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Battle of Okinawa
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Philippines given indolence by US
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Truman Doctrine announced to Congress
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Jackie Robinson breaks barrier against colored players in Major League Baseball
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North American Treaty Organization founded
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Korean War begins
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Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president
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First color television goes on sale
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First big polio vaccination against polio
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Brown vs Board of Education
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Integration of deliberate speeds in school incorporated
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white male on a bus
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Signing of Federal Aid Highway Act
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Operation of First Transatlantic Telephone began
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated for a second time in office
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Alaska admitted as the 49th State
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Daytona 500 stock race runs for the first time
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Hawaii admitted as the 50th state
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First weather satellite is launched by the US
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To Kill a Mockingbird released
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50 star flag of the United States is debuted in Philadelphia
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Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luther King speaks at Civil Rights Rally
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First Super Bowl held in Los Angeles
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Walt Disney World Opens in Orlando, Florida
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Watergate cover up files are completed, all found guilty
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First premier of Wheel of Fortune
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Mt. St. Helens erupts in Washington State
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Ronald Regan wins election of 1980
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Stock Market Crash known as Black Monday occurs
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George Herbert Walker Bush wins election of 1988
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World Trade Center Bombed
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World Trade Center Bombed
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Civil Activist, Rosa Parks dies
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Barack Obama wins election of 2008
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Osama Bin Laden is finally killed
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Barack Obama wins election of 2012
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Donald Trumps wins election of 2016