Billy Joel Project

  • Rosenbergs

    Rosenbergs
    First U.S citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage
  • Roy Campanella

    Roy Campanella
    American Baseball Catcher who played for the LA dodgers
  • Red China

    Red China
    Communist controlled China
  • Englands got a new queen

    Englands got a new queen
    Queen Elizabeth II was crowned queen after her father King George VI
  • Panmunjom

    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

    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

    Rock Around the Clock
    Song by Bill Haley and his Comets
  • Disneyland

    Disneyland
    First of two theme parks built by the legendary Walt Disney himself
  • Alabama

    Alabama
    The Montgomery Bus boycott took place in Montgomery Alabama at this time.
  • Trouble in the Suez

    Trouble in the Suez
    The Suez crisis was an invasion of Egypt by Israel with the help of the UK and France
  • Joseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy
    American Politician and attorney who served as a republican senator
  • Little Rock

    Little Rock
    The little rock nine was a group of nine African american students that enrolled in little rock high school
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    First artificial Earth satellite launched into space by the USSR
  • California Baseball

    California Baseball
    The 1958 Major League Baseball season
  • Space Monkey

    Space Monkey
    Baker and Able the Monkeys get launched into space on a Jupiter missile
  • U2

    U2
    An american U2 spy plane gets shot down by the soviets while doing reconnaissance
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    A failed invasion by the Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's revolution
  • Ole Miss

    Ole Miss
    Segregationist protested the enrollment of James Meredith at the university of Mississippi
  • Hula Hoops

    Hula Hoops
    Arthur Melin gets his patent for the hula hoop approved
  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X
    An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist
  • Birth Control

    Birth Control
    Supreme court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that it was unconstitutional to prohibit married couples from using birth control
  • Woodstock

    Woodstock
    A music festival held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York
  • Harry Truman

    Harry Truman
    The 33rd President of the United States of America
  • Crack

    Crack
    First saw use in impoverished neighborhoods in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami
  • Sally Ride

    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

    Ayatollah's in Iran
    Architect of the Iranian revolution and the first leader of the Islamic republic
  • China under martial law

    China under martial law
    Mobilization of over 200,000 troops to impose martial law