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for the first time the 1950 census counts a population in the united states over 150 million people . the 14 % increased since the last census now showed a count of 150,697,367
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The Korean War beings its three year conflict with troops of North Korea , backed with soviet weaponry .
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It strengthen laws against espionage allowed investigation and deportation of immigrants who were suspected subversive activities or of promoting communism or fascism
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Preliminary report from the senator Estes Kefauver investigation that had begun on may 11th ,1950 into organizated crime is issued started that gambling take was in excess of $20 billion per year
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Julius and Ethel were found guilty of conspiracy of wartime espionage and sentenced to death . they were executed on June 1953 Morton Sobel was also convicted of the crime and sentenced 30 years in prison
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General D Eisenhower gains an easy victory over democratic challenger Adlai E Stevenson . 442 to 89
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D Eisenhower travels to Korea to try and end the conflict
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the cold war continues Eisenhower approves a top secret document stating that the U.S. nuclear arsenal must be expanding to combat the communist threat around the world
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December 39th 1953 the first colored television have gone on sale
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Ray Kroc founds the idea the mcdonalds corporation , agreeing to franchise the idea of bick and Mac McDonald's first restaurant in the 1940 and had 8 by 1954
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Emmett Till was kidnapped from the home of his uncle and 3 days later his body was found floating in the tallahatchie river , he had several beating wounds and gunshot to his head and he was only fourteen years old
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Rosa Parks got arrested because she refused to give up her seat on the bus to white person
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Jackson Pollock's paintings "Scent and Search " are his only last two painting that will be famous because a year after he painted them he died in a car crash
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Elvis Presley made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956 even though Sullivan disliked Elvis he then allowed Elvis to be on his show after he heard that the "Steve Allen show" was number one
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Bolivia has been suffering from an inflation
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The Federal Bureau of investigation arrests labor leader jimmy hoffa under a bribery charge
