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Korean War Begins
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U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
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Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII
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Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain
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The Great Smog of 1952
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Polio Vaccine Created
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Joseph Stalin Dies
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DNA Discovered
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First Atomic Submarine Launched
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Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile
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Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins
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Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
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Hungarian Revolution
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T.V. Remote Control Invented
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Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat
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Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age
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Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward"
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NASA Founded
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Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba
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Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev