1950's By stefaniaj1995 Jan 1, 1950 First Modern Credit Card Introduced Jan 1, 1950 First Organ Transplant Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Begins Sep 3, 1950 U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb Oct 2, 1950 First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip Jan 1, 1951 South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race Jun 25, 1951 Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII Jul 19, 1951 General Douglas MacArthur fired by President Truman for comments about using nuclear weapons on China Aug 14, 1951 Color TV Introduced Oct 1, 1951 Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain Feb 6, 1952 Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25 Apr 12, 1952 Polio Vaccine Created Jul 1, 1952 Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship Sep 22, 1952 Car Seat Belts Introduced Dec 5, 1952 The Great Smog of 1952 This smog lasted from December 5 to December 9 of 1952. It was mixed with black smoke emitted from homes and factories to create a deadly smog. Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin Dies Mar 29, 1953 DNA Discovered May 29, 1953 Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest Jun 19, 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage Dec 13, 1953 First Playboy Magazine Jan 21, 1954 First Atomic Submarine Launched May 6, 1954 Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile May 7, 1954 Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman May 7, 1954 Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S. May 13, 1954 Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer May 15, 1955 McDonald's Corporation Founded Jul 18, 1955 Disneyland Opens Aug 28, 1955 Emmett Till Murdered Sep 30, 1955 James Dean Dies in Car Accident Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks Refused to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus Feb 25, 1956 Khrushchev Denounces Stalin Jun 3, 1956 T.V. Remote Control Invented Sep 3, 1956 Hungarian Revolution Sep 9, 1956 Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show Oct 29, 1956 Suez Crisis Jan 2, 1957 Dr.Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat May 22, 1957 Little Rock,Arkansas school desegregation Oct 4, 1957 Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age Nov 3, 1957 Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit Nov 11, 1957 European Economic Community Established Feb 18, 1958 Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward" Feb 28, 1958 Peace Symbol Created May 11, 1958 Hula Hoops Become Popular Jul 29, 1958 NASA Founded Oct 23, 1958 Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize Mar 12, 1959 The Sounded of Music Opens on Broadway Jul 24, 1959 Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev Sep 14, 1959 U.S. Quiz Shows Founded to be Fixed Dec 1, 1959 Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba Dec 1, 1959 International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve
