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- Began essentially at the close of WWII.
- Cuban Misile Crisis in October of 1962
- "Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!" Referring to the Berlin wall It marked the near end of the Cold War in November 1989
- Officially considered over in 1991
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Declared a truce and Korea divided.
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- He serves until 1955 "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense"
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1952 picks up in the middle General Francisco Franco's rule. He was the dictator, essentially, from October 1, 1939 until 1975.
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Presidents:
1947 Vincent Auriol
1954 René Coty From
1959 Charles de Gaulle
1969 Georges Pompidou
1974 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
1981 François Mitterrand
1995 Jacques Chirac
2007 Nicolas Sarkozy
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20-Jan-1952 Edgar Faure
8-Mar-1952 Antoine Pinay
8-Jan-1953 René Mayer
27-Jun-1953 Joseph Laniel
18-Jun-1954 Pierre Mendès France
17-Feb-1955 Christian Pineau
23-Feb-1955 Edgar Faure
31-Jan-1956 Guy Mollet
12-Jun-1957 Maurice Bourgès Maunoury
6-Nov-1957 Félix Gaillard
13-May-1958 Pierre Pflimlin
1-Jun-1958 Charles de Gaulle
8-Jan-1959 Michel Debré
14-Apr-1962 Georges Pompidou
10-Jul-1968 Maurice Couve de Murville
20-Jun-1969 Jacques Chaban Delmas
6-Jul-1972 Pierre Messmer -
- She is still reigning today
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- He served 2 terms, ending in 1960.
- Dwight Eisenhower was the first nominee to travel by airplane while campaigning.
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Using a kitchen blender, Bette Nesmith invented "Mistake Out," the first Liquid Paper for whiting out mistakes on a typewriter.
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Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
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Mickey Mantle hits a 565 foot (172 m) home run at Griffith Stadium in Washington D.C. Mantle's home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by many historians.
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The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michigan.
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Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant (the company's 9th since it was founded in 1940), but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.
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major Preserver of Texas history
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He serves until 1957.
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Wealthy business man and geologist
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Disneyland opens to the public in Anaheim, California
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Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people, and causing over $1.0 billion in damage
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We were defending South Vietnam, but we lost largely due to a lack of political will. 58,156 deaths
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger, which in turn kick starts the civil rights movement.
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Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with Heartbreak Hotel.
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The Flag of the United States Army is formally dedicated.[2]
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act, creating the Interstate Highway System
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- Elected as Senator in 1956 and agian in 1958.
- And then for the House of Representatives in 1960. He was the first Hispanic representative from Texas
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1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
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- Upon resignation of Anthony Eden because of doctor's orders. he later won the election in 1959
- He serves until 1963
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- A mob and the Arkansas Natinoal Guard blocked them from entering the school.
- After court battles, Thurgood Marshall as one of the lawyers, the kids finally entered with police escort on September 23
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Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit and burns up.
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The bodies of unidentified United States soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
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The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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A book by Eleanor Roosevelt is published sometime in 1958
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- 49th State to enter the union.
- Bought from Russia
- "The Last Frontier"
- "Land of the Midnight Sun"
- Alaska means "the mainland" from an Aleut (Eskimo language) word
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The Barbie doll debuts
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- 50th state to join the union
- "Aloha State"
- Name either means "small hoomeland" or was derived from traditional discoverer.
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- Four Students sat down, asked for service, and were refused, but they politely stayed seated.
- Helped ignite a passion against racial inequality in the youth.
- Four Students sat down, asked for service, and were refused, but they politely stayed seated.
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The Dalai Lama appeals to the United Nations to restore the independence of Tibet.
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- Grants the right to vote to the citizens of the District of Columbia.
- Ratified March 1961
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- John F. Kennedy's father gave him $1,000,000 when he turned twenty-one. (Each of his nine brothers and sisters got a million dollars too!)
- John Kennedy served in WWII. He was on PT 109 which was sunk by the Japanese. He risked his life to save his crew.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the youngest man elected (Teddy Roosevelt was younger but he was not elected), the first Roman Catholic to be elected president, the first to win a Purple Heart, the 4th president to be assassinated,
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Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to attend an all-white school in the south at age 6.
