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Joe Dimaggio
Joe Dimaggio was a popular baseball player for the New York Yankees. -
Doris Day
Doris Day became a popular movie star and singer. -
Harry Truman
Harry Truman started his second term as president of the United States. -
South Pacific
South Pacific was a highly popular broadway musical and hit movie. -
Joe McCarthy
Joe McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was a membor of the house of representatives, and prooved Alger Hiss guilty of being a communist spy. -
Studebaker
The Studebaker was a popular car. -
Television
Color was introduced to the television. -
Rosenburgs
The Rosenburgs were arrested, and executed for selling secrets of the automic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray was the middle-weight boxing champoin of the world. -
The Catcher and the Rye
The Catcher and the Rye was an extremely popular book among teens. -
Vaccine
The vaccine to the disease polio was discovered by Jonas Salk. -
Marciano
Rocky Marciano was the heavy-weight boxing champoin of the world. He retired undefeated. -
Santayana Good-bye
Famed philosopher George Santayana doed om 1952 -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a dictator that had millions of people executed. -
Rockefeller
Rockefeller was vice-president, who was also known has a playboy and hard drinker. -
Campanella
Roy Campanella was a catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and got paralyzed in a car accident. -
Juan Peron
Juan Peron was an anti-American and aimed at impowering the working class. -
Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley and the Comets, came out with Rock Around the Clock which was considered the first rock-and-roll hit. -
Toscanini
Toscanini was one of the greatest conductors of all time. -
Einstein
Einstein developed the theory of Relativity. -
Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett, a backwoods guy, became really popular among young boys. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley had a lot of his songs banned because of his inapproperiate dancing. -
Alabama
In Alabama there was a bus boycott. -
Khrushchev
Krushchev advocated reform, and critized Stalin. -
Trouble in the Suez
US withdrew financial support from the Egyptian damn. -
Little Rock
Nine African American students attended Little Rock Highschool and were harassed. -
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantel was a switch hitter that led the league in batting average and homeruns. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first orbiting satellite sent up to space. -
Lebanon
President sent marines into Leabanon to help stop riots -
Starkweather homicide
Srarkweather was a serial killer who killed 11-15 pople in a month and a half. -
Children of Thalidomide
This was used to prevent morning sickness over pregnancy and created severe diformities to the child. -
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly was a popular singer who got killed in a plane crash. -
Space Monkey
Ham the space monkey was sent up to space in an American satellite. -
Castro
Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictator and was sworn in as Prime Minister. He was a big time communist. -
U-2
The U-2 was a spy plane that was flew over the Soviet Union, and was later shot down. -
Kennedy
Kennedy ,was assassinated in Dallas Texas. -
Psyco
Psyco was a gruesom thriller movie. -
Eichmann
Eichmann was a Nazi leader who was convicted of war cimes, and executed. -
Berlin
The Berlin wall was constructed dividing the city into two parts, -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a planned overthrow of Castro in Cuba. -
Ole Miss
Ole Miss admitted it's first African-American student. -
John Glenn
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. -
Liston beats Patterson
Liston became the heavy-weight champoin, was feared by all other boxers., and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. -
Pope Paul
Pope Paul was the first pope to visit six continents. -
British politian sex
Secretary of State had an affair with a show girl. -
JFK blown away
Kennedy was riding in a convertible and was shot in the head. -
Richard Nixon Back Again
Richard Nixon lost the election for President in 1960, and also lost his bid for Govonor of California in 1962, then he fought back to win the Presidential election in 1968. -
Moon shot
The United States landed the first man on the moon. -
Woodstock
A farmer in the Woodstock area of New York state donated his land for a rock concert, and it became the biggest rock concert ever held. -
Watergate
Supporters and staff of President Richard Nixon were accused of breaking into the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate hotel. Nixon tried to cover the scandel up and was soon he forced to resign from office. -
Reagan
Movie actor Ronald Reagan became President of the United States. -
Sally Ride
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. -
Bernie Goetz
Bernie Goetz e got on a subway and, four African-American youths approached Goetz and demanded $5 from him. He pulled out a gun and shot all four. This brought up the debate to whether people had the right to take the law into their own hands. -
China's Under Martial Law
In 1989, thousands of protesters marched in Tiananmen Square in Bejing, China. Many were killed and China went under martial law until order was restored. -
Nelson Mandela is freed
South African activist, Nelson Mandela is freed after spending 27 years as a political prisoner. -
Oaklohoma City Bombing
168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals, were killed in the bombing of a federal building in Oaklahoma City. -
Clinton affair
After denying the afair for close to a year, the President held a press conference to admit to having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. -
9/11
A series of coordinated suicide attacks took place in the United States. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, killing everyone on board, along with many others working in the buildings. -
Facebook
Launched in 2004, Facebook later became the most popular social networking site on the web. -
Barak Obama
Barack Obama was elected the forty-fourth president of the United States in January of this year, becoming the first African American to do so.