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Cold war conflict between communist and noncommunist on the Korean Peninsula
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Truman speaks in the first coast to coast live television broadcast
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Is detonated by the U.S on Eniwetok, an atoll in the Marshall Islands
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for passing secret information about the first Hydrogen bomb to the Soviets.
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Declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
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First American satellite, is launched
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Alaska becomes the 49th state
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Becomes the 50th state
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Delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech to a crowd of 200,000 people
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Was Assassinated in Dallas Texas
