December 1: In Indonesia, Sukarno announces the nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses.
December 4: The Lewisham train disaster in the UK leaves 92 dead.
December 5: All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia.
December 6: First U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails, the rocket blowing up on the launch pad.
December 10: Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his peackeeping efforts in the United Nations.
December 18: The Bridge on the River Kwai is released in the U.S. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Additional Oscars go to Alec Guinness (Best Actor) and David Lean (Best Director), among others. This is Lean's first Oscar for directing.
December 19: Meredith Willson's classic musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, debuts on Broadway.
December 20: The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.
December 22: The CBS afternoon anthology series Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on U.S. television for the first time, although heavily abridged. (source: Wikipedia)
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