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Elizabeth II becomes the Queen of England and the United Kingdom after the death of her father King George VI. The first Chevrolet Corvette prototype was completed. The Mau Mau Rebellion starts in Kenya. The iconic musical film “Singin’ In The Rain” premieres at Radio City Music Hall.
The Year 1954 Major News Events 70 Years Ago. Senator Joseph McCarthy is censured, bringing an end to his witch hunt of Communists; The First Indo-China War Ends; The Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Board of Education, stating that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional; Ellis Island in New York closes as a point of Immigration
Seventy years ago, two scientists had a flash of insight that changed the world. On February 28, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, the now-famous double helix.
Browse our archive of historical events by year including the dates of important, interesting and notable events from thousands of years of history.
For America’s journey into space, one of those first steps occurred 70 years ago, on July 24, 1950. On that date, the United States launched its first two-stage rocket, combining German and American technology, from a place on the Atlantic coast of central Florida called Cape Canaveral.
Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country. What they didn’t know was just how much or for how long. In that last wartime summer of...
The race to understand genetic inheritance began in 1869 when DNA was discovered and the following 70 years produced many important discoveries. But a crucial piece of the puzzle was missing....
Thirty-five years. But it was actually 35 years before that – fully 70 years ago this month – that the danger of carbon dioxide build-up in the atmosphere first travelled around the world.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, scientists established the International Geophysical Year (IGY), an international effort for a comprehensive study of the Earth, its poles, its atmosphere, and its interactions with the Sun.
Seventy years ago Thursday, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. To mark the anniversary, Melissa Block and Audie Cornish read from journalist John Hershey's ...