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Failed Assassination Attempt on Harry Truman
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Korean War Begins
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Comic Strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz is first published
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Period: to
1950's
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I Love Lucy premieres on CBS
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Catcher in the Rye is published
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Today Show Debuts
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McDonald's adds golden arches to its logo
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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The DOW reaches a peak since the Depression
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The Tonight Show debuts on NBC
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"Rock Around the Clock" tops the billboard charts
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Rosa Parks remains seated on the bus
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Disney Land opens in California
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Polio Vaccine is invented
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Elvis appears on The Ed Sullivan Show
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Soviets launch Sputnik
The space race begins -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
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NASA is formed
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Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states
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Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash