bought the rights to it.
This and an earlier idea are
what ended up creating the
final idea for this movie.

5. Peter Pan On TV The original stage production took
place at the Duke of
York's Theatre, London, on 27 December
1904.
Later it was brought to America and the
Broadway show, staring Mary Martin as
Peter Pan, was filmed for TV. To this day
Mary Martin is the actress most associated
with this role in America.

6. Disneyland Opens Disneyland opened in this year with only 20
attractions. This day is called “Black Sunday”
by those at Disney. Only 11,000 invitations went
out but 28,154 attended.
It was an unusually
high 101 degrees
and the asphalt that
was just poured had
not yet dried and high heels sank right in.
The water fountains in the park were not
working and vendors ran out of food. The
opening was all-in-all a disaster.

7. The Guinness Book of Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of
Records is a reference book published annually, containing a collection
of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the
natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling
copyrighted book series of all time. It is also one of the most frequently
stolen books from public libraries in the United States.

8. James Dean Dies James Dean was killed in a car accident on his way to
a race when a driver
hit him head on when turning onto a fork in
the road. He claimed he did not see Dean’s
car until it was too late.
In recent studies of the accident it has been
found that Dean was only driving 55 mph
even though many stories after the crash
wrote he was speeding.

9. Who Was Born?
Bruce Willis
Steve Jobs
My parents!!

10. Winston Churchill Resigns
Winston Churchill was Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom for nine years
serving two separate terms. He also
served in a number of other offices
during his ministries. He was the
Prime Minister throughout WWII and
was one of the first to really understand
the threat Hitler posed to Europe.
Churchill was the first to be named
an Honorary Citizen of the United
States.

11. Racial Segregation Claudette Colvin was the first African American
To resist racial segregation on public
Transportation, nine months before Rosa Parks.
Black leaders in the area did not
publicize Colvin’s efforts because
she was a teenager and became
pregnant while unmarried.

12. What Year Is It?
1955!