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Harry Truman
Harry Truman wins presidential election after upsetting poll takers. -
Red China
Mao Zedong formally declares the People's Republic of China -
Panmunjom
It was the location of the truce conference that was held for two years (1951–53) between representatives of the United Nations forces and the opposing North Korean and Chinese armies during the war. -
Roy Campanella
First black to win a lot of MVP awards,At the plate, Campanella quickly established himself as one of the best hitting catchers in baseball. -
Rosenbergs
Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. They were executed in 1953. -
Joe McCarthy,
McCarthy begins investigating Communists in the U.S. Army. -
Dien Bien Phu Falls
It was fought between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. -
England's got a new queen
Queen Elizabeth II is the sixth Queen to have been crowned in Westminster Abbey in her own right. -
Disneyland
Disneyland, Walt Disney's metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens on July 17, 1955. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. -
Alabama
Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, is arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a boarding white passenger as required by Montgomery city ordinance. -
Rock Around the Clock
Rock Around the Clock was more important because it was the first rock'n'roll record heard by millions of people worldwide. -
Trouble in the Suez 1
Invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
Sputnik
Explorer 1 (14 kg), America's first satellite, discovers the Van Allen radiation belts. -
Little Rock
School closing was the result of an ongoing legal battle over school desegregation. On Feb. 20, 1958, the Little Rock School Board petitioned U.S. District Court Judge Harry J. Lemley for a two-and-half-year delay in its desegregation plan. -
California Baseball
62 years ago this past Saturday, major league baseball changed forever. It was on that date that the Los Angeles Dodgers made their debut in their new home city, 2,796 miles from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, where they had been playing since 1884. -
Space Monkey
Gordo, who was also known as Old Reliable, was sent into space in 1958. A squirrel monkey, he was chosen because of the similarity of the species to the human body. -
Hula Hoops
the Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958 -
U2
a U-2 flight piloted by Francis Gary Powers disappeared while on a flight over Russia. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Ole Miss
Southern segregationists rioted and fought state and federal forces on the campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which he outlined the philosophy of black nationalism as promoted by the Nation of Islam and declared racial separatism as the best approach to the problems facing black America. -
Birth Control
Connecticut, went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1965 that birth control is legal for married women. T -
Woodstock
Woodstock 69 was known to have had over 500,000 people in attendance and that also translates to having garbage pile up. -
Ayatollah's in Iran
Ruhollah Khomeini, known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary and politician. -
Crack
Crack cocaine, also known simply as crack or rock, is a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked. -
Sally Ride
NASA Astronaut Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space, when she launched with her four crewmates aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7. -
China's under martial law
People's Liberation Army at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.