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Truman was inaugarated because of the death of Franklin Roosevelt During WWII.
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An award winning broadway musical opens on April, 7.
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Doris Day Becomes well known from the film My Dream Is Yours. It premiered April 16, 1949.
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Marilyn soars in popularity after multiple new movies including The Asphault Jungle. She was in her prime time around 1950. ide and rumored romances.
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North and South Korea declare war on eachother.
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Richard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate.
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The popular broadway musical opens March, 29.
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J. D. Salinger's controversial novel is first published on July, 16.
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Queen Elizabeth II succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom after her father died.
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A vaccine for polio was invented and privatly tested by Jonas Stalk. The vaccine was later revealed to the public.
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Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott and becomes the new heavy weight champion.
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George Santayana, famous philosopher and writer, dies on September 26.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected as US president.
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Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, dies.
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A Rusian composer, Sergei Prokofiev, dies on March 5th.
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An African-American major league baseball player recieves MVP for the 2nd time around 1953.
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Malenkov suceeds Stalin because of his death.
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Peter Pan is broadcast on TV starring Mary Martin.
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Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy's cheif of counsil, resigns in April of 1954.
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Bill Haley realeased his hit-single "Rock Around The Clock".
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"Davy Crockett" becomes a popular Disney TV series.
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Albert Einstein dies at age 76.
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Disneyland first opens as Walt Disney's first themepark.
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After much success, James Dean dies in an automobile accident at age 24.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series for their first time.
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Elvis Presley Signs with RCA records and begins his pop career.
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Alabama is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Kruschev makes his famous "Secret Speech".
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Egypt nationolizes the Suez canal.
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Russian author, Boris Pasternak, published Doctor Zhivago in 1957.
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Sputnik is the first sattelite launched by the Soviet Union. It marked the beginning of the space race.
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Holly dies in a plane crash in February.
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Ben-Hur was a film based around the new estament starring Charlton Heston. It premiered on November, 18, and later won 11 academy awards.
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An Alfred Hitchcock thriller, based on a novel by Robert Bloch, premiered on June 16, 1960.
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Ernest Hemingway commis suicide after dealing with depression.
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James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi for the first time.
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Beatlmania is a term describing the fan frenzy for a band called "The Beatles" that originated in the UK then spread to the US. They were first recognized in the Uk when their first hit-single "Love Me Do" was released October 5, 1962. They sarked the british invasion of US pop charts.
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Woodstock was a famous music and art festival held in Bethel, New York. It took place from August 15-18.
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A hit game show, Wheel of Fortune, first aired January 6, 1975.
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Punk Rock became extremely popular in the UK and the US between 1974 and 1976. Bands such as the ramones were highly known for punk rock.
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Ronald Reagan is elected as president of the United States of America.
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Coke and Pepsi companies both advertise with rock-androll to attract young audiences. The cola wars were most intense around the 1980s to the 1990s.
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