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Credit Card

Mar 17, 1950

First Modern Credit Card Introduced
First Organ Transplant
First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
Korean War Begins
Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb

McCarthyism

Sep 30, 1950

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."[1] The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression against communists, as well as

Color TV

Jun 27, 1951

First Modern Credit Card Introduced
First Organ Transplant
First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
Korean War Begins
Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb

Polio Vaccine

Apr 3, 1952

Car Seat Belts Introduced
The Great Smog of 1952
Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship
Polio Vaccine Created
Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25

Magazine

Dec 16, 1953

DNA Discovered
First Playboy Magazine
Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest
Joseph Stalin Dies
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage

Roger Bannister

May 6, 1954

Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman
First Atomic Submarine Launched
Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer
Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile
Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.

Disneyland

Jul 17, 1955

Disneyland Opens
Emmett Till Murdered
James Dean Dies in Car Accident
McDonald's Corporation Founded
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
Warsaw Pact Signed

TV Remote Control Invented

Jun 13, 1956

Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show
Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco
Hungarian Revolution
Khrushchev Denounces Stalin
Suez Crisis
T.V. Remote Control Invented
Velcro Introduced

Dr, Seuss

May 21, 1957

Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat
European Economic Community Established
Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age
Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit

Lego Bricks Introduced

Jan 8, 1958

Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize
Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward"
Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian
Hula Hoops Become Popular
LEGO Toy Bricks First Introduced
NASA Founded
Peace Symbol Created

HIV Discovered

Apr 16, 1959

The first known case of HIV in a human occurs in a person who died in the Congo, later confirmed as having HIV infection from his preserved blood samples.[2][3] The authors of the study did not sequence a full virus from his samples, writing that "attempts to amplify HIV-1 fragments of >300 base pairs (bp) were unsuccessful ... However, after numerous attempts, four shorter sequences were obtained"; these represented small portions of two of the six genes of the complete HIV genome

Kitchen Debate

Jul 24, 1959

Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba
International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve
Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev
The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway
U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed

Lasers Invented

Mar 22, 1960

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
First Televised Presidential Debates
Lasers Invented
Lunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Greenboro, NC
Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile
Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA
Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth

Freedom Riders

May 17, 1961

Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall Built
Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses
JFK Gives "Man on the Moon" Speech
Peace Corps Founded
Soviets Launch First Man in Space
Stalin's Body Removed From Lenin's Mausoleum
The Antarctic Treaty Goes Into Force
Tsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded

Marilyn Found Dead

Aug 5, 1962

Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
Cuban Missile Crisis
Famous Escape From Alcatraz
First James Bond Movie
First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
First Wal-Mart Opens
James Meredith Admitted Into the Segregated University of Mississippi
Johnny Carson Takes Over the Tonight Show
Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring

"I Have a Dream"

Aug 28, 1963

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique
Buddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire in Protest
First Dr. Who Episode Airs
First Woman in Space
Great Train Robbery in England
"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
JFK Assassinated
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
Medgar Evers Is Murdered

Civil Rights Act

Jul 2, 1964

Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
Italy Asks for Help to Stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens
Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued

Troops in Vietnam

Aug 2, 1965

British Sea Gem Oil Rig Collapses
Los Angeles Riots
Malcolm X Assassinated
Miniskirt First Appears
Nicolae Ceausescu Comes to Power in Romania
New York City Great Blackout
The Rolling Stones’ Mega Hit Song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam

Black Panther Party

May 21, 1966

Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
Black Panther Party Established
First Kwanzaa Celebrated
Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
Two Multi-Ton Chunks of the Mundrabilla Meteorite Found

First SuperBowl

May 21, 1967

Australian Prime Minister Disappears
Che Guevara Killed
First Heart Transplant
First Super Bowl
Six-Day War in the Middle East
Stalin's Daughter Defects
Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Kennedy Assasinated

Nov 20, 1968

Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
My Lai Massacre
Nerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 Sheep
Prague Spring
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
Spy Ship USS Pueblo Captured
Tet Offensive
Zodiac Killer Strikes

Neil Walks On The Moon

Aug 25, 1969

ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
Manson Family Murders
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
Sesame Street First Airs
Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO

Floppy Disk Introduced

Feb 18, 1970

Aswan High Dam Completed
Beatles Break Up
Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
Kent State Shootings

VCRs Introduced

May 21, 1971

London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency
VCRs Introduced

Terrorist Attack in Olympics

Jun 25, 1972

M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers
Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
Pocket Calculators Introduced
Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
Watergate Scandal Begins

Sears Tower Built

Aug 12, 1973

Roe vs Wade Legalizes Abortion in the U.S.
Paul Getty Kidnapped
Sears Tower Built
U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
U.S. Vice President Resigns

President Nixon Resigns

Aug 9, 1974

Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed
Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
Terracotta Army Discovered in China
U.S. President Nixon Resigns

Civil War in Lebannon

Apr 13, 1975

Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
Cambodian Genocide Begins
Civil War in Lebanon
Microsoft Founded
Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia

Tangshan Earthquake

Jul 28, 1976

First Ebola Virus Outbreaks Strike Sudan and Zaire
Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens
North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000

Elvis Found Dead

Jan 8, 1977

Elvis Found Dead
Miniseries Roots Airs
South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death
Star Wars Movie Released

Jonestown Massacre

Nov 18, 1978

First Test-Tube Baby Born
John Paul II Becomes Pope
Jonestown Massacre

Nuclear Accident

May 12, 1979

Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran
Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
Mother Teresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
Sony Introduces the Walkman

John Lennon Dead

Dec 8, 1980

Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
John Lennon Assassinated
Mount St. Helens Erupts
Pac-Man Video Game Released
Rubik's Cube Becomes Popular
Ted Turner Establishes CNN

First Woman in Supreme Court

Feb 1, 1981

Assassination Attempt on the Pope
Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan
First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
Millions Watch Royal Wedding on T.V.
New Plague Identified as AIDS
Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM

Michael Jackson Thriller Release

Nov 30, 1982

E.T. Movie Released
Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina
King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised After 437 Years
Michael Jackson Releases Thriller
Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples at Madison Square Garden
Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington, DC

U.S. Embassy Bombing Beirut

Apr 18, 1983

Cabbage Patch Kids Are Popular
Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars
Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space
Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner
U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed

U.SPerforms Nucear Test

Feb 21, 1984

Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home
PG-13 Movie Rating Created
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Coke Introduced

May 22, 1985

Famine in Ethiopia
Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered
Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika
New Coke Hits the Market
Wreck of the Titanic Found

U.S. Bombs Libya

Jul 21, 1986

Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Ferdinand Marcos Flees the Philippines U.S. Bombs Libya
U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station

DNA First Used to Convict Criminals

Oct 17, 1987

DNA First Used to Convict Criminals
Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced to Life in Prison
New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday"
West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in Russia's Red Square
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US Shoots Down Iranian Airliner

Aug 28, 1988

Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie
U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner

Oil Spil

Mar 24, 1989

January 6, 1989 - Economic reports on the previous year from the Labor Department indicate a growth rate of 3.8%, the largest in four years and an unemployment rate of 5.3%, a low of fourteen years. March 24, 1989 - The Exxon Valdez crashes into Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, causing the largest oil spill in American history, eleven million gallons, which extended forty-five miles.

Communist Party

Feb 7, 1990

February 7, 1990 - The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party gives up its monopoly of power, continuing the trend, since the beginning of the Berlin Wall coming down, that the Cold War was about to end. The ending of the Cold War was completed, in many ways, by the strong policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan toward the Soviet block. Six days later, a plan to reunite Germany was announced.