War in Korea

Credit Card system Is introduced in US

Mass production ofcomputers began

First organ transplanttakes place

President Truman confirmedHydrogen Bomb Programme

Miss World Competition begins

Rock and rollbecomes popular

The still camera isgiven a built-in flash

Color televisions start in the US

Dresses without waistlinesare introduced

Dwight Eisenhoweris elected president

Churchill became UKprime minister

Food rationingended

Clean Air Act of1952 passed

Givenchy showed his first collection in Paris

Witch hunt hearings took place in the US

DNA is discovered

Queen Elizabeth II crowned

Mount Everest is conqueredby Hillary and Tensing

A new regime took over in Russia when Stalin died

Coco Chanel reopenedher Paris fashion salon after a long closure

The four minute mile is broken by Britain's Roger Bannister

Segregation is made illegal in the US

Over half of US homeshave television sets

DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) insect repellent developed.

Felt-tip pen introducedin England

James Dean diesin a car accident

Civil Rights campaignstarts in US

Warsaw Pact Agreementis signed

Bill Haley’s “RockAround the Clock”rocks around theworld

Velcro is introduced to the public

Elvis Presley becomesvery popular after filming“Love Me Tender”

First hard disk drive introduced

Prince Rainier III ofMonaco married filmstar Grace Kelly

The Suez Canal was nationalized and control taken from Britain and France

Sputnik I goes into orbit

Lasers aredeveloped

Dr. Seuss publishesThe Cat in the Hat

European EconomicCommunity established

Laika becomes the first living animalto enter orbit

Lego bricks areintroduced

NASA is founded

Boris Pasternak refusesThe Nobel Prize

Hula Hoops becomepopular

Stereo LP recordsare first sold

“Sound of Music”opens on Broadway

Barbie dollsare invented

Alaska and Hawaiibecome US states

Microchip is invented

First Daytona 500Stock Car race