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  • thaislcrd
    thaislcrd Posts: 76 Member
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    1947, 1st NBA Championship: Phila Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2
  • martymum
    martymum Posts: 413 Member
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    1948 July 5 – The National Health Service Acts are enacted in United Kingdom

    martyx
  • voyagerintrepid
    voyagerintrepid Posts: 15 Member
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    1948 - PBS begins broadcasting out of New York - Newark, NY.
  • SunKissed1989
    SunKissed1989 Posts: 1,314 Member
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    1948

    11th June - First monkey astronaut, Albert I was launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico

    also

    1st December - My dad was born (just thought I'd throw that in there :tongue: )
  • devonette
    devonette Posts: 263 Member
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    June 24, 1949 -- The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.
  • theartichoke
    theartichoke Posts: 816 Member
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    Jan 1950 - President Harry Truman OK's building of the Hydrogen Bomb.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
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    1949

    The first 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
  • galaxyhearts
    galaxyhearts Posts: 258 Member
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    1950

    The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven U.S. newspapers.
  • martymum
    martymum Posts: 413 Member
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    1951

    October 15 Norethindrone, the progestin used in the oral contraceptive is synthesized by Luis E. Miramontes.

    Thankyou Luis lol

    martyx
  • mikey1976
    mikey1976 Posts: 1,005 Member
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    1950
    •First Modern Credit Card Introduced
    •First Organ Transplant
    •First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
    •Korean War Begins
    •Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
    •U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
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    sorry i was beat
  • SunKissed1989
    SunKissed1989 Posts: 1,314 Member
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    1952

    15th June - "The Diary of a Young Girl" (Anne Frank) is published in English
  • CampKelly
    CampKelly Posts: 172 Member
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    1951....the king and I opens on broadway
  • mamamc03
    mamamc03 Posts: 1,067 Member
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    1953- first Chevy corvette!!
  • memmers
    memmers Posts: 112
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    June 14 1954 – The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
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    November 5th, 1955


    Through his vision of the Flux Capacitor, Dr Emmit Brown invents time travel.
  • mikey1976
    mikey1976 Posts: 1,005 Member
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    November 5th, 1955


    Through his vision of the Flux Capacitor, Dr Emmit Brown invents time travel.

    and my mom was born 1955 july 21


    1956
    •Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show
    •Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco
    •Hungarian Revolution
    •Khrushchev Denounces Stalin
    •Suez Crisis
    •T.V. Remote Control Invented
    •Velcro Introduced 19
  • Lib_B
    Lib_B Posts: 446 Member
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    June 14 1954 – The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

    nuh-uh. that was tommy jefferson. :tongue:

    or so says fox 'news.' :wink:
  • Lib_B
    Lib_B Posts: 446 Member
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    1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded. you know, they were integral in a little thing called the civil rights movement...
  • 13519485
    13519485 Posts: 264
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    19 July 1958 - The Beatles, then The Quarrymen, pay 17 shillings and 6 pence to have their first recording session where they record That'll Be The Day by Buddy Holly and In Spite Of All The Danger by Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
  • BlessedMomX2
    BlessedMomX2 Posts: 242 Member
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    1959 •Mattel's Barbie Doll is Launched

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