1950-1960 By mwork17 Nov 18, 1950 Korean War Begins Dec 18, 1950 U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb Nov 18, 1951 Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII Dec 18, 1951 Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain Jun 18, 1952 The Great Smog of 1952 Dec 18, 1952 Polio Vaccine Created Oct 18, 1953 Joseph Stalin Dies Nov 18, 1953 DNA Discovered May 18, 1954 First Atomic Submarine Launched Nov 18, 1954 Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile May 18, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins Nov 18, 1955 Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus Jun 18, 1956 Hungarian Revolution Nov 18, 1956 T.V. Remote Control Invented Jan 18, 1957 Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat Nov 18, 1957 Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age May 18, 1958 Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward" Nov 18, 1958 NASA Founded Mar 18, 1959 Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba Jul 18, 1959 Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev