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Congress passes the GI Bill of Rights
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Dr. Spock publishes the Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
In 1946 Dr. spock comes with a contreversial book on child care. -
Congress passes the Tafty-Hartley Act. The first transistor is invented, spurring growth in computers and electronics
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Thor Heyerdahl and his creww sail the raft Kon-tiki from Peru to Polynesia
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English novelist George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published
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Disc jockey and music promoter Alan freed begins hosting a radio show, featuring musictaht comes to be known as "rock and roll"
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The double-helix model for DNA is formulated in London
Dna structure was finally discovery and rebuilt. -
Successful tests are conducted on a polio vaccine
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The Federal-Aid Highway Act funds an interstate highway system
President Eisenhower funds to build the interstate highway. -
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik
The space race finally begins as the soviet union launches the sputnik.