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Truman orders development of the Hydrogen Bomb.
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North Korean Communists invade South Korea.
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Mcarthy starts Mcarthyism.
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Sold Atomic Secrets to the Russians.
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Signed in San Francisco by 49 Nations.
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Elizabeth ll becomes queen.
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Gen Dwight D Eisenhower inaugurated for President.
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Joseph Stalin Dies.
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James Watson and Francis Crick publish their model of DNA.
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Korea signs its Armistice.
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Moscow announces their Hydrogen Bomb.
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Launched by Nautlius .
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Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat.
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Russians launch first Satellite into space
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Egypst and Syria merged.
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In order to prevent further escape, and to keep the professional classes trapped, they built a wall
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Yuri A. Gagarin spends one hour and forty-eight minutes on his orbital flight.
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Alan B. Shepard flight lasted 15 minutes.
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John Glenn is the first American to orbit the earth.
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Soviet Union building nuclear installations on Cuba.
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U.S. plane flew 3,600 miles is in ten hours.
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Valentina V. Tereshkova of the Soviet Union enters space.
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Martin Luther King told his famous speech.
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American president shot and killed.
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Soviet Aleksei A. Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space for about 10 minutes.
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Edward White becomes the first American astronaut to walk in space and for about 20 minutes.
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The start of the ongoing Super Bowl games.
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South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard conducted the first heart transplant on 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky.
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U.S. astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William A. Anders, becomes the first manned space vessel to orbit the moon.
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America landed and walked on the moon.
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Millions of Americans participated in Anti-Pollution Demonstrations.
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4 Students killed and 9 wounded by a National Guardsman during a Vietnam Protest.
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South Vietnamese soldiers is begun with the aid of United States air and artillery lasting for 44 days.
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Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
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President Nixon traveld to Moscow for week of summit discussions.