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Harry Truman
President Truman issued an executive order to desegregate the armed forces. -
Red China
Chinese Communist Mao Zedong declared the creation of People's Republic of China. -
Joe McCarthy
McCarthy attacks Cedric Parker at the Madison Capital Times for his left wing associations. -
Panmunjom
The armistic agreement was signed -
Alabama
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which some African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
England's Got a New Queen
Queen Elizabeth became Queen at the age of 27 in 1952 -
Rosenbergs
Supreme Court announces that it ruled against granting certiorari on the Rosenberg's appeal -
Campanella
Roy Campanella won his first MVP while hitting in 1951, but won a second MVP in 1953 with 142 runs as a catcher. -
Dien Bien Phu Falls
A Climatic confrontation of the first Indochina War that took place between March 13th and May 7th in 1954 -
Rock Around The Clock
Bill Haley and His Comets recorded "Rock Around the Clock" and it was the Declaration of Rock and Roll which became a social and cultural revolution. -
Disneyland
The Grand Opening of Disneyland, cost $17 million dollars and sat on 160 acres of former orange groves in California. -
Trouble in Suez
After Egyptian president Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt. -
Little Rock
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Sputnik
The first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the USSR. -
California Baseball
On April 18, 1958, 62 years ago this past Saturday, major league baseball changed forever. It was on that date that the Los Angeles Dodgers made their debut in their new home city, 2,796 miles from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, where they had been playing since 1884 -
Hula Hoops
There was a 100th million sale of Hula Hoops in 1959 which changed our culture forever. -
Space Monkey
The United States recorded a milestone in 1959, finally recovering two primates alive after a spaceflight. A rhesus monkey named Able and a squirrel monkey named Baker reached an altitude of 300 miles aboard a Jupiter rocket and were retrieved unharmed. -
U-2
U-2 Incident, confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, and France. -
Bay Pigs of Invasion
A failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X to reassess his relationship with the Nation of Islam, and particularly its leader, Elijah Muhammad. -
Ole Miss
James Meredith became one of the heroic figures in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Birth Control
Estelle Griswold and Lee Buxton take their Connecticut case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.