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The Kwai Bridge
Allied forces bombed the bridge in 1944. • Three sections of the bridge was destroyed, it has been repaired but the original parts are held in the War Museum . -
First Colored Television
Colored TV came out February 5, 1951
The FCC didn’t approve the first colored standard until a couple of years later. -
Queen Elizabeth took crown
She took crown after the death of her father King George XI. -
The Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series
The Brooklyn dodgers won the world series against the new York Yankees on October 4,1955. -
The King and I came out.
It was a musical composed by Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein. -
Charles Starkweather killing spree
Starkweather and his 14 year old girlfriend went on a killing spree in early 1957. They killed 10 people and both got captured outside of Douglas, Wyoming. Starkweather was executed on June 25, 1959. Caril was sentenced to 30-50 years in prison but only got 18 and resettled in Michigan. -
Castro took over cuba
Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban leader Batista and was sworn in as prime minister in 1959. Castro and a group of friends used gurille warfare tactics to get rid of Batista. -
The first hula hoop
Aruther Melin applied for a patent for his version of the hula hoop on May 13, 1959. The hula hoop came from ancient Greece then went to Great Britain. -
JFK blown away :(
On November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas president john f Kennedy was assassinated.
• Kennedy was in Dallas to raise funds for his presidential reelection campaign. Kennedy and wife, Jacqueline was in the back seat of an open top limousine with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife. The car turned the corner and shots were fired, police looked around and found a riffle with prints of Lee Harvey Oswald, police took him in for questioning and accused him guilty. Two days after the assasination. -
Dwight Eisenhower
- Dwight Eisenhower was born October 14, 1890 and died march 28, 1969 He was the 34th of the united states. He died march 28, 1969 due to heart failure.