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The twist dance craze takes off in the United States, inspired by the Chubby Checker song "The Twist."
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The Beatles make their British debut at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.
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- John Goodwin Tower becomes the first Republican United States Senator from Texas since reconstruction (He serves until 1985)
- He dies April 5, 1991
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The Berlin Wall is built from August 15-17
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First took position as Speaker of the house in 1940 and held it (or the Minority leader) for 17 years, which is the longest tenure in U.S. History.
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The award winning movie came out in 1962 which depicted Hellen Keller, a blind, deaf, mute girl, and her journey to language through her teacher Anne Sullivan. It was later remade in 2000
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Marilyn Monroe dies from an overdose of sleeping pills, at the age of 36.
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- She died of bone marrow tuberculosis.
- Her final book, Tomorrow is Now, was published in 1963 after her death.
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Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla begin the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Through it, there were many boycotts.
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Invented by Phillips Company of the Netherlands.
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The theater version of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is released on Christmas Day. It stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.
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- Garrett Morgan, a great African American inventor (Gas mask and Traffic Signal) passed away.
- WEB Du Bois also dies on this day, who is a major component of African American literature.
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- Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous speech, "I have a dream that one day..."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. had such composure and such dignity that hearing him publicly speak was not only a privilege but an honor. King inspired people and made them believe that they could make a difference. King believed in nonviolent protest against segregation and racial discrimination. Many people, blacks and whites alike, joined his March on Washington in 1963.
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- He serves until 1964
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Lyndon B. Johnson, as Vice President, finished out JFK's first term.
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Mary Kay Ash begins the Mary Kay cosmetic company in the year 1963. She passed away in 2001
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Poll Tax Barred
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- Created Equal Opportunity Employment Commission and a Comunity Relations Service.
- It required desegregation of schools, parks, and the like.
- Restricted use of literacy test for voting
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He serves until 1970
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- He served 1 term.
- In his first attempt to become a Senator he lost in a very close race. On the day of the election he thought he had won and he and his team celebrated. The next day votes began to shift and he lost.
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- First woman as Texas Senate (1966)
- First African American congresswoman from deep south (1972-1978)
- Died January 17, 1996
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Presidential Disability and Succession
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legally ends discrimination
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Hellen Keller lived a full life as an author, political activist, and lecturere. She passed away in 1968.
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- He liked to eat cottage cheese with ketchup on it.
- Nixon was sworn in with his hand on two family Bibles.
- He was elected to 2 terms.
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Neil Armstrong is the first man to step on the moon in Apollo 11. His famous words were as he stepped on the moon, "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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Apollo 13, exploration to the moon, was almost disastrous had it not been for the brilliance of James A. Lovell changing the spaceship's course mid-flight.
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Serves until 1974
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- He was a recipient of 32 decorations from WWII
- He acted and produced movies throughout the 50s and 60s
- He was buried in Arlington Cemetery but asked for no gold leaf even though he was a Medal of Honor recipient.
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Voting age set to 18.
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The Watergate building was broken into, which turned into a huge political scandal over the next 2 years.
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Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the major leagues, dies in Stamford, Connecticut on October 24
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The first video game was released by the American company Atari.
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Abortions could not be restricted in the first trimester.
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Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first movile telephone call. He called the other company competeing to make a mobile device, Bell Labs.
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Serves until 1976
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27-May-1974 Jacques Chirac
26-Aug-1976 Raymond Barre
21-May-1981 Pierre Mauroy
17-Jul-1984 Laurent Fabius
20-Mar-1986 Jacques Chirac
10-May-1988 Michel Rocard
15-May-1991 Edith Cresson
2-Apr-1992 Pierre Bérégovoy
29-Mar-1993 Édouard Balladur
18-May-1995 Alain Juppé
3-Jun-1997 Lionel Jospin
6-May-2002 Jean-Pierre Raffarin
31-May-2005 Dominique de Villepin
17 May 2007 François Fillon
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Richard Nixon resigns as President, the only president to do so.
