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The 50's

1950-1959

The most important moments that happened in the 1950's

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• Korean War begins when North Korea invaded South Korea in June;
• Diner's Club issues the first credit cards;
• Denmark - The Tollund Man, a mummified body from the 4th Century, is found;
• Two Long Island commuter trains collide in the Richmond Hills section of Queens killing 79 people;
• Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction;
• Cinderella;
• Legos.

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• TV in colors
• I Love Lucy

1952

• Death of King George VI and ascention of Queen Elizabeth
• The United States successfully tested its first thermonuclear weapon - Hydrogen bomb

• Polio vaccine by Jonas Salk

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• The Korean War ends after three years and one month;
• 25th annual Oscar happened;

• The first James Bond novel, "Casino Royale," is published by British author Ian Fleming;
• Queen Elizabeth II was crowned queen of England on June 2nd in the UK;
• British physicist Francis Crick and American biologist James Watson discovered the double-helix structure of human DNA in February;
• Jonas Salk gives himself and his family the polio vaccine.

1954

• Oprah
• A landmark case - Brown v. Board of Education
• Marilyn Monroe's scene from "The Seven Year Itch" movie

1955

• Civil rights movement
• Rosa Parks
• 1'st McDonnald's

1956

• Elvis Presley debut
• First mall in the United States
• Wizard of Oz on your television

1957

• Sputnik 1 - the start of the Space Race
• West Side Story debut on Broadway
• Civil rights act of 1957
• Little Rock Nine

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1958

• Music in the 50's
• NASA's creation

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1959

• US President Eisenhower signs the Hawaii Admission Act into law and Hawaii becomes the 50th state in the United States of America;
• NASA launches the Pioneer 4 spacecraft, being the first American spacecraft to exit the orbit of Earth;
• The United States Navy launches the Vanguard 2 satellite in February;
• The Luna 2 spacecraft crashes into the Moon;
• NASA introduces America's first astronauts to the world including John H. Glenn Jr, and Alan Shepard Jr;
• First Pictures Of Earth From Space were taken By Explorer 6;
• Barbie.