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First Modern Credit Card Introduced
20,000 people were using the Diners Club credit card. -
Pres. Harry Truman
( 'til 1952) approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends air force and navy to Korea in June. -
- Transcontinental television
begins with a speech by Pres. Truman. -
The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952
removes racial and ethnic barriers to becoming a U.S. citizen. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower is president through 1961 -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
are electrocuted for their part in W.W.II espionage. -
fighting
Fighting ends in Korea. -
Racial segregation is ruled unconstitutional
in public schools by the U.S. Supreme Court. -
U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
begins televised hearings into alleged Communists in the army. -
Dr. Jonas Salk
developed a vaccine for polio -
American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations
merge making the new AFL-CIO an organization with 15 million members -
Rosa Parks refuses
to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Federal Highway Act
is signed, marking the beginning of work on the interstate highway system. -
Explorer I
the first U.S. satellite, successfully orbits the earth. -
Alaska and Hawaii
become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states