Gerald Ford resumed the presidency, making him the 38th president. Gerald Frod did not run again for president at the end of the term. -
Arthur Fry, an inventor at 3M, discovered that using Spencer Silver's weak adheasive, which had yet to be given a use, was a great adhesive for keeping page markers in his hymnal without destroying the pages. The first Post-It Note
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Wallace (Wally) Amos opened a Famous Amos cookie store (Keebler later made the cookies after him in 1998)
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop Microsoft.
November of 1985, Microsoft Windows was launched.
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After the death of General Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I was able to take the throne as the rightful heir.
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- Jimmy had a pet dog named Grits.
- At the age of 9, he bought 5 huge bales of cotton for 5 cents a pound. He stored the cotton and sold it a few years later when the price had more than tripled.
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- First woman elected Prime Minister of England
- Serves until 1990
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In Washintong, 50 miles NW of Portland, Oregon
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- He served 2 terms
- Ronald Reagan announced Chicago Cubs games for WHO radio in Des Moines. Later he became a famous movie and television actor. Reagan appeared in close to 50 movies. He also hosted The General Electric Theater and Death Valley Days. Both of these were popular TV shows.
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Michael Jackson released Thriller
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Hector P. Garcia, who helped for the American GI Forum, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan. He was the first mexican American to receive such a high civilian honor.
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Raul Gonzalez Jr. became the first Hispanic to serve as Justice of the Texas Supreme Court starting in 1984. He served until 1998. Still living.
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- methyl isocyonate leaked from a pesticide plant
- worst industrial accident in history
- Over the next 2 decades over 20,000 people die from the effects.
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- 400 times mroe radioactive material than the Atomic Bomb on Japan
- 237 diagnosed with acute radiation sickness, 31 died within 3 months.
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- Marilyn Monroe is one of his most famous paintings from the 1960s
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- He liked to play horseshoes and had a horse shoe pit installed on the White House lawn.
- He also enjoyed Pork Rinds with Tabasco sauce on them.
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- 260-750,000 barrels of oil in the Alaskan waters
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Nelson Mandella was released from prison!
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- "Operation Desert Storm"
- Started with the invasion of Kuwait
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Serves until 1997
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- 45th Governor of Texas (1990 Election)
- Died September 13, 2006
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Ellen Ochoa became the first female Hispanic astronaut. She has had more than 950 hours in space!
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In 1962, Sam Walton founded the first Walmart, which is now a major corporation in America. Sam Walton died in 1992.
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Limits changes to congressional pay.
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- He served 2 terms.
- His nickname as a child growing up in Arkansas was Bubba.
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Serves until 2007
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Princess Diana, heir to the English throne, died in a car accident.
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- He was impeached for pergery and obstruction of justice, but he was acquitted by the Senate.
- It arose out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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first First Lady to be elected office.
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- He served 2 terms.
- George Bush was a cheerleader in high school. He also played high school baseball.
- George W. Bush is the first president to have run a marathon (3:44:52).
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With the election of George W. Bush, Colin Powell became the first African American to serve as United States Secretary of State
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Todd Beamer died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 in a fight against the hijackers. The plane crashed in an open field, sill killing everyone on board.
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We probably all remember what we were doing on the frightful day that the World Trade Centers collapsed, which in turn trigured the Iraq War on Terrorism.
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Apple first released the iPad in 2001. The project was called "Dulcimer" before it was released.
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Kadir Nelson is an African American artist and illustrator whose work was first published with Brothers of the Knight by Debbie Allen. He even illustrated the cover to a Michael Jackson album in 2010
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Stanley Marcus, leader, innovator, merchant and CEO of Neiman Marcus Group, died
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Author of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and Little Squeegy Bug--The Story of the Firefly (his first 1945). He passed away in 2004
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John "Danny" Olivas, an American Astronaut of Mexican descent goes on the Atlantis shuttle mission.
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Serves until 2010
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- Elected 2 terms.
- First African American President.
- President Obama collects "Spiderman" and "Conan The Barbarian" comic books.
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Current Prime Minister
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- Leader of Al Qaeda
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In case we missed anything, here is a video that pretty much covers the rest of history.
We Didn't Start the Fire
Compiled by Megan Taggart and Caleb Gentry
