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  • Rockefeller

    Rockefeller
    Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller were the grandsons of John D. Rockefeller, the oil tycoon. In 1953, the Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Nelson as chair of the Presiden's Advisory Committee on Government Organization. He served as a Governor of New York from 1959 through 1973. He was the 41st VP of the U.S. from December 19, 1974 to January 20, 1977. IN 1953, Winthrop Rockefeller moved from Florida and New York to Arkansas. He was known as a playboy and hard drinker, and said

  • Rockefeller (2)

    Rockefeller (2)
    http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=122 he moved there because he loved playing the banjo. He became Governor of Arkansas in 1966 and was said to be a great influence on future Arkansas Governor and U.S. President Bill Clinton. Winthrop was probably the Rockefeller that Billy Joel was referring to, since his playboy antics were more in the news than things that Nelson was doing. Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller were the only brothers in U.S. history to serce as governors at the same time until the late 1990s.

  • Malenkov

    Malenkov
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/georgi-malenkov-succeeds-stalin Georgy Malenkov, the Societ politician and Communist Party leader, was a close collaborator of Joseph Stalin. He was the leader of the USSR for a very short period (March 1953-February 1955), after Stalin's death.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml Stalin was a Soviet Union dictator from 1929 to 1953. He had millions of people killed or sent to Siberian labor camps. In his rise to political power, he changed his name to "Stalin", which means "steel" or "Man of Steel" in Russian.

  • Nasser

    Nasser
    http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/gamal_abdel_nasser.htm Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second President of Egypt after Muhammed Naguib. He was considered one of the more influential leaders in Arab history.

  • Communist bloc

    www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/macdon.htm USSR and their satellite countries formed what was called the Communist bloc. The Communist bloc was a group of nations with a common law of Communism.

  • Campanella

    Campanella
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/camparo01.shtml Roy Campanella, the all-star catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. He was in a car accident that left him paralyzed and unable to play ball anymore.

  • Prokofiev

    Prokofiev
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmq1cpcglQ Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev, a famous Ukranian composer, died this year.

  • Toscanini

    Arturo Toscanini was a world-famous conductor.. He was consider to be on elf the greatest classical conductors. On April, 4 1954,  he was conducting a radio broadcast on NBC Symphony at the Carnegie Hall in New York, he suffered a memory laps during his performance. This was the last time he ever conducted in public. He died at the age of 89 in 1957.

  • Dacron

    In 1954, Dacron was released into the public and was though of as a wonder material. It was made out of polyethylene terephthalate, or PETE.PETE was also a recyclable plastic, but the main use of Dacron was synthetic polyester fabric.

  • Rock Around the Clock

    Bill Haley and the Comets came out with what was considered the first rock-and-roll hit song, Rock Around the Clock. This song was the theme for the popular movie Blackboard Jungle.

  • Dien Bien Phu falls

    Dien Bien Phu fallsThe French lost control of Veitnam when the city of Dien Bein Phu fell on May, 7 1954. A bloody battle known the Veit Minh regained control of Dien Bein Phu.

  • Jaun Perón

    A popular leader i Argentina who was elected in 1946 and once more in 1952. He pursued many social policies that were mainly aimed at empowering the working class. His wife Evita was well-known for helping the poor. He was strongly ant-american and ant-british, he confiscated many of the vBritish and American assets owned in Argentina. In 1955, he was overthrown by a military coup, and in 1973 he soon returned to power, but shortly died in 1974. 

  • Roy Cohn

    An advisor for Senator Joseph McCarthy,during the hearings on communism in both the movie and government industry. Cohn and McCarthy were both involved in a scandal that discredited the secretary of the army, Robert Stevens. Cohn was a rumored homosexual, his partner known as David Schine. He abused his political power by using his privileges to not draft his partner Schine. In 1908, Cohn was disbarred from practicing law on grounds of unethical and unprofessional conduct.He soon became in conta