March 12, 1952 — Eisenhower announces his candidacy for President of the USA
Eisenhower didn’t originally want to run for President. He’d been repeatedly urged to by Harry Truman over the previous years,...
May 10, 2018
Politics & War
November 1, 1952 — The first full test of a Hydrogen bomb is made
The bomb was code-named “Ivy Mike”. It was the first test of the Teller-Ulam bomb design, which produced yield estimated...
May 4, 2018
April 13, 1953 — The CIA launches the MK-ULTRA project
CIA director Allen Dulles ordered the creation of the MKUltra project intending it to create techniques to fight what was...
April 28, 2018
June 2, 1953 — Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Technically, Elizabeth Windsor became the Queen of England as soon as her father, King George VI died on February 2...
April 24, 2018
June 17, 1953 — The East German Uprising peaks
Beginning as a strike by 300 construction workers in East Berlin on June 16, 1953, what would become known as...
April 14, 2018
June 19, 1953 — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed
Julius and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg were a married couple from New York City. Of Jewish-American origin, the two had met...
April 9, 2018
September 1, 1953 — The Doomsday Clock is set at two minutes to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications in the world. Its first...
April 4, 2018
May 7, 1954 — Dien Bien Phu falls
The fall of Dien Bien Phu marked the unofficial end of French Indo-China. The French Far East Expeditionary Corps was...
March 24, 2018
June 9, 1954 — Joseph Welch stops Joseph McCarthy in his tracks
Joseph McCarthy had been hunting the Reds under America’s beds for years when he turned his attention to the Army...
March 14, 2018
June 23, 1956 — Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes President of Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser was a colonel in the Egyptian army who wasn’t satisfied with the status quo of post-colonial Egypt....
February 21, 2018
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