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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. -
The Catcher in the Rye
A controversial novel by J. D. Salinger, is published. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union. -
Winthrop Rockefeller
Winthrop Rockefeller and his wife Barbara are involved in a highly publicized divorce, culminating in 1954 with a record-breaking $5.5 million settlement -
Buddy Holley
Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash on February 3 with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and youth culture. -
The Mafia
The Mafia are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin. -
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression. -
Richard Nixon
Former Vice President Nixon is elected President in 1968. -
Woodstock
Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement.
