history

By MauricioLopez_16

  • Macy's first thanksgiving

    The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held on November 27th, 1924.

  • tv show

    "I Love Lucy" comes on television on the CBS network.

  • Queen Elizabeth the second

    Elizabeth II becomes the Queen of England after her father, George VI, dies.

  • Vaccine for polio

    Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine.

  • U.S. Supreme Court

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules that racial segregation is unconstitutional in public schools in their unanimous decision of Brown v. Board of Education.

  • Civil Rights Movement

    Rosa Parks is arrested in Alabama after she refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Vaccine

    Albert Sabin creates the oral polio vaccine to replace the Salk vaccine.

  • Space Exploration

    The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. They also launched Sputnik 2 later in the year, a satellite that carried the first animal into space.

  • Protesters

    Nine African-American student enroll at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas and are met with resistance by protesters and the state's governor. Federal troops end up escorting the students into the school at the command of President Eisenhower.

  • revolution

    The Cuban revolution ends and Fidel Castro comes to power, creating the first Communist nation in the West.

  • Presidential election

    Democrat John F. Kennedy wins the U.S. Presidential Election after defeating Republican Richard Nixon.

  • First Person to go to Space

    Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space.

  • Assassination's

    United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

  • Civil Rights Act

    United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

  • Voting Rights act

    The Voting Rights Act was announced and was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.

  • Moon Landing

    The Soviet Union's Luna 9 unmanned spacecraft lands on the Moon.

  • Supreme Court

    Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the Supreme Court and becomes the first African American.

  • Assassination

    Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in April by James Earl Ray.

  • Moon and Space

    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to arrive on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission.

  • The Internet

    AARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, relays its first communications between UCLA and Stanford.