June 25,1950: The Korean War
The Korean War initially began as a domestic conflict between both North & South Korea, but the problem soon became an international struggle when the United Nations supported South Korea & the PRC (Peoples Republic of China) decided to assist North Korea in the war. Once this occurred, Korea was left undivided and the people of the nation had long-lasting repercussions because they failed as a unified country. The US believed from the fall of Korea, they could indeed benefit from it, so they promoted the rise of NATO & protection of Japan. |
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October 2, 1950:The First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip. When Schulz sold his first strip to the United Feature Syndicate in 1950, it was the Syndicate that changed the name from Li'l Folks to Peanuts - a name that Schulz himself never liked.The very first strip was four panels long and showed Charlie Brown walking by two other young children, Shermy and Patty.(Snoopy was the also an early character in the strip, but he did not appear in the very first one.)
1953: The discovery of DNA was established by James Watson and Francis Crick. The discovery of the double helix marked a milestone in the history of science. The discovery supported the ground-breaking insights of making proteins and genetic coding.
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1951: Winston Churchill was an inspirational writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice - from 1940 to 1945 (before being defeated in the 1945 general election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee) and from 1951 to 1955. After being chosen to be Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940 to lead the country during World War II, Winston Churchill refused to surrender to the Germans, built up British morale, and became a central force of the Allies.
December 5,1952: The Great Smog of 1952 occurred. When a thick fog engulfed London from December 5 to December 9, 1952, it mixed with black smoke emitted from homes and factories to create a deadly smog. This smog killed approximately 12,000 people and shocked the world into starting the environmental movement.
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![]() June 25,1951: Whilst procedures with color television had concurred with the establishment of black and white television, it wasn't until the 1950s that aims were made to profoundly commence color television. On January 12th, 1950, the widespread public audience was initiated to color television foremost when CBS signified its “field sequential” color system on more than five television sets located in the Walker Building in Washington. September 22,1952: Swedish inventor, Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seat belt - not the first but the modern seat belt - now a standard safety device in most cars. Nils Bohlin's lap-and-shoulder belt was introduced by Volvo in 1959.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956.On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks’ court hearing and lasted 381 days.
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