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1950 in American politics (3 C, 2 P) 1950s State of the Union addresses (11 P) 1951 in American politics (4 C, 3 P) 1952 in American politics (3 C, 4 P)
1950 – NBC airs Broadway Open House a late-night comedy, variety, talk show through 1951. Hosted by Morey Amsterdam and Jerry Lester and Dagmar, it serves as the prototype for The Tonight Show; 1950 – Failed assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationals on President Harry S. Truman while he was living at Blair House.
January 26 – Jack Youngblood, American football player, sportscaster and actor; January 29 Tom Brown Jr., naturalist and tracker (d. 2024) Max Carl, singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player; January 30 – Trinidad Silva, actor (d. 1988) January 31 – Fred Karger, political consultant; February 1 – Mike Campbell, musician
American money and manufactured goods flooded into Europe, South Korea, and Japan and helped in their reconstruction. US manufacturing dominance would be almost unchallenged for a quarter-century after 1945. The American economy grew dramatically in the post-war period, expanding at a rate of 3.5% per year between 1945 and 1970.
1950s in American politics (12 C) Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (8 C, 73 P) Presidency of Harry S. Truman (8 C, 66 P) 1950s in Puerto Rico (13 C, 2 P) R.
As the Tax Foundation writes, in 2014, the top 1% of taxpayers paid an average of 36.4% of their income in taxes — or about 5.6 percentage points less than in the 1950s. The idea that high ...
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.
Dan Bishop’s ignorance of what Black men faced in the 1950s is ... No one pretended Edwards was on trial only because of politics, or because he was a rich powerful white man, the kind of man ...