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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history. -
Joseph McCarthy
Asserted in a speech that he had a list of members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring who were employed in the State Department but never able to prove his sensational charge -
Ezzard Charles
Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title -
Vincent Massey
The first Canadian-born individual to serve as Canada's governor general, the 18th Governor General of Canada since Canadian Confederation. -
Francis Crick
Co-discoverer of DNA molecule structure, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine -
Betsy Rawls
LPGA Tour professional golfer who won eight major championship and 55 LPGA Tour career events. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. -
civil rights movement
The national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights. -
cold war
the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. -
Johnny Cash
During Johnny Cash's long and influential music career he was mainly known as a country music artist but his work also encompassed other styles including gospel, rockabilly and blues -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Whether you were alive at the time or not, you probably know that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President, only to be fatally gunned down by Jack Ruby two days later. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters they all was happy -
Evel Knievel
fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain it was a big problem -
Walter Cronkite
ends hosting weekly documentary because this caused alot of problems -
Joe Frazier
Emerged as the top contender in the late 1960s,defeating multiple opponents en route to becoming Undisputed Heavyweight Champion in 1970, and followed that up by defeating Muhammad Ali -
Harriet Tubman
Born into slavery in Maryland, Tubman escaped north in 1849 returning to rescue other slaves over a period of 8 years. During this time she used the secret Underground Railroad to free over 300 slaves and successfully evade capture -
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession this was a shocker -
John McEnroe
becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open for cheating -
hiv/aids
1981, 5 young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at 3 different which is aids -
Bryan Trottier
Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot that had caused a big set back -
OJ Simpson
Jan 12th Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA they claimed he killeds his wife -
Mike Schmidt
Jan 8th Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame he was great -
super bowl
Jan 29th Super Bowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami, MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB -
Tiger Woods
Woods was a golf child prodigy before turning pro in 1996. He won his 1st major in 1997 and became the No.1 ranked player shortly after -
Bill Parcells
becomes head coach of NY Jets.Known as "The Big Tuna", he won two Super Bowl rings as head coach of the New York Giants. -
Jimmy Johnson
announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins he coached the Dallas Cowboys from 1989 to 1993 and the Miami Dolphins from 1996 to 1999. -
Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge because they started with him first -
John Elway
John Elway announces his retirement from the NFL he felt he played his time after engineer a 98-yard, game-tying touchdown drive, which would become known as "The Drive". -
Dan Marino
wins his last career NFL game vs Seattle the score was 20-17 -
Ray Lewis
A fight between Ray Lewis and his companions and another group of people results in the stabbing deaths of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar, resulting of Lewis 11 days on murder and aggravated-assault charges
