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An American family watching television together in 1958. The 1950s are known as the Golden Age of Television by some people. Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts.
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
April 1 – Charles R. Drew, African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion, died as result of automobile accident (b. 1904) April 7 – Walter Huston, actor (b. 1883) April 11 – Bainbridge Colby, United States Secretary of State (b. 1869) April 16 – Henry J. Knauf, politician (b. 1891) April 26 – G. Murray Hulbert, politician ...
The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...
May 4 – Jackie Jackson, African American pop singer (The Jackson 5) May 9 – Joy Harjo, Native American poet; May 12 – Joe Nolan, baseball player; May 13. Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis; Guy Morriss, American football coach and player (d. 2022) [16] May 15. Jonathan Richman, proto-punk singer-songwriter and guitarist
These interesting fun facts span categories like history, science, art, food, space and more. ... In 1950, a black “M” was added to the candy so consumers could tell the difference between the ...
The idea that high-income Americans in the 1950s paid significantly more taxes is largely a myth. While the top marginal tax rate was 91%, the effective tax rate — the actual percentage of ...
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