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US from 1950 - 2050
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korean war starts
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Uruguay wins the 1950 World Cup in Brazil
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Nuclear testing Stuff
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The Great Flood of 1951
In mid-July 1951, heavy rains led to a great rise of water in the Kansas River and other surrounding areas of the central United States. Flooding resulted in the Kansas, Neosho, Marais Des Cygnes, and Verdigris river basins. The damage in June and July 1951 exceeded $935 million in an area covering eastern Kansas and Missouri, which, adjusting for inflation, is nearly $7 billion in 2005.[1] The flood resulted in the loss of 17 lives and displaced 518,000 people.[2] -
I Love Lucy
The classic television show “I Love Lucy” debuted on the CBS network on October 15th of 1951. The show starred comedienne Lucille Ball as the titular Lucy Ricardo, Cuban entertainer Desi Arnaz as Lucy’s husband Ricky, with Vivian Vance and William Frawley as their goofy landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, and it revolved around Lucy’s comical antics. Arnaz and Ball were a real-life husband and wife. -
First Passenger Jet
The worlds first passenger jet is produced in UK ( The Comet ) and flies for the first time on May 2nd -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X joins the Nation of Islam and becomes the most popular minister. -
Dwight Eisenhower inaugurated President
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower inagurated President of the united States. Jan 20th 1953. -
STALIN DIES march %
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Korean War ends
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Police Car 1955
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jackson pollock diesin a car crash
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Castro
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alaska and hawaii become the 49th and 50th u.s state
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Typhoon Vera kills 5,000+
Typhoon Vera hit central Honshū on 26 September 1959, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving 1,533,000 homeless. Most of the damage was centered in the Nagoya area. -
First Televised Presidential Debates
John Kennedy and Richard Nixon debated on TV. Viewers thought Kennedy won, while radio listeners thought Nixon won, -
Cuban Missile Crisis
There was a Cubmissile crisis with the soviets but he US was like aw hell naw and won in a comlete victory -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Drea -
President Kennedy Assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. -
Programming language BASIC created
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Winston Churchill dies
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874–1965, British statesman, soldier, and author; son of Lord Randolph Churchill. -
First Super Computer
The CDC 6600, the first supercomputer, was built by Control Data Coporation , in Geneva, Switzerland -
Get Smart TV show
Get Smart was an American comedy television series that satirized the secret agent genre. It ran for five seasons. -
neil armstrong lands on the moon
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Woodstock
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". -
Watergate scandal
he Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. -
First Cellphone
Martin Cooper, of Motorola, made the first call from a mobile telephone ever. -
first home computers available
Home computers were a class of microcomputers (almost all 8-bit) entering the market in 1977, and becoming common during the 1980s. -
Pacman released
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John Lennon Dies
Popular singer / song writer and former Beatle killed outside his apartment building in New York City. -
Jamaican national bobsled team goes 1988 Olympic Games
The first ever Jamaican bobsled team heads to the Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta. Team coached by Kevin Brooks. -
first smartphone
The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon) was a handheld, touchscreen cellular phone and PDA designed and engineered by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and assembled under contract by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. BellSouth Cellular Corp. distributed the Simon Personal Communicator in the United States between August 1994 and February 1995, selling 50,000 units. The Simon Personal Communicator was the first cellular phone to include telephone and PDA features in one -
hanshin earthquake kobe japan
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Nobel Prize
Peter C. Doherty (Australia) and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Switzerland), for discoveries about how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells -
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone published
J.K. Rowling publishes her book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, bringing epicness to the world!!! -
Titanic Movie
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. -
Skype initial release date
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facbook started
Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow .. -
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Mad Men begins
Popular TV series about Madison Avenue advertising frim in the 1960's. Lauded for its realism. Runs for seven seasons. -
Police Car 2008
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Ferguson, MO police shoot Michael Brown
The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a northern suburb of St. Louis. Brown, an 18-year-old African-American male, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer. The disputed circumstances of the shooting of the unarmed young man sparked existing tensions in the majority-black city, and protests and civil unrest erupted. The events received considerable attention in the U.S. and elsewhere, attracted protesters from outside the r -
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Population Projection
Estimated population, based on current growth trends, to reach 11 billion -
Leonard Mead picked up by police
Pedestrian picked up for walking alone at night.
