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What happend in the 50's
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Famous T.V show
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a thick fog settled on London. This fog mixed with trapped black smoke to create a deadly layer of smog. Although there was no great panic at the time, the smog proved deadly. In the five days it hovered over London, the smog killed 4,000 people. In the following weeks, another 8,000 people died from exposure to the Great Smog of 1952
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it was confirmed by Oswald Avery
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first ever telivised coronation
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even though ruled illegal, it took many years, and bloodshead to fully come into function.
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created by Jonas Salk
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was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States
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The revolt began as a student demonstration which attracted thousands as it marched through central Budapest to the Parliament building. A student delegation entering the radio building in an attempt to broadcast its demands was detained. When the delegation's release was demanded by the demonstrators outside, they were fired upon by the State Security Police from within the building. The news spread quickly and disorder and violence erupted throughout the capital.
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was a satalite launched in space
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British artist Gerald Holtom drew a circle with three lines inside, intending the design to be a symbol for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War
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response to soviets launching air craft into space. Comonly known as response to them and known as space race
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On January 1, 1959, Batista admitted defeat and left the country. Although not at first appointed president, Castro succeeded in taking power of the new Cuban government by July 1959.