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Droping Of The Atomic Bomb
Something changed froever on Aug. 6, 1945 it was the first time the world witnessed the explosion of an atomic bomb droped on the Japanese city of hiroshima nickednamed 'Littile Boy' causing innediate death of 70,000 people and an estimated 200,000 victoms succumbed to nuculear radiation. Ening the war 8 days later. http://www.euronews.com/2013/08/01/back-in-the-day-the-invention-of-atomic/ -
Korean War
on June 25, 1950 the young cold war turned cold, bloody and expensive. Within a few days, North Korea's invasion of South Korea brought about United Nations 'Police Action' against the aggressors. While ther were no illusion that that task would be easy, nobody expected that, that violent conflict would continue for more than three years. Finally in July 1953 the Korean War came to an end. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/kowar/kowar.htm -
Television Becomes Increasingly Common
Between 1953-1955 became the golden age for television. Television programing be gan to take some steps away from radio formates. http://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm -
Elvis Presley Becomes International Star
Presly becames an international star on 1956. He and parker traveled to Nashville, where Presley cut his first records for RCA, and on January 1956 the singer made his national television debut on the Dorsey Brothers stage show followed by six consecutive appreances.http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/elvis-presley/biography -
USSR Launches Sputnik, Beginning the Space Race
History changed on october 4, 1957 when the sovient union successfully launched Sputnik 1. The world's first articial satellite was about the size of a beach ball weighed only 83.6 Kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took only 98 minutes to orbit the earth on its elliptical path. While Spunnick launched was a signal event it marked the start of the space age and the U.S-U.S.S.R space race. http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/ -
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
This "act enforced the fifteenth amendment to the consitution" was singed into law 95 yearsafter the amendment was ratified. This act was singed into law on August 6, 1965, by president Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil war, including literacy test as a prerequisite to voting. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100 -
Immigration Act Of 1965
The legislation which phased out the national origins quota, system first instituted in 1921, created the foundation of today's immigration law. And, contrary to the president's assertions it inaugurated a new era of mass immiratio0n which has affected the lives of millions. http://cis.org/1965ImmigrationAct-MassImmigration -
Martin Luther King Jr. Takes Civil Rights Movement to the North
Martin Luther KIng Rr. the pre-eminent non-violant leader of the black civil rights movement came to chicago in 1966 in an attempt to confront de facto segregation in the urban north. http://sites.middlebury.edu/chicagofreedommovement/dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 and died on April 4, 1968 at the age of 39. DR Martin Luther King Jr. had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Corraine Motel in Memphos TN when he was shot. The bullet entered his right check, traveled through his nick and finally stopped at his shoulder blade. He was quickly taken to the hospital. http://history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass.htm -
American Lands on the Moon
On july 1969 it's a little over eight years since the flights of Garin and Shepard, followed quickly by president Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html#.VH9urtLF-So
