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1946: Cathay Pacific Airways Limited is established. 1950: UN forces recapture Seoul from the Korean People's Army. 1950: Indonesia is admitted as a member of the United Nations. 1957: The musical 'West Side Story,' adapted from Shakespeare's play 'Romeo and Juliet,' premieres on Broadway in New York, USA. 1958: China abolishes the Chahar League in Inner Mongolia, merging its territory into Xilin Gol League. 1959: China discovers the Daqing Oilfield in Heilongjiang Province. 1959: Typhoon Vera makes landfall in the Kinki region of Japan, causing over 5,000 deaths and more than 30,000 injuries, making it the deadliest typhoon in Japan since the Meiji era. 1960: John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon hold the first televised presidential debate in U.S. history. 1961: Bob Dylan makes his first public performance. 1963: The Singaporean government deploys police and military into the Nanyang University campus.