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Public School Growth
Public Schools ordered to be set up quickly as of the Supreme Court's order (after Brown v. Board of Education) -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat
Rosa Parks does not give up her bus seat which turned out to be the beginning of a boycott expressing that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional -
First international telephone
First working telephone that could go across oceans -
First Civil Rights bill
U.S. Congress approves first civil rights bill -
First attempt of space satellite by U.S.
U.S. attempts to send a satellite in to orbit unsuccessfully -
Alaska becomes 49th State
Alaska joins the United States -
Hawaii becomes 50th State
Hawaii joins the United States -
The sit-ins
National Civil Rights protest started by four black college students in North Carolina -
Berlin Wall
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins -
Nuclear Treaty
World Powers including the U.S., the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, agree to not test nuclear devices above ground.