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The Korean War
The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
Malcolm X
When twenty-one, he was sentenced to prison for burglary and there encountered the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam, popularly known as the Black Muslims. Muhammad's thesis that the white man is the devil with whom blacks cannot live had a strong impact on Malcolm. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Vietnam War
It was a direct result of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) between France, which claimed Vietnam as a colony, and the communist forces then known as Viet Minh. In 1973 a “third” Vietnam war began—a continuation, actually—between North and South Vietnam but without significant U.S. involvement. -
Space Race
the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. -
Woodstock
A village in New York state, where some 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival. -
Watergate
Break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. -
Discovery of AIDS
First case of AIDS was found in San Francisco. Started because of the Hippie Movement. -
Technological Advances
The World Wide Web or internet is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Whch was made on this day.
