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first organ transplant (kidney)
the transplant took place at a company called maty hospitial. the women name was ruth tucker. she was 49 years old and suffered from polycystic kidneys. -
rock and roll begin
genere that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s[Rock and roll" can refer either to the first wave of music that originated in the US in the 1950s prior to its development into rock music. -
King George vI died
In 1951, following years of heavy smoking, King George was diagnosed with lung cancer and arteriosclerosis. On September 23, 1951, his left lung was removed. On the morning of February 6, 1952, at the age of 56, George VI was discovered dead in bed. It was later determined that he had died of a coronary thrombosis. -
Soviet H bomb
The Soviet Union also pursued the development of a hydrogen bomb. On August 12, 1953, the Soviet Union tested its first fusion-based device on a tower in central Siberia. The bomb had a yield of 400 kilotons. -
report that says cigarettes caused cancer
The conclusion of the United States Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health in 1964 that excessive cigarette smoking causes lung cancer is cited as the major turning point for public health action against cigarettes. But the surgeon general and US Public Health Service (PHS) scientists had concluded as early as 1957 that smoking was a cause of lung cancer, indeed, "the principal etiologic factor in the increased incidence of lung cancer." -
Warsaw pact signed
The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'.4 days ago -
winston churchill reelected
Was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. -
vietnam war begins
Was a cold war that occured in vietnam laos. ended april 30 1995. it was supported by the soviet union. -
Rosa parks arrested
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rosa parks arrested
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city's buses. -
alaska became part of the U.S.A.
Alaska became a U.S. territory in 1867 when it was purchased by William Seward, the Secretary of State, at 4am on March 30 after an all-night discussion with Russia, a country that was then in financial difficulty. -
Antartic treaty
The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by the twelve countries whose scientists had been active in and around Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58. It entered into force in 1961 and has since been acceded to by many other nations.