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Ali Tanner Gump
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Joseph Mccarthy
He became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. -
The Korean War
Korean War began when some soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel. -
Ku Klux Klan
Christmas Eve bombing of the home of NAACP -
The Great Smog
Athick fog settled on London. This fog mixed with trapped black smoke to create a deadly layer of smog -
Civil Rights Movement
The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously saying that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional and shouldnt happen. -
Brown v. board of education, 1954
Supreme Court Justice delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. -
DisneyLand Opens
Disneyland opened for a few thousand specially invited visitors; the following day, Disneyland officially opened to the public. -
Emmett Tills Murder
The two men went on trial in a segregated courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi. -
James Dean Dies in Car Accident
Actor James Dean was driving his new Porsche 550 Spyder to an auto rally in Salinas, California when he was involved in a head-on collision with a 1950 Ford Tutor. -
Rosa Parks
African American woman boarded a City bus to go home from work. On this bus Rosa Parks initiated a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality. -
Fidel Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba
Castro and his group of trained rebels (the 26th of July Movement) landed on Cuban soil with the intention of starting a revolution -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws with segregation on buses, Negroes and whites was able to ride buses as equals. -
The Little Rock Nine
Historic day in the Nation when nine courageous children risked their lives to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
Peace Sign
The design was then first introduced to the public at a DAC march -
HIV/AIDS
A Manchester printer died from the failure of his immune system. Doctors baffled by what he had died from, preserved 50 of his tissue samples for inspection. In 1990, the tissues were found to be HIV-positive. -
Vietnam War
In May 1961 Kennedy sends 400 United States Army Special Forces personnel to South Vietnam to train South Vietnam soldiers also after that had a visit to the country by Vice-President Johnson. -
Assination of John F. Kennedy
A little after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
Lyndon B.Johnson
Kennedy's term completed and was elected President in his own right, -
Disco Music/ culture
Playboy Magazine used the word disco as a shorthand for a discothèque-styled nightclub -
Macolm X
1500 people attended Malcolm's funeral in Harlem -
Hippie Culture
The first clearly used instance of the term “hippie” . -
Ending Vietnam War
New York City, Civil rights leader Martin Luther King detailed his rationales for opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. King claimed that America had rejected Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary government which he said was seeking Vietnamese self-determination. -
War Protests
An anti-war demonstrations took place, as some 100,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial. -
The Space Race
Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing, touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived two years earlier. -
Assassination of Robert F.Kennedy
Democratic Party candidate Robert F. Kennedy waited all day for the election results to come in from the Democratic primary in California. -
Woodstock,1969
After much wrangling, the town of Wallkill passed a law that effectively banned the concert from their vicinity. -
Cold War
John F. Kennedy made the public claim that the U.S. would land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. His public claim was right. -
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
The U.S. got an invitation to play China at China and these were the first Americans to set foot in China since 1949. -
George Wallace , Governor of Alabama
he was wounded and left permanently paralyzed below the waist in an assassination attempet. -
First CellPhone Call
A man made his first actually call on a working cell phone. -
Richard Niixon/ Watergate scandal
The scandal also has results in the indictment, trial, conviction, and incarceration of 43 people, dozens of whom were Nixon's top administration officials. -
Gerald R. Ford
He declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts." -
Jimmy Carter
I accepted the nomination of my party to run for president of the United States. -
Jimmy Cater
n the third mile of a tough 6.2-mile race through the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland, Jimmy Carter suffered from heat exhaustion. -
Princess of Sweden
Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden. -
Superbowl
Alabama beats Arkansas in Super Bowl for college football championship -
John Lennons Murder
Lennon had celebrated his 40th birthday with his wife, Yoko Ono, and five-year-old son, Sean -
Technological Adavanes of the time period
The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn when it flies within 77,000 miles (124,000 km) of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth. -
Ronald Regan/ Reagannomic
Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as America’s 40th President on January 20, 1981, the country was experiencing some of bleakest economic times since the Depression. -
Assasination attempt of Ronald Regan
While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., Reagan and 3 others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall/ Fall of communism/breakup of soviet union
Negotiations between the Polish Government and members of the underground labor union Solidarity opened officially in Warsaw.
