is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV, almost exactly as it was performed on stage. This program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the first great TV family musical classics. March 17 – Richard Riot in Montreal: 6,000 people protest the suspension of French Canadian ice hockey star Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens by the National Hockey League, following a violent incident during a match. March 19 – KXTV signs on the air in Sacramento, California, as the 100th commercial television station in the United States. March 20 – The movie adaptation of Evan Hunter's novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song. April April 1 – EOKA starts a terrorist campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus. April 5 Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, due to ill-health, at the age of 80. Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of Chicago, by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555. April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. April 10 – In the American National Basketball Association championship, the Syracuse Nationals defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons 92–91 in Game 7, to win the title. April 11 The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai. Taekwondo, a form of Korean martial arts, is officially recognized in South Korea. April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration. April 14 – The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup in North American ice hockey for the 7th time in franchise history, but will not win again until 1997. April 14 – A 7.1 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Kangding leaving 70 dead. April 15 – The first franchised McDonald's restaurant is opened by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois. April 16 – The Burma-Japan Peace Treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries. April 17 – Imre