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Truman ordered the development of the Hydrogen Bomb.
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Earthquake and Floods in Assam, India killed 574 people and left 5,000,000 others homeless.
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Two Puerto Rican nationalists stayed an attempted assassination on U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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Japanese Peace treaty signed in San Francisco by 49 nations.
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George VI dies and his daughter becomes Elizabeth II.
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Julius And Ethel Rosenberg executed in sing sing prison.
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Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of the bus.
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Nikita Khrushchev, first Secretary of USSR Communist party, denounces stalin's excesses.
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Egypt takes comtrol of Suez Canal
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Soviet Troops enter and reclaim Bubapest.
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Dr. Suess published his book The Cat in The Hat.
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The soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artifical satellite to orbit earth.
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Army's Jupiter- C rocket fires first U.S. Satellite, Explore 1 into orbit.
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A chartered plane tranporting three Amercian Rock- n- Roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. " The Big Bagger" Richerdson goes doen in foggy conaition near Clear Lake, Iowa killing all four occupants onboard, includibg pilot Roger Peterson.
