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England's got a new queen
Queen Elizabeth II succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom
and the Commonwealth Realms upon the death of George VI of the United Kingdom and is
crowned the next year.Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926[note 1]) is the constitutional monarch of
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The vaccine for polio
The vaccine for polio is privately tested by Jonas Salk.Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat poliomyelitis
(or polio). The first was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in 1952. Announced to the world by Salk on
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhowers first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.
October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. Prior to that he was a five-star
general in the United States Army. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76. 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born
theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting
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James Dean
James Dean achieves success with East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, gets nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Actor, and dies in a car accident on September 30 at the age of 24.
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American film actor.
[1] He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film,
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager
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Brooklyn's got a winning team
Brooklyn's got a winning team: The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series for the only time
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California.
The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883,
the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number
of nicknames before becoming the Dodgers definitively by 1932
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin's "cult of personality" on February 23.
Khrushchev criticized actions taken by the regime of Joseph Stalin –
particularly the purges of the military and the upper party echelons,
and the development of Stalin's personality cult – while maintaining
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Princess Grace
Princess Grace Kelly releases After embarking on an acting career in 1950,
at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions
as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions broadcast
during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television -
Budapest
Budapest Hungarian Revolution or Uprising [4] of 1956
was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government
of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies,
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Alabama
Alabama is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA.
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr figure prominently.The next morning at a church meeting led by the new MIA head,
King, a citywide boycott of public transit was proposed to demand a fixed dividing line for the
segregated sections of the buses. Such a line would have meant that if the white section of the
bus was oversubscribed, whites would have to stand; blacks would
