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Truman became president when Franklin D. Roosevelt died. He is most known for putting an end to World War II in the Pacific by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. -
Red China may refer to: Communist-controlled China (1927–49), territories held during the Chinese Civil War. People's Republic of China. China during the Cultural Revolution. -
He was convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York -
"Rock Around the Clock" was heard under the film's opening credits. Director Richard Brooks chose the song because he felt it captured the wild, loud energy of young people. -
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey. Her Majesty was the thirty-ninth Sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey -
A village just north of the de facto border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that paused the Korean War was signed. -
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. -
the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. -
The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system -
The Suez Crisis, also called the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit -
Major league baseball changed forever. It was on that date that the Los Angeles Dodgers made their debut in their new home city. -
Arthur Melin applied for a patent for his version of the hula hoop. He received U.S. Patent Number 3,079,728 on March 5, 1963, for a Hoop Toy. -
In 1959, the United States finally succeeded in sending monkeys into space and bringing them home alive. -
An American U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. -
Connecticut, went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1965 that birth control is legal for married women -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba -
Battle of Oxford, was an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation beginning the night of September 30, 1962. -
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam. -
An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000. -
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. -
A new Iranian constitution was approved, naming Khomeini as Iran's political and religious leader for life -
The "crack epidemic" in the United States was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. -
The Chinese People's Liberation Army played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, suppressing the demonstrations by force and upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. -
Campanella quickly established himself as one of the best hitting catchers in baseball.