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Rock and Roll
This was the music of the 50's. Teenagers listened to this while their parents listened to Sinatra and did not accept their music very well. -
First TV
The first black and white television came out around 1953. Lots of people had mixed emotions. -
Grand Opening of Disneyland
Disneyland opened in 1955. It was ceated by Walt Disney. The plans started with Disney wanting to build a park near his studio for his employees and their families, but those plans were evolved into a giant amusement park. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was arrested on this date. She sat in the front of the bus, but that was only for the whie poeple. Durring this time period society was very segregated. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis was most popular during the late 50's to the early 70's. HE was a major face in music and still is. Elvis changed Music forever. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen day long stand off between the USSR and the US The USSR had missiles in Cuba that they were going to shoot at the US. The president threatened to shoot at the USSR and at last minute the USSR turned back. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21,1965 by his own people. They thought that he was becoming more passive than when he started. Malcolm X was a revolutionary. He wanted to change the way people treated the african americans. -
Riots in the Streets
The Detroit riot was a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan. That began in the morning of Sunday, July 23, 1967. This riot lasted five days. To help end the disturbance, Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan National Guard into Detroit, and President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in Army troops. The result with this was 43 dead, 467 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. -
My Lai Massacre
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First Man on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the first space mission to go to the moon. the first man on the moon was Lance Armstrong. he said the famous words "one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind" -
Abortion
Between 1967 and 1973 one-third of the states liberalized or repealed their criminal abortion laws. However, the right to have an abortion in all states was only made available to American women in 1973 when the Supreme Court struck down the remaining restrictive state laws with its ruling in Roe v. Wade. -
VCR
VCRs were an older way of watching movies. They were large rectangles that played movies or other shows. -
Kent State
A protest involving college students turned violent and the National Guard was called in. During the protest one of the National Guard members thought they heard a gunshot so the other members began to shoot into the crowd killing 4 people including two women who were walking to class. -
Test Tube Babies
The first successful test tube baby was born on July 25, 1978 in Great Brittain. The process that made this possible was invented to help those who could not give birth to have a family. -
Jonestown Killings
Reverend Jim Jones led 909 of his followers to their death in a place in South American jungle. Only 33 of the followers survived. Jones convinced his followers that someone was comming to get them so they willingly drank kool-aid laced with cyanide. -
Mt. Saint Helens
57 people killed in volcano erruption. There is an active volcano in Washington. -
Crack Cocain
A lot of people were doing crack cocaine in the 80s. This includes the women of this time. Pregnant women who did crack cocaine would hurt their babies. These babies would have a higher risk of being miscarriage, preterm labor, poor fetal growth, low birth weight, increased risk of birth defects, physical malformations, risk of stroke and heart damage during development and increased risk of brain damage. -
John Lennon Killed
John Lennon was shot and killed on Decmeber 8th, 1980. Lennon and wife Yoko Ono were returning from the recording studio to their home at The Dakota when 25-year-old crazed fan Mark David Chapman shot him at close range. -
Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. -
Black Monday
On October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones) lost almost 22% in a single day. That event marked the beginning of a global stock market decline, making Black Monday one of the most notorious days in recent financial history. By the end of the month, most of the major exchanges had dropped more than 20%. -
L.A. Riots
In 1992 Los Angeles broke out into a riot. This was one of the largest riots in US history. The riot was first started in South Los Angeles and then eventually spread out into other areas over a six-day period within the Los Angeles metropolitan area in California during April in 1992. The riots started on April 29 after a trial jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers of assault and use of excessive force. -
O.J. Simpson
The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held in Los Angeles County, California Superior Court. O.J. Simpson was a football star and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder following the June 1994 deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman. The case has been described as the most publicized criminal trial in American history. -
Rap music
Rap music is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that raps, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. -
Clone Sheep
Scientists made a cole of a sheep. Her name was Dolly, and she was born in 1996. She was born in Scotland. -
Columbine
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot and killed 15 people when they brought guns to Columbine University. -
9-11
Terrorists hijack two air planes and flew them into the twin towers. This attack killed almost 3,000 people. Of those killed there were firefighters and other first responders. -
Minneapolis Bridge Collapsing
The Mississippi River bridge was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that went across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, it suddenly collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. -
Dark Knight Shootings
Holmes shot and killed 12 and injured many more when he entered the premier of the Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. -
America's 200th Birthday
America’s 200th birthday was also the 16th president and one of the world's greatest leaders. This was a huge deal for America. -
The Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School
Adam Lanza shot twenty children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.