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Rosenbergs
First U.S citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage -
Roy Campanella
American Baseball Catcher who played for the LA dodgers -
Red China
Communist controlled China -
Englands got a new queen
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned queen after her father King George VI -
Panmunjom
Village just north of the border of South and North Korea where the Korean armistice agreement that paused the Korean war -
Dien Bien Phu Falls
The French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh -
Rock Around the Clock
Song by Bill Haley and his Comets -
Disneyland
First of two theme parks built by the legendary Walt Disney himself -
Alabama
The Montgomery Bus boycott took place in Montgomery Alabama at this time. -
Trouble in the Suez
The Suez crisis was an invasion of Egypt by Israel with the help of the UK and France -
Joseph McCarthy
American Politician and attorney who served as a republican senator -
Little Rock
The little rock nine was a group of nine African american students that enrolled in little rock high school -
Sputnik
First artificial Earth satellite launched into space by the USSR -
California Baseball
The 1958 Major League Baseball season -
Space Monkey
Baker and Able the Monkeys get launched into space on a Jupiter missile -
U2
An american U2 spy plane gets shot down by the soviets while doing reconnaissance -
Bay of Pigs
A failed invasion by the Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's revolution -
Ole Miss
Segregationist protested the enrollment of James Meredith at the university of Mississippi -
Hula Hoops
Arthur Melin gets his patent for the hula hoop approved -
Malcolm X
An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist -
Birth Control
Supreme court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that it was unconstitutional to prohibit married couples from using birth control -
Woodstock
A music festival held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York -
Harry Truman
The 33rd President of the United States of America -
Crack
First saw use in impoverished neighborhoods in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami -
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist and she was the first American woman in space and third woman in space overall -
Ayatollah's in Iran
Architect of the Iranian revolution and the first leader of the Islamic republic -
China under martial law
Mobilization of over 200,000 troops to impose martial law