It may seem like video games have always been with us, and for most of us they have. Observe the evolution of video games graphics from 1950s Berlin to the big screen TV of the 2016 home. 'The video games, the movies, the Internet stuff is so violent,' Trump said at a White House meeting on school safety last week. The meeting was held in the wake of a deadly school shooting in. During these games, the first triple jump in figure skating history is performed by Dick Button, who won one of the four gold medals gained by U.S. April 8, 1952 - President Truman authorizes the seizure of United States steel mills in order to avert a strike, but his action is ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 2.
Photo above: A race to the moon. Right: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Company, Pennsylania, 1940-1946, U.S. Office of War Information. Courtesy Library of Congress.
U.S.Timeline - The 1950s
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1950-1959
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It may seem like video games have always been with us, and for most of us they have. Observe the evolution of video games graphics from 1950s Berlin to the big screen TV of the 2016 home. 'The video games, the movies, the Internet stuff is so violent,' Trump said at a White House meeting on school safety last week. The meeting was held in the wake of a deadly school shooting in. During these games, the first triple jump in figure skating history is performed by Dick Button, who won one of the four gold medals gained by U.S. April 8, 1952 - President Truman authorizes the seizure of United States steel mills in order to avert a strike, but his action is ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 2.
Photo above: A race to the moon. Right: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Company, Pennsylania, 1940-1946, U.S. Office of War Information. Courtesy Library of Congress.
U.S.Timeline - The 1950s
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1950-1959
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1950
January 14, 1950 - The United States recalls all consular officials from China after the seizure of the American consul general in Peking.
January 17, 1950 - The Brinks robbery in Boston occurs wheneleven masked bandits steal $2.8 million from an armored caroutside their express office.
April 1, 1950 - For the first time, the 1950 census counts apopulation in the United States over 150 million people. The14% increase since the last census now showed a count of150,697,361. The most populous state in the United States wasNew York, now followed by California. The geographic center ofthe United States population had now moved west into RichlandCounty, Illinois, 8 miles north-northwest of Olney.
June 25, 1950 - The Korean War begins its three year conflictwhen troops of North Korea, backed with Soviet weaponry,invade South Korea. This act leads to U.S. involvement when twodays later, the United States Air Force and Navy are ordered byPresident Truman to the peninsula. On June 30, ground forcesand air strikes are approved against North Korea.
June 27, 1950 - Thirty-five military advisors are sent to SouthVietnam to give military and economic aid to the anti-Communistgovernment.
November 26, 1950 - United Nations forces retreat south towardthe 38th parallel when Chinese Communist forces open acounteroffensive in the Korean War. This action halted anythought of a quick resolution to the conflict. On December 8,1950, shipments to Communist China are banned by the UnitedStates.
1951
February 28, 1951 - Preliminary report from the Senator Estes Kefauver investigation that had begun on May 11, 1950 intoorganized crime is issued, stating that gambling take was inexcess of $20 billion per year.
March 29, 1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guiltyof conspiracy of wartime espionage and sentenced to death.They were executed June 19, 1953. Morton Sobell was alsoconvicted of the crime and sentenced to thirty years in prison.
September 1, 1951 - The United States, Australia, and NewZealand sign a mutual security pact, the ANZUS Treaty.
September 4, 1951 - The inauguration of trans-continentaltelevision occurs with the broadcast of President Truman'sspeech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in SanFrancisco. The treaty would be signed on September 8 by theU.S., Japan, and forty-seven other nations.
December 12, 1951 - Richard Buckminster Fuller files patent forthe Geodesic Dome. The dome building, under his design, wouldbe utilized in many futuristic constructions, particularly by Fuller in world exhibitions, such as his famous United States Pavilion at the Montreal World's Fair of 1967.
1952
February 14, 1952 - The 1952 Winter Olympics open in Helsinki, Finland with thirty participating nations. During these games, the first triple jump in figure skating history is performed by Dick Button, who won one of the four gold medals gained by U.S. athletes.
April 8, 1952 - President Truman authorizes the seizure of United States steel mills in order to avert a strike, but his action is ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 2.
November 1, 1952 - At Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, thefirst hydrogen bomb, named Mike, is exploded.
November 4, 1952 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower, a newcomerto politics, but popular due to his role in winning World War II asEuropean commander, gains an easy victory over Democraticchallenger Adlai E. Stevenson. The Electoral College vote was442 to 89.
November 29, 1952 - President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhowertravels to Korea to try and end the conflict.
1953
April 25, 1953 - The description of a double helix DNA molecule is published by British physicist Francis Crick and American scientist James D. Watson. They, along with New Zealand born scientist Maurice Wilkins, were awarded the Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine for their discovery in 1962.
July 27, 1953 - Fighting ceases in the Korean War. The United Nations Command, including the United States, and the combatants North Korea and the Republic of China sign an armistice agreement.
August 19, 1953 - The United States CIA assists in the overthrowof the government in Iran, and retains the Shah MohammadReza Pahlavi to the throne.
October 30, 1953 - The Cold War continues in earnest whenPresident Dwight D. Eisenhower approves a top secret documentstating that the U.S. nuclear arsenal must be expanded tocombat the communist threat around the world.
December 30, 1953 - The first color televisions go on sale.
1954
February 23, 1954 - The first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
April 22, 1954 - Joseph McCarthy begins televised Senatehearings into alleged Communist influence in the United StatesArmy. Later this year, on December 2, the U.S. Congress votesto condemn Senator McCarthy for his conduct during the Armyinvestigation hearings.
May 17, 1954 - Racial segregation in public schools is declaredunconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brownvs. the Board of Education. The ruling of the court stated thatracial segregation violated the 14th Amendment's clause thatguaranteed equal protection. The Monroe School in Topeka,Kansas had segregated Linda Brown in its classes.
