Alumni Update
World Events:
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LAST 50 YEARS
- 1950 - First Modern Credit Card Introduced
- 1950 -Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
- 1951 - Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII
- 1954 - Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
- 1955 - Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
- 1957 - Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat
- 1957 - Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age
- 1958 - Lego Toy Bricks First Introduced
- 1958 - NASA Founded
- 1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
- 1961 - Berlin Wall Built
- 1962 - Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
- 1963 - JFK Assassinated
- 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
- 1964 - Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
- 1965 - Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
- 1967 - First Super Bowl
- 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
- 1969 - Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
- 1969 - Sesame Street First Airs
- 1970 - Beatles Break Up
- 1972 - Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
- 1972 - Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
- 1973 - Abortion Legalized in U.S.
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1974 - U.S. President Nixon Resigns
