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1950-1959

Korean War Starts: North Koreans invade South Korea

Korean War -- By JACK JAMES -- June 25, 1950

Korean War: MacArthur cable to United Press President Hugh Baille

Korean War -- December 01, 1950

Queen Elizabeth II begins reign

Churchill, King George, Queen Elizabeth II -- February 06, 1952

King George: All the world mourns monarch

Churchill, King George, Queen Elizabeth II -- By the United Press -- February 06, 1952

Lines two miles long at Stalin Bier

Death Of Stalin -- By HENRY SHAPIRO -- March 06, 1953

Profile: Stalin rallied Russians over Nazis

Death Of Stalin -- By United Press -- March 06, 1953

Rosenberg executed as spies

Rosenbergs Executed -- By JACK WOLISTON -- June 20, 1953

Supreme Court strikes down school segregation

Civil Rights: Desegregation -- May 17, 1954

Negroes boycott bus line to protest Rosa Parks arrest

Civil Rights: Desegregation -- December 05, 1955

Reporter weeps at "murder of a people" in Hungary

Hungarian Revolution -- By RUSSELL JONES -- November 15, 1956

Hungarians ask reporter: "How do I get out?"

Hungarian Revolution -- By RUSSELL JONES -- November 21, 1956

Hungarians defy Soviet tanks in kidnap protest

Hungarian Revolution -- By RUSSELL JONES -- December 03, 1956

Russian tanks block defiant Hungarian women

Hungarian Revolution -- By RUSSELL JONES -- December 05, 1956

Hungarian proletarians fought the hardest

Hungarian Revolution -- By RUSSELL JONES -- December 10, 1956

Negroes slip by angry mob, enter Little Rock high school whites leave

Civil Rights: Desegregation -- September 23, 1957

Soviets launch Sputnik

Space Race: Sputnik -- By United Press -- October 04, 1957

Ape to ride next Sputnik, dog still alive in Sputnik II

Space Race: Sputnik -- By HENRY SHAPIRO -- November 04, 1957

Profile: Castro won power in two years

Cuban Revolution -- January 02, 1959

China Reds recognized by Britain

United Press -- January 06, 1950

India gains full independence

United Press -- January 26, 1950

Sen. McCarthy's charge denied by State Department

United Press -- February 10, 1950

FBI names 10 top men on 'most wanted' list

James Lee -- March 14, 1950

North Koreans invade South Korea

By JACK JAMES -- June 25, 1950

North Koreans drive within four miles of Seoul

By JACK JAMES -- June 27, 1950

American Reds defy new law; declare they won't register

United Press -- September 24, 1950

Seoul liberated by Allied might

September 26, 1950

2 shot in seeming effort to kill Truman

United Press -- November 01, 1950

MacArthur cable to UP's Hugh Baille

December 01, 1950

Dr. Ralph Bunche gets Peace Prize in Oslo program

United Press -- December 11, 1950

Seoul abandoned to red hordes

United Press -- January 04, 1951

Argentine leader opens 'Games'

David Wilson -- February 25, 1951

Utah allows Nevada honor of ratifying amendment to Constitution

United Press -- February 28, 1951

Paris revels on 2,000th anniversary

International News Service -- July 08, 1951

First dialed long distance call history

United Press -- November 11, 1951

Joe DiMaggio retires as player

United Press International -- December 11, 1951

New ruler weeps at news of king's death

February 06, 1952

All the world mourns dead British monarch

By the United Press -- February 06, 1952

First landing made at North Pole

United Press -- May 05, 1952

Nude calendar beauty at last is identified: Marilyn Monroe

Aline Mosby -- May 13, 1952

Puerto Rico celebrates new freedom status

International News Service -- July 25, 1952

Jordan's king loses throne, others 'nervous in service'

Phil Newsom -- August 11, 1952

'The Radiant Queen', Picture of the Era

United Press -- November 07, 1952

Hydrogen bomb officially joins America's arsenal

United Press -- November 17, 1952

Hank Williams dies on way to show

United Press -- January 01, 1953

Tenley Albright wins women's figure skating

United Press -- February 15, 1953

Lines 2 miles long wait at Stalin bier

By HENRY SHAPIRO -- March 06, 1953

Profile: Stalin rallied Russians over Nazis

By United Press -- March 06, 1953

Choice for best film surprises film folk

United Press -- March 20, 1953

Rosenbergs go silently to electric chair

By JACK WOLISTON -- June 20, 1953

Firing stops in Korea, GIs in front line start moving back

By EARNEST HOBERECHT -- July 27, 1953

Bloody coup fells Iran's Mossadegh

United Press -- August 19, 1953

Senator Kennedy marries heiress as police hold back sightseers

September 12, 1953

Man gets divorce decades after desertion

United Press -- January 21, 1954

First atomic sub launched today

United Press -- January 21, 1954

Fanatics rake House with gunfire

United Press -- March 01, 1954

Giant U.S. airlift aiding French

United Press -- April 21, 1954

Dien Bien Phu overrun by rebels

United Press -- May 07, 1954

Supreme Court strikes down public school segregation

May 17, 1954

100 men killed and 125 injured by blast aboard USS Bennington

James Baar -- May 26, 1954

'Under God' added to pledge of allegiance

United Press -- June 14, 1954

Indochina War comes to halt

United Press -- August 11, 1954

Bill signed to outlaw communists

United Press -- August 24, 1954

Hurricane Carol heads toward coast of North Carolina

United Press -- August 30, 1954

Navy accepts first atomic submarine

United Press -- September 30, 1954

Weeping Marilyn gets divorce after telling judge Joe was 'cold,' 'indifferent' to her

