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the first credict card used in america
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the first transplant in 1950
Since humans naturally have two kidneys, but can live with just one, the kidney lent itself well to the process. (Of the major organs, the kidney is still the one most often transplanted.) The first attempts in the early 1950s, as in all transplant cases, were made when the only other alternative for the patient was death. These early patients briefly raised hopes by starting a good recovery, but then succumbed. The future of transplant surgery began to look very bleak. -
the second picture of the 1950 transplant
First successful kidney transplant performed
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the first comic strip
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korean war starts
The Korean War 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) 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. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean Peninsula was r -
forest gump
The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a naïve and slow-witted yet athletically prodigious native of Alabama who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States; more specifically, the period between Forrest's birth in 1944 and 1982. -
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the first colored shows
the first color program was simply called the premire the show feat. ED Sullivan,Garry Moore,and more. -
truman signs treaty with japan
After World War II, the economic world for all the participating countries was devastated. Although the United States and the Soviet Union were allies in the war, they presented greatly opposing ideas on rebuilding the countries’ economies. As the two world powers sought to influence countries that were once under Axis control, the peace between them grew uneasy. They began competing for world dominance and global power by building up their military and waging a “propaganda war” between Democrac -
the great smog
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McCarthy hearing
Anticommunist crusader Senator Joseph R. McCarthy stepped into national prominence on February 9, 1950, when he mounted an attack on President Truman’s foreign policy agenda. McCarthy charged that the State Department and its Secretary, Dean Acheson, harbored “traitorous” Communists. McCarthy’s apocalyptic rhetoric made critics hesitate before challenging him. Those accused by McCarthy faced loss of employment, damaged careers, and in many cases, broken lives. After the 1952 election, in which t -
the space race
The Space Race was an informal space exploration competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) that lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975. It involved the parallel efforts by each of those countries to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land people on the Moon. -
eichmann trial
after being found and captured in argetina nazi leader adolf eichmann,known as the architect of the final solution -
martin luther
Have a Dream" is a public speech by American activist Martin Luther King, Jr.. It was delivered by King on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.[1] -
john f. kenndy dies
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation in 1963–64 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone. -
civil rights movement
In the 1960s, Americans who knew only the potential of "equal protection of the laws" expected the president, the Congress, and the courts to fulfill the promise of the 14th Amendment. In response, all three branches of the federal government--as well as the public at large--debated a fundamental constitutional question: Does the Constitution's prohibition of denying equal protection always ban the use of racial, ethnic, or gender criteria in an attempt to bring social justice and social benefit -
malcom x death
He was shot several times as he began a speech to 400 of his followers at the Audubon Ballroom just outside the district of Harlem in New York. Malcolm X, who was 39, was taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. Two men believed to have carried out the shooting were cornered outside the ballroom by a crowd and badly beaten. Malcolm knew he would be killed Percy Sutton, Malcolm X's lawyer It took 10 police officers several minutes to rescue them. -
woodstock
The organizers of the Woodstock Festival were four young men: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang. The oldest of the four was only 27 years old at the time of the Woodstock Festival. of hppies and drugs and peace an d love -
ebola outbreaks in sudan and zaire
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the aids has been found
April 24, San Francisco resident Ken Horne, the first AIDS case in the United States to be recognized at the time, is reported to the Center for Disease Control with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). He was also suffering from Cryptococcus.[11]
