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Harry Truman won the presidential election of 1948, which resulted in an upset of the poll predictions in 1948. -
Lead Mao Zedong declared the fall of mainland China to Communism(Peoples Republic of China). -
Panmunjom was the location of the truce conferred, that being held from 1951-1953 -
American Citizen Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were spies of the Soviet Union who got discovered and convicted of espionage in 1951 where it led to their execution in 1953. -
Queen Elizabeth II succeeded the throne on February 8th, 1952. -
Led the anti-communist crusade that resulted in the investigation of communists in the American government. -
Roy Campanella won his second MVP in 1953. -
Bill Haley recorded the song Rock Around The Clock on April 12, 1954, as a social and cultural movement of rock and roll it was then later released in 1955. -
French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam that later ended up falling after a four-month siege led by Ho Chi Minh a Vietnamese nationalist. -
Walt Disney's $17 million theme park opens up. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott occurred, this event was a civil rights protest on segregated seating. -
Suez Crises, this situation began on October 29, 1956, when President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal. -
The Golden Bears baseball team represented the University of California in the 1957 NCAA University Division Baseball season. -
Nine black students were enrolled in what was an all-white school. Federal troops escorted the little rock nine into their first day of school at the Central High school, Arkansas. -
Arthur Melin applied for a patent on his own version of the hula hoop on May 13th, 1959. -
In 1959 the US succeeded in sending monkeys into space and back home alive. -
The soviet union shot down an American U-2 spy plane. -
The CIA launched the bay of pigs invasion to push Fidel Castro(Cuban leader) from power. This was a failed attack launched during Kennedy's presidency. -
Also known as the Battle of Oxford was a riot held on the campus of the University of Missisippi to prevent the enrollment of James Meredith who was the first African American student to attend the university. -
Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California on black nationalism, declaring that racial separatism is the best approach to facing the problems of black americans. -
Connecticut went to the supreme court, this ruled that birth control is legal for married woman. -
The soviets orbited the world's first artificial satellite on Friday, October 4th, 1957. -
A musical festival held in August 1969. -
After 14 years of political exile Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran. -
China stated that any political adversary would be treated as if it was an enemy and would even use lethal force. -
Sally became the first American female astronaut launched into space in 1983. -
The anti-drug abuse act gave sentences of 5 years with no parole for possession of cocaine(crack).