attention in the United States. February 26 – The Revolutionary Communist Party of India stages attacks at Dum Dum. March March 1 World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires. Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch. March 2 – The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II (under Captain James Gallagher) lands in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight (it was refueled in flight 4 times). March 17 – The Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Texas, owned by oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy, has its grand opening. March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Denver and Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long-distance train to feature Vistadome cars as regular equipment. March 21 – WTVJ signs on the air in Miami, Florida, as the first station in the state. March 24 – The 21st Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The movie Hamlet wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. March 25 Operation Priboi: An extensive deportation campaign begins in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltic states to remote areas of the Soviet Union. A first issued of weekly magazine Paris Match published in France. March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television. March 28 United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly. English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang during a BBC Third Programme radio broadcast. March 30 – The anti-NATO riot takes place, prompted by the decision of the Icelandic parliament to join the newly formed NATO. March 31 – The former British colony of Newfoundland joins Canada, as its 10th province. April April 4 – The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance. April 7 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on Broadway, and goes on to become Rodgers and Hammerstein's second longest-running musical. It becomes an instant classic of the musical theatre. The score's biggest hit is the song "Some Enchanted Evening". April 8 – Kathy Fiscus,