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Harry Truman
Harry Truman beats Thomas E. Dewey, upsetting the poll predictions and became the next president -
Red China Communist
Red China (peoples republic of china) falls under communist rule of Mao Zedong -
Rosenbergs
The courted convicted the Rosenberg's of conspiracy to commit espionage and later on April 5th they were sentenced to death -
Panmunjom
On this day peace talks began Between the U.N. and North Korea in the village Panmunjom -
England's got a new queen
Elizabeth the second took on responsibility of the ruling monarch after the death of her father King George the sixth -
Campanella
In 1953 he won his 2nd MVP while setting a record 142 RBI`s as a catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Joe McCarthy
He was a senator who conducted investigations looking for communist the American Government -
Rock Around the Clock
Rock Around the Clock was the first rock and roll record heard by millions around the world -
Dien Bien Phu falls
The french held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam and fell after a 4 month long siege led by Ho Chi Minh -
Disenyland
Walt Disney opens up his $17 million dollar metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy, and futurism called Disneyland -
Alabama
Starting on this date the Montgomery bus boycotts start and this was one of the major events of the civil rights movement -
Trouble in the Suez
Was the start of the second Arabian-Israeli war and it was started by the invasion of Egypt by Israeli because the Suez canal was nationalized -
Little Rock
On this day Arkansas national Guard was sent to central high school to prevent 9 black students from attending the school -
Sputnik
On this day the soviets launched the first artificial earth satellite into an elliptical low earth orbit -
California baseball
The first west coast Major league baseball game was played between the recently located Los Angles dodgers and San Francisco giants -
hula hoops
On this day Arthur Melin applied for patent for his hula hoop and when received in 1963 he sold 20 million hula hoops in the first six months -
space monkey
On this day the United States sent two monkeys into space named Able and baker into space and they were sent up there to test the affects of space flight -
U2
On this day Francis Gary powers was flying a American U2 spy plane that was shot down by the soviets for conducting espionage over Russia -
Bay of Pigs invasion
This was a failed attack by the CIA during Kennedy's presidency to push the cuban leader Fidel Castro out of power -
Ole Miss
Southern segregationist rioted and fought state and federal forces to prevent the enrollment of African American James meredith into Ole miss -
Malcolm X
He gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley and he outlined the idea of black nationalism as promoted and declared racial separatism as the best approach to problems -
Birth control
Connecticut, went all the way up to the Supreme Court to legalize birth control and was later on ruled legal for married women in the U.S. -
Woodstock
the country was deep into the controversial Vietnam War and Woodstock was a chance for people to escape into music and spread a message of unity and peace -
Ayatollah's in Iran
On this day Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's exiled religious leader returned to Tehran and be came the supreme leader -
Sally Ride
On this day Sally Ride became the first American woman to go into space -
crack
The word cracked and its story made its debut in the New York Times and then the epidemic made its full liftoff and became a serious problem in American through the 1980s -
China's under martial law
People's Liberation Army played an important role in enforcing the martial law, by force and by upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party