Were you at Marshall College in the 1950's? Review some of the history below and then share your history and any new information with your classmates on your Class pages. Reunion information, photo Albums, class notes and more can be shared.
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1950 - First Modern Credit Card was established, First Organ Transplant, First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip, Korean War Begins, Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt, U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
1951- Color TV Introduced, South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race, Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII, Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain
1952 - Car Seat Belts Introduced, The Great Smog of 1952, Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship, Polio Vaccine Created, Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25
1953 - DNA Discovered, Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest, Joseph Stalin Dies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage
1954 - Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman, First Atomic Submarine Launched, Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer, Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile,
Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.,
1955 - Disneyland Opens, Emmett Till Murdered, James Dean Dies in Car Accident, McDonald's Corporation Founded, Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus, Warsaw Pact Signed
1956 - Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show, Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco, Hungarian Revolution, Khrushchev Denounces Stalin,Suez Crisis, T.V. Remote Control Invented, Velcro Introduced 19
1957 - Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat, European Economic Community Established, Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age, Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit
1958 - Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize, Chinese Leader Mao Zedong
Launches the "Great Leap Forward", Hope Diamond is Donated to the
Smithsonian, Hula Hoops Become Popular, LEGO Toy Bricks First
Introduced, NASA Founded, Peace Symbol Created
1959 - Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba, International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve, Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev,
The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway, U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed