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First U.S citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage -
American Baseball Catcher who played for the LA dodgers -
Communist controlled China -
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned queen after her father King George VI -
Village just north of the border of South and North Korea where the Korean armistice agreement that paused the Korean war -
The French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh -
Song by Bill Haley and his Comets -
First of two theme parks built by the legendary Walt Disney himself -
The Montgomery Bus boycott took place in Montgomery Alabama at this time. -
The Suez crisis was an invasion of Egypt by Israel with the help of the UK and France -
American Politician and attorney who served as a republican senator -
The little rock nine was a group of nine African american students that enrolled in little rock high school -
First artificial Earth satellite launched into space by the USSR -
The 1958 Major League Baseball season -
Baker and Able the Monkeys get launched into space on a Jupiter missile -
An american U2 spy plane gets shot down by the soviets while doing reconnaissance -
A failed invasion by the Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's revolution -
Segregationist protested the enrollment of James Meredith at the university of Mississippi -
Arthur Melin gets his patent for the hula hoop approved -
An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist -
Supreme court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that it was unconstitutional to prohibit married couples from using birth control -
A music festival held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York -
The 33rd President of the United States of America -
First saw use in impoverished neighborhoods in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami -
American astronaut and physicist and she was the first American woman in space and third woman in space overall -
Architect of the Iranian revolution and the first leader of the Islamic republic -
Mobilization of over 200,000 troops to impose martial law