1950's Cultural Events

By aanderle

  • Failed Assassination Attempt on Harry Truman

  • Korean War Begins

  • Comic Strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz is first published

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    1950's

  • I Love Lucy premieres on CBS

  • Catcher in the Rye is published

    Adds fuel to the fire for the rebellious youth.

  • Today Show Debuts

  • McDonald's adds golden arches to its logo

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Declares separate schools for white and black students unconstitutional.

  • The DOW reaches a peak since the Depression

  • The Tonight Show debuts on NBC

  • "Rock Around the Clock" tops the billboard charts

  • Rosa Parks remains seated on the bus

    Evolved into the Montgomery bus boycott

  • Disney Land opens in California

  • Polio Vaccine is invented

  • Elvis appears on The Ed Sullivan Show

  • Soviets launch Sputnik

    The space race begins

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • NASA is formed

  • Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states

  • Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash