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1946
President Truman proclaims end of World War II (combat ended in 1945 but the hostilities were considered over once war crime trials in 1946 ended)
1947
The V-2 rocket launched into space
1948
Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional
1949
President Truman establishes rocket test range at Cape Canaveral, Florida
1950
President Truman orders development of the hydrogen bomb in response to detonation of Soviet Union’s first atomic bomb in 1949. He sends U.S. military advisors to Vietnam to aid French forces
1951
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and sentenced to death
1952
Christine Jorgensen, a transsexual woman in Denmark, becomes the recipient of the first successful sexual reassignment operation
1954
President Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam
1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a stroke
1958
A 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia
1960
John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of The United States
1961
Astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
1963
President John F. Kennedy promises a Civil Rights Bill
1964
China becomes fifth nuclear power
1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes in the U.S. Senate 73-2