50 Things Turning 50

From Good Housekeeping (May 2006), here are the list of 50 things turning 50 this year:

1. My Fair Lady
2. The Interstate Highway System
3. Doris Day's "Que Sera, Sera"
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
5. The Hermes "Kelly Bag" (inspired by Grace Kelly)
6. Yahtzee
7. Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity
8. Plymouth Fury car
9. The Wizard of Oz on TV
10. Masters Tournament on TV
11. Jif peanut butter
12. Artificial intelligence
13. "In God We Trust" as our national motto
14. Elvis' hit "Heartbreak Hotel"
15. Pampers!!!
16. Cytogenetics (look it up!)
17. First hard disk drive (from IBM)
18. "Dear Abby"
19. The Hundred and One Dalmatians (the book)
20. Kim Cattrall
21. Toaster Ovens
22. Peyton Place (the book)
23. First climate-controlled shopping mall
24. Queen for a Day
25. Mel Gibson
26. Certs
27. Transatlantic phone cable
28. Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line"
29. Battery-run watches
30. As the World Turns
31. Uncle Milton's Ant Farm
32. Diorissimo perfume
33. First wireless remote control
34. Isolation of a human growth hormone
35. Godzilla (US version)
36. Martina Navratilova
37. The Hungarian Revolution
38. Pop art
39. Profiles in Courage
40. Four basic food groups
41. Tom Hanks
42. The Price Is Right
43. Videotape recorder
44. Nonstick frying pan
45. Chuck Berry's "duck walk"
46. The King and I (the movie)
47. NBC's Ann Curry
48. Scotchgard
49. Do-it-yourself haircolor
50. Play-Doh!!!