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Republicans
Republicans win control of both houses of Congress in November elections -
Levittown
William Levitt announces first Levittown -
Segregation
Truman orders end to segregation in armed forces -
Minimum wages
Minimum wage raised from 40 to 75 cents an hour. -
Pulitzer Prize
Gwendolyn Brooks becomes first African American woman to be awarded Pulitzer Prize -
H Bomb
President Truman orders the construction of the Hydrogen Bomb -
UNIVAC
Remington Rand unveils UNIVAC, the first electronic digital computer to be marketed comercially -
"See it Now"
Edward R. Murrow inaugurates television news show See it Now -
Russian Spies
Julius and Ethel Rosenburn are executed for being spies -
McDonalds
McDonald's chooses golden arches design for its hamburger shops -
Stalin
Joeseph Stalin dies -
Brown vs. B.O.E of Topeka
Supreme Court orders schools desegregated in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka -
Dr. Jonas Salk
Dr. Jonas Salk reports success of antipolio vaccine in April -
Boycott of bus company
African Americans begin boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, bus company -
Interstate Highway System
Eisenhower signs legislation creating the interstate highway system -
Civil Rights Act
Congress passes first Civil Rigts Act since Reconstruction -
Sputnik
The soviet launch of Sputnik begins the space age -
Laika
Laika becomes the first animal into orbit. -
Twenty-one
Charles Van Doren confesses to cheating on television quiz show "Twenty-one" -
College Sit in
African American college students stage sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina
