Mr. Weedman's Project Mk

By JohnathanWoosley

  • ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert

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  • 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)

  • Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)

  • 1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)

  • Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400

  • Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated

  • US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands

  • 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva

  • US president Harry Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan

  • - May 7th - Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death

  • CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece

  • 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in

  • Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing

  • Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes

  • Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation

  • Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700

  • Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb

  • Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III

  • 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson

  • Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar

  • 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands

  • US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

  • Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card

  • Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing

  • 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing

  • 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson

  • 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)

  • - Nov 13th - False fingernails 1st sold

  • Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.

  • 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight

  • US Senate rejects China PR membership to UN

  • The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.

  • TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons

  • 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)

  • "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing

  • German FR joins NATO

  • - Mar 5th - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show

  • Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform

  • First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)

  • Supreme Court of Balt bans segregation in public recreational areas

  • Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"

  • German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed

  • 650,000 US steel workers go on strike

  • Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses

  • 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline

  • US give Poland credit of $95 million

  • Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated

  • 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)

  • 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days

  • 1st march against nuclear weopons (Aldermaston England)

  • US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

  • Israeli navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine

  • $3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC

  • NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury

  • 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)

  • 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica

  • Protest strike in Poznan Poland

  • 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes

  • 1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)

  • Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms

  • USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus

  • China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor

  • - Aug 6th - 1st case of motion sickness in space reported

  • Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism

  • United States Navy SEALs established.

  • US national debt above $300,000,000,000

  • Cuban missile crisis ends after JFK and Khrushchev make a public and secret agreement

  • Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Birmingham police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators

  • Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant

  • 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC

  • Touch-tone telephone introduced