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Foundation of the NBA, and the first game between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers.
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The Executive Order of 1948 was to abolish discrimination on the basis of color, race, religion, or national origin.
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The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government and their mass dismissal from government service. It contributed to and paralleled the anti-communist campaign known as McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare
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Segregation in US schools deemed unconstitutional in the Brown vs. Board Education decision
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Mrs.Rosa Parks, an African American woman who refused to give up her seat to a white folk during a time of segregation helped initiate a civil rights movement with her action.
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Hawaii becomes the 50th state in the United States of America.
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A period of feminist activity, quickly spread across the Western world, aimed to increase equality for women by gaining more than just enfranchisement.
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Oral contraceptives are now approved by the FDA after the first prescription of them was in 1957. Canada approves the sale of the birth control pill.
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Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for inciting worker's strikes and leaving the country without permission.
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Seminal event for the hippie culture, state of California mad LSD illegal directly led to the massive and tranformative Human-Be-In event in San Francisco
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Series of spontatneous, violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT community against a police raid that began early in the morning of June 28th, at the Stonewall Inn
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Neil Armstrong walks on the moon and the event is televised.
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The first building in the nation wide coffee chain is built and placed in Seattle, Washington.
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Supreme Court decision which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United states protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. (Argued in 1971, decided in 1973)
