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Television
Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTelevision is becoming widespread (in black and white format) and becomes the most popular means of advertising -
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMarilyn Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve, and attempts suicide after the death of friend Johnny Hyde who asked to marry her several times, but she refused respectfully. Monroe would later (1954) be married for a brief time to Joe DiMaggio -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley Official Web Site Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, beginning his pop career -
Disneyland
Disneyland Resort | Welcome to the MagicWalt Disney's first theme park.on july 7 1955 and is now a well know vacation spot. -
Mafia
American Mafia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMafia are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin -
Berlin wall
click here for more info The Berlin Wall, which forcibly separated West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany, was erected on August 13 to prevent citizens escaping to the West -
British Beatlemania
click here for more info The Beatles, a British rock group, gain Ringo Starr as drummer and Brian Epstein as manager, and join the EMI's Parlophone label. They soon become the world's most famous rock band , with the word "Beatlemania" adopted by the press for their fans' unprecedented enthusiasm. It also began the British Invasion in the United States. -
Woodstock
click here for more infoFamous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement -
punk rock
[click here for more info ](www.woodstock.com/)The Ramones form, with the Sex Pistols following in 1975, bringing in the punk era. -
Heavy metal suicide
Heavy metal suicideHeavy metal suicide: In the 1980s Ozzy Osbourne and the bands Judas Priest and Metallica were brought to court by parents who accused the musicians of hiding subliminal pro-suicide messages in their music.