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Black Monday
Black Monday is when the stock market crashed. -
Elvis Presley
Rock and Roll devolved from the blues and rhythm. Little Richard is one of the greatest inventers of rock and roll music in 1950’s.Beging artist of rock and roll where Muddy Waters, Willie Mae Thornton, Joe Turner, and Ray Charles. Elvis Presley was the “king” of rock and roll in the 1950’s and is still known as the “king” today. -
Rosenbergs
Julius Rosenberg was arrest in July 1950, and his wife Ethel Rosenberg was arrested in August of the same year. They were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage (the practice of spying, or of using spies to obtain secret information). They were accused of heading a spy ring that passes top-secret information concerning an atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. On April 5, 1951 the Rosenberg’s were sentenced to death. -
I love Lucy
Television was first found in Malvern, Arkansas in 1951. Everything in the 1950’s that was showed other than movies were all broadcasted live. Almost all the programs on T.V where western, singers, games, comedy, wrestling and cartoons. The first channel to go on air was channel 11. For many of the months programs started in the Mid-Afternoon and ended around 9-10p.m. A very popular show in the 1950’s was the show “I Love Lucy” -
Disney Land
Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955 but only a few thousand people where specially invited visitors. After the few thousand people came in to visit the park, the park was officially open! Disney land was built in Anaheim, California on 160-acre orange orchard and it cost $17 million to build the park. The Original park that they first built only included Main street, Adventure land, Frontier land, Fantasyland, and Tomorrow land. -
Rosa Parks
In Montgomery the first 10 seats on a bus were reserved for whites. One day when Rosa Parks got on the bus and sat in one of the front seats. The bus driver told her to move so a white person could sit there, but she refused and was arrested for disobeying the law. Many blacks got angry that she was arrested so they started the bus boycott. -
Bay of Pigs
In April 1961, the U.S attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, then on the 17th of April about 1,300 exiles armed with U.S weapons landed at Bahia de Cochiona (Bay of pigs) on the southern coast of Cuba. They hoped to gain support from local populations to overthrow Castro, but they were quickly defeated by Castro’s army. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The U.S armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and the Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. Luckily President JFK and Premier Nitkita Khrushchev, was averted. -
JFK
John F. Kennedy was born in 1917 and died 1963. He was the 35th president of the united states of America. Kennedy was born in a wealthy family in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard and served the navy during World War 2. He was elected the United states senate twice. Once in 1952 and in 1958. He was elected president. Kennedy was associated in 1963 on November 22 in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Apollo 11 Mission
In 1969, as a part of Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong became the very first person to land on the moon. His accomplishment placed the United States ahead of the soviet in the “Space Race” He landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. People on board with him Where himself (Neil Armstrong), Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins. -
Abortions
In the 1960’s people tried to push for abortion to become legal. In the 1970’s they said that abortion is okay if it was done in a facility by a doctor. A few other states passed the similar law. Women who could afford abortion went to these states so they get abortion. Women networks offered support and loans for women who couldn’t afford abortions. -
Sears Tower
The first designs were for the Sears Tower was a boxy structure exclusively for this specific building, but the architects and real estate advisors pressed for a taller tower, with upper floors for tenants. The building slowly stretched to be 4.5 million ft2 and 110 stories. -
200th Birthday
The U.S. Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during of mid-1970s that paid tribute to the historical events leading up to the creation of the United States of America as an independent republic. The Bicentennial culminated on Sunday July 4, 1976 with the 200thanniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence -
Test Tube Baby
On July 25, 1978 Louise Joy Brown, was the world’s first successful “test-tube” baby was born in Great Britain. Through the technology that made her conception possible was heralded as a triumph in medicine and science. -
Jonestown Massacre
The Jonestown massacre, which had a death toll of 918 people, was the most deadly single non-natural disaster in U.S. history up until 9/11. The Jonestown Massacre also remains the only time in history in which a U.S. congressman was killed in the line of duty. -
Crack Cocaine
In the 80’s a smoke able form of cocaine was introduced into the united states as Crack. People start to abuse crack and cocaine and people where very concern about the drug abuse. -
John Lennon's death
John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his apartment December 8, 1980. He was a member of the Beatles Lennon and wife Yoko Ono were returning from the recording studio to their home at The Dakota when 25-year-old crazed fan Mark David Chapman shot him at close range. -
Aids
Aids were discovered in the 1980’s, when doctors in the U.S. noticed clusters of patients suffering from highly unusual diseases. The first time aids were seen was in gay men in New York and California. AIDS is triggered by a virus acquired through direct contact with infected body fluids. The virus causes an immune deficiency by attacking a type of white blood cell that helps to fight infections. -
Rodney King
On March 3, 1991 paroled felon Rodney King led police on a high speed chase through the streets of Los Angeles County before eventually surrendering. Intoxicated and uncooperative King resisted arrest and was brutally beaten by police officers Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, and Timothy Wind. Police beat King with their batons and kicking him long after he was capable of resistance. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 5,000-pound bomb, hidden inside a Ryder truck, exploded just outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion caused massive damage to the building and killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children. Those responsible for what became known as the Oklahoma City Bombing were home-grown terrorists, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. -
Dolly the cloned sheep
Dolly the sheep has officially been cloned! Scientists in Scotland cloned a ewe by inserting DNA from a single sheep cell into an egg and implanted it in a surrogate mother. They now have a healthy 7 month old sheep, which is an exact genetic duplicate of the animal from which the single cell was taken. -
Columbine High School ahooting
On April 20, 1999, in Littleton, Colorado, two high-school seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, enacted an all-out assault on Columbine High School during the middle of the day. The boys' plan was to kill hundreds of their peers. With guns, knives, and a multitude of bombs, the two boys walked the hallways and killed. When the day was done, twelve students, one teacher, and the two murderers were dead; plus 21 more were injured. -
Presidential Election
Presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. The contest was between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore. Bush narrowly won the election. -
Shoe Bomber
Richard Colvin Reid also known as the Shoe Bomber is and Englishman who attempted to take explosives that were packed into his shoes. Reid pleaded guilty to his crime in 2002 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. -
9/11
Four airplanes were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. 2 planes crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center. The buildings collapsed within two hours. The 3rd plan went into the pentagon, and the 4rth plan was targeting Washington D.C. but crashed into a field near Shankville, Pennsylvania. -
Virginia Tech Shooting
April 16, 2007 a senior at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks that were about 2 hours apart. Before the person committed suicide another 6 people were injured but escaped from classroom windows. -
Airbus
January 15, 2009 the Airbus A320-214 was flying on a route and struck a flock of Canadian geese during initial climb out, lost engine power, and ditched in the Hudson River off midtown Manhattan. -
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
On December 14th 2012, Adam Lanza (20) shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at sand hook elementary school in Sandy Hook Newtown, Connecticut. Before the shooter headed to the school he shot and killed his mother Nancy at their home. As the first responders arrived he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. The shooting promoted renewed debate about gun control in the United States.
