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Harry Truman beats Thomas E. Dewey, upsetting the poll predictions and became the next president -
Red China (peoples republic of china) falls under communist rule of Mao Zedong -
The courted convicted the Rosenberg's of conspiracy to commit espionage and later on April 5th they were sentenced to death -
On this day peace talks began Between the U.N. and North Korea in the village Panmunjom -
Elizabeth the second took on responsibility of the ruling monarch after the death of her father King George the sixth -
In 1953 he won his 2nd MVP while setting a record 142 RBI`s as a catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers -
He was a senator who conducted investigations looking for communist the American Government -
Rock Around the Clock was the first rock and roll record heard by millions around the world -
The french held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam and fell after a 4 month long siege led by Ho Chi Minh -
Walt Disney opens up his $17 million dollar metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy, and futurism called Disneyland -
Starting on this date the Montgomery bus boycotts start and this was one of the major events of the civil rights movement -
Was the start of the second Arabian-Israeli war and it was started by the invasion of Egypt by Israeli because the Suez canal was nationalized -
On this day Arkansas national Guard was sent to central high school to prevent 9 black students from attending the school -
On this day the soviets launched the first artificial earth satellite into an elliptical low earth orbit -
The first west coast Major league baseball game was played between the recently located Los Angles dodgers and San Francisco giants -
On this day Arthur Melin applied for patent for his hula hoop and when received in 1963 he sold 20 million hula hoops in the first six months -
On this day the United States sent two monkeys into space named Able and baker into space and they were sent up there to test the affects of space flight -
On this day Francis Gary powers was flying a American U2 spy plane that was shot down by the soviets for conducting espionage over Russia -
This was a failed attack by the CIA during Kennedy's presidency to push the cuban leader Fidel Castro out of power -
Southern segregationist rioted and fought state and federal forces to prevent the enrollment of African American James meredith into Ole miss -
He gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley and he outlined the idea of black nationalism as promoted and declared racial separatism as the best approach to problems -
Connecticut, went all the way up to the Supreme Court to legalize birth control and was later on ruled legal for married women in the U.S. -
the country was deep into the controversial Vietnam War and Woodstock was a chance for people to escape into music and spread a message of unity and peace -
On this day Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's exiled religious leader returned to Tehran and be came the supreme leader -
On this day Sally Ride became the first American woman to go into space -
The word cracked and its story made its debut in the New York Times and then the epidemic made its full liftoff and became a serious problem in American through the 1980s -
People's Liberation Army played an important role in enforcing the martial law, by force and by upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party