Aline Mosby -- October 27, 1954

Woman victim to get Alabama meteorite

United Press -- December 02, 1954

Scientist Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine

April 20, 1955

69 die in race car blast

United Press -- June 11, 1955

Kids are delighted with Disneyland

Aline Mosby -- July 18, 1955

Two white men charged with kidnapping negro

August 30, 1955

Murder charge due against two in death of negro boy

September 01, 1955

Dictator Peron resignation negotiated by rebel forces

United Press -- September 19, 1955

Cat, Mouse Hold Oscar Honor Record

By Vernon Scott, United Press -- September 22, 1955

James Dean, bobby sox movie idol, is killed

ALINE MOSBY -- October 01, 1955

Negroes boycott bus line to protest Rosa Parks arrest

December 05, 1955

Newly wed Princess Grace, Prince Rainier honeymoon in Iberia

International News Service -- April 20, 1956

Film on "Flying Saucers" claims to be taken from government files

Aline Mosby, United Press Hollywood Writer -- April 26, 1956

Hope dims for 258 fire-trapped Belgian miners

United Press -- August 08, 1956

Don Larsen on perfect game: Dodger batters in ninth looked like Williams

Don Larsen as told to the United Press -- October 09, 1956

Eisenhower wins re-election

United Press -- November 07, 1956

Reporter weeps at "murder of a people" in Hungary

By RUSSELL JONES -- November 15, 1956

Hungarians ask reporter: "How do I get out?"

By RUSSELL JONES -- November 21, 1956

Tommy Dorsey's death held accident

United Press -- November 27, 1956

Hungarians defy Soviet tanks in kidnap protest

By RUSSELL JONES -- December 03, 1956

Russian tanks block defiant Hungarian women

By RUSSELL JONES -- December 05, 1956

Hungarian proletarians fought the hardest

By RUSSELL JONES -- December 10, 1956

Ghana, first negro native colony, born

United Press -- March 06, 1957

Six European nations sign pooling pacts

March 26, 1957

Inoculation of 57 million children to start at once

United Press -- April 13, 1957

Althea Brings Home Prize She Pursued for 15 Years

July 08, 1957

President Eisenhower takes recess from test

July 13, 1957

A-quake cavern taboo 100 years

United Press -- September 20, 1957

Negroes slip by angry mob, enter school; whites leave

September 23, 1957

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space

By United Press -- October 04, 1957

Ape to ride next Sputnik, dog still alive in No. 2

By HENRY SHAPIRO -- November 04, 1957

Farmer hints he killed woman; police find 10 skulls

United Press -- November 18, 1957

Elizabeth marries amid Westminster splendor as all England cheers

Robert Musel -- November 20, 1957

Plane crashes with soccer team aboard

United Press -- February 06, 1958

U.S. fighting men sent to Nixon's protection in Venezuela

United Press International -- May 14, 1958

United Press, International News Service in merger

United Press International -- May 24, 1958

U.S. makes ready to launch program for outer space conquest

United Press International -- July 29, 1958

Nautilus completes polar trip

United Press International -- August 08, 1958

Air cadets moving into new academy

United Press International -- August 29, 1958

Marlon Brando comparison annoys Paul Newman

Vernon Scott -- November 04, 1958

Dislikes walking

United Press International -- November 28, 1958

Full 6,325 mile range completed; test meats Reds

Richard F. Roper -- November 28, 1958

Castro won power in two years

January 02, 1959

Russian rocket half way to moon

United Press International -- January 03, 1959

First jet transport spans U.S. in 4 hours

United Press International -- January 25, 1959

Self-Hypnosis Gives Mother Painless Childbirth

January 31, 1959

Crash kills three rock 'n' roll stars

United Press International International -- February 03, 1959

Castro becomes Cuban premier

Francis L. McCarthy -- February 17, 1959

Petty winner in 500-mile race

United Press International -- February 26, 1959

Tibet's Lama escapes Red pursuers

United Press International -- April 02, 1959

'Volare' wins top record honor at Grammy Awards

United Press International -- May 05, 1959

Ex-U.W. Co-ed Becomes 'The Toast of New York'

By Jack Gaver -- May 29, 1959

Instrumental U.S. satellite is in orbit

United Press International -- August 07, 1959

USSR rocket lands on moon

United Press International -- September 13, 1959

Lloyd Wright museum opens in N.Y. today

United Press International -- October 21, 1959

U.S., Soviet Union sign treaty for peaceful use of Antarctica

December 01, 1959

Events

Civil Rights: Desegregation

Churchill, King George, Queen Elizabeth II

Death Of Stalin

Rosenbergs Executed

McCarthy Red Hunt

Cuban Revolution

Suez Crisis: Gaza Occupation

Space Race: Sputnik

De Gaulle To Power

Khrushchev Visits U.S.

Hungarian Revolution

Ghana, Treaty Of Rome

Audio

1959 Year In Review

Intro to the Events of 1959

Cuban Revolution

Death of John Foster Dulles

Dalai Lama Flees Tibet

Governor Earl Long Goes Crazy

City Gangs and a Lynching in Mississippi

Nixon visits Russia

Khrushchev Visits the United States

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25 years ago: Misery, desperation in wake of Hurricane Andrew

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How the draft has evolved in the 100 years since Selective Service Act

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15 years later: Remembering the events of 9/11

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Containment still an issue 30 years after Chernobyl disaster

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First Aero Squadron: 100 years since first U.S. air combat mission

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Challenger disaster: World reacts in sorrow

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Challenger disaster at 30: Did the tragedy change NASA for the better?

Challenger disaster at 30: Did the tragedy change NASA for the better?

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Yitzhak Rabin's legacy 20 years later: A pliable history

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