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Harry Truman
Truman became president when Franklin D. Roosevelt died. He is most known for putting an end to World War II in the Pacific by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. -
Red China Communists
Red China may refer to: Communist-controlled China (1927–49), territories held during the Chinese Civil War. People's Republic of China. China during the Cultural Revolution. -
Rosenbergs
He was convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York -
Rock Around the Clock
"Rock Around the Clock" was heard under the film's opening credits. Director Richard Brooks chose the song because he felt it captured the wild, loud energy of young people. -
England's got a new queen
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey. Her Majesty was the thirty-ninth Sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey -
Panmunjom
A village just north of the de facto border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that paused the Korean War was signed. -
Joe McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. -
Dien Bien Phu falls
the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. -
Disneyland
The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. -
Alabama
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system -
Trouble in the Suez
The Suez Crisis, also called the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
Little Rock
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit -
California baseball
Major league baseball changed forever. It was on that date that the Los Angeles Dodgers made their debut in their new home city. -
Hula hoops
Arthur Melin applied for a patent for his version of the hula hoop. He received U.S. Patent Number 3,079,728 on March 5, 1963, for a Hoop Toy. -
Space monkey
In 1959, the United States finally succeeded in sending monkeys into space and bringing them home alive. -
U2
An American U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. -
Birth control
Connecticut, went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1965 that birth control is legal for married women -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba -
Ole Miss
Battle of Oxford, was an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation beginning the night of September 30, 1962. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam. -
Woodstock
An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000. -
Sally Ride
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. -
Ayatollah's in Iran
A new Iranian constitution was approved, naming Khomeini as Iran's political and religious leader for life -
Crack
The "crack epidemic" in the United States was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. -
China's under martial law
The Chinese People's Liberation Army played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, suppressing the demonstrations by force and upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. -
Campanella
Campanella quickly established himself as one of the best hitting catchers in baseball.