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1955-1975
Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera -
1955-1975
Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show "Louisiana Hayride" -
1955-1975
President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war -
1955-1975
The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack -
1955-1975
Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!" -
1955-1975
Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting -
1955-1975
Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters -
1955-1975
US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver -
1955-1975
American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash aged 24 -
1955-1975
Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas -
1955-1975
RCA Records make its best investment paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley's contract -
1955-1975
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama -
1955-1975
"Heartbreak Hotel" single released by Elvis Presley, his first million-selling single -
1955-1975
US President Eisenhower announces he will seek a 2nd term -
1955-1975
650,000 US steel workers go on strike -
1955-1975
Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee -
1955-1975
IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton -
1955-1975
The Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV -
1955-1975
Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean -
1955-1975
Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to prevent 9 black students from entering a Little Rock's Central High School -
1955-1975
Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761 -
1955-1975
US President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas -
1955-1975
The motorcade carrying US Vice President Richard Nixon is attacked in Caracas, Venezuela; several of Nixon's staff are injured -
1955-1975
US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate -
1955-1975
Senator John F. Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency -
1955-1975
US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant -
1955-1975
Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army -
1955-1975
JFK announces US goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade -
1955-1975
Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in -
1955-1975
John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon who was the incumbent Vice President -
1955-1975
JFK begins underground nuclear testing -
1955-1975
200,000 march and demonstrate for African American civil and economic rights in Washington, D.C. -
1955-1975
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. -
1955-1975
American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas -
1955-1975
Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder -
1955-1975
Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone -
1955-1975
Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize -
1955-1975
Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters -
1955-1975
State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Then world's largest ever state funeral. -
1955-1975
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking -
1955-1975
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" first Peanuts animated special premieres on CBS in the US -
1955-1975
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site -
1955-1975
JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial -
1955-1975
Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign -
1955-1975
Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign -
1955-1975
US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee -
1955-1975
Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night -
1955-1975
US President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam -
1955-1975
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy -
1955-1975
Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet -
1955-1975
Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock" -
1955-1975
US President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements from 1st Jan 1971 -
1955-1975
Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) -
1955-1975
Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House - the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives -
1955-1975
Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin -
1955-1975
Cigarette advertisements banned on TV -
1955-1975
Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C. -
1955-1975
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site -
1955-1975
US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents -
1955-1975
1st hot air balloon flight over Alps -
1955-1975
Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states -
1955-1975
US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam -
1955-1975
Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp -
1955-1975
US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military -
1955-1975
US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies -
1955-1975
Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang -
1955-1975
Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President -
1955-1975
Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 -
1955-1975
US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee
