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The Korean War
Was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. -
First Modern Organ Transplant
A kidney was transplanted from Ronald Herrick into his identical twin, On December 23, the first successful living-related kidney transplant led by Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital in Boston - -
FDA approves the pill
the FDA approved the pill, granting greater reproductive freedom to American women. clinical tests of the pill, which used synthetic progesterone and estrogen to repress ovulation in women, were initiated in 1954.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world’s first commercially produced birth-control bill–Enovid-10, -
JFK Gave The On the Moon Speech
In this speech, JFK stated that the United States should set as a goal the "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" by the end of the decade. "Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs,He also talked about the space program -
Computer Floppy
IBM introduced the first "memory disk", as it was called then, or the "floppy disk" as it is known today. The first floppy was an 8-inch flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic iron oxide. -
U.S. pulls out of Veitnam
America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end.Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. -
Mikhail Baryshnikov
The defection of Russian ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov in June 1974 has to rank as the most sensational off-stage drama.while on tour in Canada with the Kirov Ballet, Baryshnikov defected, requesting political asylum in Toronto, and joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. -
Vietnam War
1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War. After the South Vietnamese army folded under NVA pressure the Fall of Saigon was inevitable. The US started evacuating its citizens but to not alarm the South Vietnamese they left under a number of pretexts including Operation Babylift. On April 30, 1975 Saigon fell and the Vietnam War was over -
First Ebola outbreak
The current outbreak in West Africa, (first cases notified in March 2014), is the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak since the Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976. There have been more cases and deaths in this outbreak than all others combined. -
Jimmy Cater
In the third mile of a tough 6.2-mile race through the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland, Jimmy Carter suffered from heat exhaustion. -
Cold War
Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine which, in addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments. -
Technoligical Advances
The World Wide Web or internet is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Whch was made on this day.
