1951 Michael Keaton - Actor (Batman, Beetlejuice, Mr. Mom, Much Ado about Nothing, Pacific Heights, Night Shift, Clean and Sober, The Paper, White Noise, The Company, Birdman, Jackie Brown)

Out of all the actors who've played Batman, other than Adam West, of course, Michael Keaton WAS Batman. My opinion only.

1958 The novel Doctor Zhivago, by Russian author Boris Pasternak, was published in the US for the first time

When I saw the movie, even though the background scenery was beautiful, lacked story content so I got the book to read. Boy was I right. There was so much more to the story than the movie depicted.