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Little Rock
Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas, is a city on the Arkansas River. It’s home to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museu -
California baseball
The California Golden Bears baseball team represents the University of California in NCAA Division I college baseball. Along with most other California athletic teams -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. -
Red China
Communist-controlled China (1927–49), territories held during the Chinese Civil War. -
Campanella
"Campy", was an American baseball player, primarily as a catcher. The Philadelphia native played in the Negro leagues and Mexican League for 9 years before entering the minor leagues in 1946. -
Space Monkey
The U.S. was the first country ever to launch a primate, sending a rhesus monkey named Albert to a sub-space altitude of 39 miles aboard a V2 rocket in June 1948. -
China is Under Material Law
The first declaration of nationwide martial law was enacted by President Chiang Kai-shek on December 10, 1948. -
Birth Control
Gregory Pincus and John Rock with help from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America developed the first birth control pills in the 1950s -
Sally Ride
Sally Ride joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 she became the first AMERICAN female to visit space. She was the third female overall -
England's got a new queen
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June, 1953 in Westminster Abbey. Her Majesty was the thirty-ninth Sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey. 3. -
"Rock Around the Clock¨
"Rock Around the Clock" is a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter being under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight") in 1952. -
Dien Bien Phu Falls
French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the French pulled out of the region. -
Disneyland
Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, which opened on July 17, 1955. -
Trouble in the Suez
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, 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 -
Rosenbergs
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple was accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs. -
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 -
Edsel is a no-go
Ford Motor Company introduced the 1958 model Edsel automobile on September 4, 1957. Billy Joel correctly says that in 1959, the Edsel was a no-go, meaning that it flopped, and was discontinued. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into Earth orbit by the USSR on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. -
Alabama
Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state that’s home to significant landmarks from the American Civil Rights Movement. The city of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, now a museum, was a protest headquarters in the 1960s -
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 Riot
Was an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation beginning the night of September 30, 1962, they were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith -
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. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" -
Punk Rock
music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. -
Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president. -
¨Wheel of Fortune¨
Wheel of Fortune is an American tv game show created by Merv Griffin. The first-ever episode aired on January 6, 1975. Where you can solve puzzles and other games for cash prizes -
U2
U2 is an Irish rock band from Dublin, formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. -
Panmunjom
Bonifas, was slain by North Korean People's Army soldiers on August 18, 1976, when they attempted to prune a tree blocking the view between two outposts near the Bridge of No Return.