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Harry Truman wins presidential election after upsetting poll takers. -
Mao Zedong formally declares the People's Republic of China -
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. -
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. -
Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. They were executed in 1953. -
McCarthy begins investigating Communists in the U.S. Army. -
It was fought between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. -
Queen Elizabeth II is the sixth Queen to have been crowned in Westminster Abbey in her own right. -
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. -
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 was more important because it was the first rock'n'roll record heard by millions of people worldwide. -
Invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
Explorer 1 (14 kg), America's first satellite, discovers the Van Allen radiation belts. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
the Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958 -
a U-2 flight piloted by Francis Gary Powers disappeared while on a flight over Russia. -
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Southern segregationists rioted and fought state and federal forces on the campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford -
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. -
Connecticut, went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1965 that birth control is legal for married women. T -
Woodstock 69 was known to have had over 500,000 people in attendance and that also translates to having garbage pile up. -
Ruhollah Khomeini, known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary and politician. -
Crack cocaine, also known simply as crack or rock, is a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked. -
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. -
People's Liberation Army at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.