September 8, 1954 - In Bangkok, Thailand, the Southeast AsiaTreaty Organization is formed by the U.S., Great Britain,Australia, New Zealand, France, the Philippines, Pakistan, andThailand, creating a mutual defense pact.
In 1954, Ray Kroc founds the idea for the McDonald'scorporation, agreeing to franchise the idea of Dick and MacMcDonald, who had started the first McDonald's restaurant in1940 and had eight restaurants by 1954. Kroc would incorporatethe entity on March 2, 1955 and open his first franchise on April 15 in Des Plaines, Illinois. He would buy out the McDonald's brothers in 1961.
1955
February 12, 1955 - The United States government agrees totrain South Vietnamese troops.
May 31, 1955 - The Supreme Court of the United States ordersthat all public schools be integrated with deliberate speed.
July 17, 1955 - Disneyland, the brainchild of Walt Disney, whosefatherhad worked at previous world's fairs and inspired his son to build the iconic Magic Castle and other exhibits opens in Anaheim, California, with the backing of the new television network, ABC. Disneyland California remains today as one of the greatest theme park capitals of the world and some say is second only to his second park built some years later on the other side of the country, Disney World Florida. Disney World was additionally inspired by the subsequent New York World's Fair of 1964-5, with the original intention by Walt Disney to build the second park on the Flushing Meadows site of that event.
December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks, an African Americanseamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a whiteman, prompting a boycott that would lead to the declaration thatbus segregation laws were unconstitutional by a federal court.
December 5, 1955 - The two largest American labor unions, theAmerican Federation of Labor and the Congress of IndustrialOrganizations, merge to form the AFL-CIO, boastingmembership of fifteen million.
1956
March 12, 1956 - Congressmen from Southern states call formassive resistance, the Southern Manifesto, to the SupremeCourt ruling on desegregation.
June 29, 1956 - Interstate highway system begins with thesigning of the Federal-Aid Highway Act.
September 25, 1956 - The first transatlantic telephone cablebegins operation.
October 8, 1956 - Don Larsen pitches the first no-hitter, a perfect game, in post-season baseball history when his New YorkYankees best the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 5th game of the 1956World Series.
November 6, 1956 - A repeat challenge in the presidentialelection between Eisenhower and Stevenson gains a similaroutcome, with easy victory for the incumbent president by a 457to 73 margin in the Electoral College vote.
1957
January 20, 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower isinaugurated for his second term in office.
March 13, 1957 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrestslabor leader Jimmy Hoffa under a bribery charge.
April 29, 1957 - U.S. Congress approves the first civil rights bill since reconstruction with additional protection of voting rights.
September 4, 1957 - National Guard called to duty by ArkansasGovernor Orval Faubus to bar nine black students from attendingpreviously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.He withdrew the troops on September 21 and the students wereallowed entrance to class two days later. A threat of violencecaused President Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops to LittleRock on September 24 to enforce the edict.
December 6, 1957 - The first attempt by the United States tolaunch a satellite into space fails when it explodes on thelaunchpad.
November 1957 - Gordon Gould, an American physicist, invents the laser, It would take him until 1977 to win a protracted legal battle over patent rights, and he did not start receiving royalties on his work until 1988. Gould was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991.
1958
January 31, 1958 - Explorer I, the first U.S. space satellite, is launched by the Army at Cape Canaveral. It would discover the Van Allen radiation belt.
April 17, 1958 - The first major world's fair since the end of World War II opens in Brussels, Belgium and evokes a Cold Wardebate between the pavilions of the Soviet Union and the UnitedStates. Their competing visions of the world vie for the attention of the over 41 million visitors to the event, also noted for the Atomium atom molecular structure that stood as the fair's theme. The expo, sanctioned by the Bureau of International Exhibitions, closed on October 19, 1958.
July 8, 1958 - The Lituya Bay, Alaska earthquake registers 7.5 on the Richter scale, producing a landslide that caused a megatsunami with a 520 meter high wave. Only two people were killed in the incident, due to the desolate nature of the area involved. The wave dissipated when reaching the open sea.
October 1, 1958 - NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, begins operations as a civilian agency of the federal government dedicated to space science, replacing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
December 10, 1958 - Jet airline passenger service is inauguratedin the United States by National Airlines with a flight betweenNew York City and Miami, Florida.
1959
January 3, 1959 - Alaska is admitted to the United States as the 49th state to be followed on August 21 by Hawaii.
January 7, 1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cubangovernment under rebel leader Fidel Castro. Castro becomes thePremier of Cuba on February 16.
February 22, 1959 - The Daytona 500 stock car race is run forthe first time with Lee Petty taking the first checkered flag.
April 9, 1959 - NASA selects the first seven military pilots tobecome the Mercury Seven, first astronauts of the United States.The Mercury Seven included John Glenn, Scott Carpenter,Gordon Cooper, Gus Griscom, Wally Scare, Alan Shepard, andDeke Slayton.
April 25, 1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway is opened along theCanada and United States borders, allowing increased shiptraffic between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.
September 26, 1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower hostsSoviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the first visit of any Soviet Union leader to the United States.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Eisenhower, andGeneral Patton in Castelvetrano, Sicily, December 8, 1943, during World War II. By 1952, Eisenhower would become president. Photo courtesy National Archives.
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A visit to Eisenhower National Historic Site should not be missed if you are visiting Gettysburg. Its home and farm evoke the time of the general and his wife, with period furnishings and tales of not only his presidency and the meetings with world and national leaders at the farm, but his life in Gettysburg and prior to that, in World War II. The farm was the only home Eisenhower owned in his lifetime.
Astronaut John Glenn and others around capsule, October 1958.Photo: NASA