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Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles that featured the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Satire and humor during the 1950s were popular and abundant. MAD, the American humor magazine, was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952.
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.
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.
1950 in the United States; 1950s American automobile culture; 1950s House; 1950s–1960s North American drought; 1951 in the United States; 1952 in the United States; 1953 in the United States; 1954 in the United States; 1955 in the United States; 1956 in the United States; 1957 in the United States; 1958 in the United States; 1959 in the ...
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 ...
Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett: Splitting up America’s leading chipmaker is a bad idea Americans paid $100B since 2008 to access their own money. I am petitioning the Fed to end this racket
The book is written by William Hitchcock, a historian who studies modern European history and Cold War history. [1] Hitchcock spent eight years researching and writing the book, using archives from the Eisenhower Presidential Library, the National Archives at College Park, the Library of Congress, and the Miller Center for Public Affairs.
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