50's

By shelbydenise

  • Jackie Robinson signs dogers highest contract

  • Korean War begins

  • first peanuts cartoon strip

  • 22nd amendment got ratified: president allowed 2 terms

  • Truman signs peace treaty with Japan ending WWII

  • first transcontinental television broadcast

  • tornados ravage Mississippi ares

  • nuclear test in Nevada

  • polio vaccine created

  • Joseph Stalin dies

  • first colored tv introduced

  • first siamese twins seperated

  • first shopping mall opened in Mich.

  • segregation ruled illegal in US

  • Hurrican Edna hits NYC

  • mcdonalds founded

  • disneyland opens

  • Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat

  • 7th winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezz, Italy

  • tv remote first invented

  • velcro introduced

  • first electric watch

  • first black pilot flew passanger airline

  • worlds longest suspension bridge opens Mich.

  • first US satellite launched (explorer 1)

  • Elvis joins the army

  • Nasa's formed

  • Alaska became a state

  • first Dayton 500 race

  • first colored photograph of earth from outerspace