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Communist-controlled China Territorries held during Chinese Civil War.
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Successfully ran for the U.S. Senate defeating Robert M. La Follette Jr. -
Authorized Berlin airlift. -
Location of the truce conference that was held for 2 years
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Queen Elizabeth II became queen in 1952, and was crowned in 1953. -
Roy Campanella would win the MVP award as he led the NL in RBI (142) and 1955 when he led the Dodgers to the franchise’s first World Series victory over the Yankees. -
The first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime in 1952. They were later executed in 1953. -
Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock.” -
The French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. -
Disneyland, Walt Disney's metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens! -
Montgomery Bus Boycott. Civil rights protest during where African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. Took place until 1956. -
Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal, a valuable waterway that controlled two-thirds of the oil used by Europe. -
Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. -
Sputnik successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit. -
First season of play in California for the Los Angeles Dodgers (formerly of Brooklyn) and the San Francisco Giants (formerly of New York City). -
the United States finally succeeded in sending monkeys into space and bringing them home alive. -
Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in May 1960 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, the United Kingdom, and France. -
Failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation. -
Malcolm flies to Phoenix with Elijah Muhammad's son Wallace to confront the Nation of Islam's leader in April. -
The Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958. -
Woodstock was a music festival Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. -
The Supreme Court in Eisenstadt v. Baird legalizes birth control for unmarried people. -
In December, a new Iranian constitution was approved, naming Khomeini as Iran's political and religious leader for life. -
Crack epidemic, the significant increase in the use of crack cocaine, or crack, in the United States during the early 1980s. Crack cocaine was popularized because of its affordability, its immediate euphoric effect, and its high profitability. -
First American woman in space. -
In the year of 1989, China decreed that any political adversary would be treated as an enemy, and that even lethal force may be used on them.