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President Harry Truman pubically announces the development of the hydrogen bomb
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Walt Disneys Cinderella was released.
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The first peanuts comic by Charles M. Schulz was relased in seven newspapers
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Eisenhower signs the Communist Control Act. Outlawing the communist party
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Walt Disneys first television program "Disneyland" aired on ABC
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The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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US tested nuclear weapons at Nevada Test Site
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Dr. Joseph Salk successfully tested his Polio Vaccine
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Warsaw pact was signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
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President Eisenhower raised minimum wage form 75 cents to $1 an hour
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
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US explodes first hydrogen bomb over a island named Bikini Atoll
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the last episode of I Love Lucy airs on CBS-TV
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US launches their first artifical satelite
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President Eisenhower signed into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
