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More factoids from 1958:

* Seymour Cray builds the first fully-transistorized super-computer, the CDC (Control Data Corporation) 1604.
* The first transatlantic jet flight is flown by PanAm, from New York City to Paris.
* The Canadian Broadcasting Company's microwave broadcasting system is the largest television network in the world.
* A federal investigation into the Twenty-One game show scandal begins.

The show and scandal were the subject of the 1994 movie Quiz Show (an excellent movie, IMHO). Lots of supervision of game shows were put into place, and there wasn't another scandal until the infamous Press Your Luck incident in 1984.