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Republicans win control of both houses of Congress in November elections
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William Levitt announces first Levittown
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Truman orders end to segregation in armed forces
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Minimum wage raised from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
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Gwendolyn Brooks becomes first African American woman to be awarded Pulitzer Prize
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President Truman orders the construction of the Hydrogen Bomb
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Remington Rand unveils UNIVAC, the first electronic digital computer to be marketed comercially
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Edward R. Murrow inaugurates television news show See it Now
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburn are executed for being spies
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McDonald's chooses golden arches design for its hamburger shops
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Joeseph Stalin dies
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Supreme Court orders schools desegregated in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
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Dr. Jonas Salk reports success of antipolio vaccine in April
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African Americans begin boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, bus company
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Eisenhower signs legislation creating the interstate highway system
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Congress passes first Civil Rigts Act since Reconstruction
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The soviet launch of Sputnik begins the space age
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Laika becomes the first animal into orbit.
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Charles Van Doren confesses to cheating on television quiz show "Twenty-one"
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African American college students stage sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina
