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Harry Truman
Harry Truman wins presidential election in 1948 misleading the poll predictions. -
Red China
Red China(People's Republic of China) falls under communist rule of Mao Zedong -
Rosenbergs
Americans convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union -
Panmunjom Ceasefire
During the Panmunjom ceasefire talks (to end the Korean War) on October 11, 1951. -
England's got a new queen
Elizabeth ll is crowned Queen in England -
Joe McCarthy
Senator who conducts investigators looking for communists in the American Government -
Campanella
Roy Campanella won his second MVP -
Dien Bien Phu
Dien Bien Phu Fell in Vietnam after a four month siege led Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. -
Rock around the clock
A song by Billy Hayley and the Comets is released -
Disneyland
Walt Disney's metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens -
Alabama
Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Suez Crisis
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. -
Sputnik 1
The first artificial Earth satellite. -
California Baseball
It was the first season of play in California for the Los Angeles Dodgers -
Hula Hoop
Arthur Melin applied for a patent for his version of the hula hoop -
Space Monkey
A squirrel monkey, perches on a model of the Jupiter missile that launched her into space on a sub-orbital flight, along with a rhesus monkey named Able -
U2
An American U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution -
Ole Miss
Segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, an African-American veteran, at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which he outlined the philosophy of black nationalism -
Birth Control
The Supreme Court rules in Griswold v. Connecticut that married couples have a Constitutional right to privacy that includes the right to use birth control. -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. -
Ayatollah's in Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary and politician -
Sally Ride
Sally Ride became the first American woman to go into space when she flew on the space shuttle Challenger -
Crack
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
During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) played a decisive role in enforcing martial law