| Date |
Event |
| 1946 |
U.N. Meets - London |
| 1946 |
Nuremberg Trials |
| 1947 |
Truman Doctrine - Contain Communists |
| 1947 |
India & Pakistan Independent |
| 1947 |
Sound Barrier - USAF - Chuck Yeager |
| 1947 |
Pro Black Ball Player - Jackie Robinson |
| 1947 |
Holograph - Dennis Gabor |
| 1947 |
Microwave Oven - Percy Spencer |
| 1947 |
Radiocarbon Dating - Willard Libby |
| 1947 |
Transistor |
| 1948 |
Segregation Abolished in Military - Harry Truman |
| 1948 |
Polaroid Camera - Edwin Land |
| 1948 |
Big Bang Theory - George Gamow |
| 1949 |
NATO |
| 1949 |
Soviet A-Bomb |
| 1949 |
Peoples Republic of China - Mao Zedong |
| 1950 |
Korean War Begins |
| 1951 |
Color TV Broadcasts |
| 1951 |
Computer - Numeric & Alphabetic - UNIVAC |
| 1951 |
Oral Contraceptive |
| 1951 |
Color Television |
| 1952 |
H-Bomb - Edmond Teller & Harry Truman |
| 1952 |
Integrated Circuit - G. Dummer |
| 1952 |
Polio Vaccine - Jonas Salk |
| 1953 |
Dwight Eisenhower - President |
| 1953 |
Molecular Model of DNA - James Watson & Francis Crick |
| 1953 |
Korean War Ends |
| 1953 |
Soviet H-Bomb |
| 1953 |
DNA - Double Helix |
| 1953 |
Measles Vaccine - John Enders, Thomas Peebles |
| 1953 |
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| 1954 |
Atomic Sub - Nautilus |
| 1954 |
Segregation in Public Schools Banned - Brown v Brd. Ed. |
| 1954 |
Polio Vaccine - Jonas Salk |
| 1955 |
Martin King - Civil Rights |
| 1955 |
Fiber Optics - Narinder Kapany |
| 1956 |
Rotary Engine - Felix Wankel |
| 1957 |
Federal Troops Integrate School - Little Rock, AR - Dwight
Eisenhower |
| 1957 |
Space Age - Earth Satellite - Sputnik - Soviet |
| 1957 |
Heart Pacemaker |
| 1957 |
Superconductivity Theory |
| 1958 |
U.S. Satellite - Explorer - Werner Von Braun |
| 1958 |
Van Allen Belt |
| 1959 |
St. Lawrence Seaway |
| 1959 |
Alaska & Hawaii States |
| 1959 |
Phase-Shift Oscillating Integrated Circuit - Jack Kilby |
| 1960 |
Working Laser - T. Mainman |
| 1961 |
John Kennedy - President |
| 1961 |
Human in Space - Yuri Gagarin |
| 1961 |
50 Megaton H-Bomb detonated - Soviet |
| 1962 |
American in Space - John Glenn |
| 1963 |
Artificial Heart - Dr. Michael DeBakey - Huston |
| 1963 |
Required Prayer Banned in Public Schools |
| 1963 |
Lyndon Johnson - President |
| 1963 |
Quasars - Martin Schmidt |
| 1964 |
Congressional Districts to have Equal Population |
| 1964 |
Vietnam War Start - Gulf of Tonkin |
| 1965 |
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation - Amo Penzias,
Robert Wilson |
| 1966 |
Insulin Synthesized - China |
| 1967 |
Human Heart Transplant - Dr. Christian Barnard |
| 1967 |
Quarks - Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor |
| 1969 |
Richard Nixon - President |
| 1969 |
Gay Rights - Stonewall Riot |
| 1969 |
Humans on Moon - Neil Armstrong |
| 1970 |
LCD |
| 1972 |
Compact Disk - RCA |
| 1972 |
Video Disk |
| 1972 |
Prozac |
| 1973 |
Vietnam War Ends |
| 1974 |
Gerald Ford - President |
| 1975 |
VCR & VHS |
| 1976 |
Jimmy Carter - President |
| 1976 |
String Theory - Thomas Kibble |
| 1981 |
Ronald Regan - President |
| 1982 |
Permanent Artificial Heart - Dr. Barney Clark, UT |