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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 the end to segregation in the armed forces.
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Truman delivered his State of the Union address that offered to the nation his broad program of reform known as the Fair Deal.
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Minimum wage was raised from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
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Gwendolyn Brooks becmes the first African American woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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Remington Rand unveils UNIVAC, the first electronic digital computer to be marketed commercially.
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Edward R. Murrow inaugurates the television news show See It Now.
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McDonald's chooses golden arches design for its hamburger shops.
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The Supreme Court orders schools desegregated in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Dr. Jonas Salk reports success of an antipolio vaccine.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger.
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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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Eisenhower beat Stevenson in the election of 1956.
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Congress passes first Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction.
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The Soviet Union launched the first satellite ever, Sputnik.
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Charles Van Doren confesses to cheating on the televison quiz show Twenty-one.
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The National Defense Education Act passed and broadened teaching of science and math.
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African American college students stage a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina.
