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Alger Hiss Convicted
Alger Hiss is convicted for perjury after a jury concludes that he made false statements in denying Whittaker Chambers' allegations that the two men had known each other as Communists in the 1930s. Hiss will serve more than three years in federal prison. -
Sports and Music: FIFA World Cup
The stadium for this world cup was the worlds biggest football stadium, the Maracana. Thirteen teams attended, twentey two matches were played, and eighty eight goals were scored. -
Korean War: Cold war
Cold war conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces on Korean Peninsula. North Korean communists invade South Korea -
President Truman,
on August 25, ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike. -
Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur,
Command in Korea goes to General Ridgway -
22nd Amendment
limits president to two terms. 1st proposed by Thomas Jefferson. -
President Harry Truman
ddresses nation from Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco; 1st live coast-to-coast television broadcast. -
Ku Klux Klan
Christmas Eve bombing of the home of NAACP -
Malcolm X
After his parole he became a leader of The Nation of Islam. -
Science and teachnology: Hydrogen Bomb
The hydrogen bomb is 1,000 times more powerful than anyother bomb at the time. The bomb speed up the nuclear arms race. The bomb was set off following the soviet detonation of atomic device. -
science and technology: chevy corvette
The first chevy corvette was made in flint michigan. It had 2 seats and was meant to be an american sports car. The first car had a white outside and red interior. -
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Disneyland
Disneyland, the brainchild of Walt Disney, whose father had worked at previous world's fairs and inspired his son to build the iconic Magic Castle and other exhibits, opens in Anaheim, California, with the backing of the new television network, ABC. Disneyland California remains today as one of the greatest theme park capitals of the world and some say is second only to his second park built some years later on the other side of the country, Disney World Florida. -
Emmett Till's Murder
A 14-year-old African American teenager was brutally murdered by white men while visiting relatives in Mississippi. -
Vietnam War
Was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The U.S. government involved in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He led the Montgomery bus Boycott. -
World Events: Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Bus Seat
\The first batch of play dough was created in Cincinnati Ohio. the first color was off white and it was origanaly meant to be wallpaper cleaner. -
Interstate Highway System
Interstate highway system begins with the signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act. The interstate highway system would enable quick and efficient travel for business and leisure travelers and make destinations like Disneyland and the National Park system more easily connected to the urban population centers of the USA. -
Suez Crisis
Was a diplomatic and military confrontation between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw. -
The Space Race
It was a competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. to be the first to get to Space. -
The "Little Rock Nine"
Nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis was drafted into the Army. -
hawaii becomes a state
It is one of the smallest states, and it is the only state made up entirely of islands. The islands are the tops of volcanoes, some of them still active. -
Jimi Hendrix
After law enforcement authorities had twice caught Hendrix riding in stolen cars, he was given a choice between spending time in prison or serving in the US military: he chose the latter and enlisted in the Army. -
George Wallace, Governor of Alabama
The staunch conservative demonstrated his loyalty to the cause on June 11, 1963, when black students Vivian Malone and James A. Hood showed up at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa to attend class. In what historians often refer to as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door," the governor literally stood in the doorway as federal authorities tried to allow the students to enter. -
JFK
death of JFK -
Nike
The company was founded as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Hippie Culture
They made their way to Northern California this year. The Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States. -
Twenty-Fifth Amendment Ratified
Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, outlining the procedures for filling vacancies in the presidency and vice presidency -
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
on June 6, 1968, Robert Kennedy died from his wounds at age 42.The nation was severely shocked at the news of yet another assassination of a major public figure. Robert Kennedy was the third major assassination of the decade, following the murders of Robert's brother, John F. Kennedy, five years earlier and of the great civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. just two months earlier. -
Woodstock, 1969
Rock music festival held near Bethel, N.Y., U.S. (its site was to have been the nearby town of Woodstock), on Aug. 15–17, 1969. It attracted about 450,000 young rock fans and featured performers such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Janis Joplin. -
War Protest
Four students are shot to death by National Guardsmen during an antiwar protest at Kent State University (May 1) -
Cigarettes advertisment ban
January 2, 1971 - A ban on the television advertisement of cigarettes goes into affect in the United States. -
Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. -
Ronald Reagan/ Reaganomics
Economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics by political opponents -
Summer Olympics
President Carter announces that U.S. athletes will not attend Summer Olympics in Moscow unless Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan (Jan. 20 -
John Lennon's Murder
The Beatles' musician John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his New York City apartment on the night of Dec. 8, 1980. Lennon and wife Yoko Ono were returning from the recording studio to their home at The Dakota when 25-year-old crazed fan Mark David Chapman shot him at close range -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th president -
Challenger explodes
Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members (Jan. 28). It is the worst accident in the history of the U.S. space program -
Technoligical Advances
The World Wide Web or internet is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Whch was made on this day. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
Bombing of federal office building in Oklahoma City kills 168 people.
