Students were protesting the conservative government of Miguel Ydigoras. They hold out hands from a lorry asking for food as they were expelled to China by Hong Kong authorities on May 28, The heavy smog, caused by coal-fired heating and burning gasoline in motor vehicles, claimed more than lives in Parents of students picket Glenfield Junior High School in Montclair, New Jersey, to dramatize their effort to improve education for the school's students, 90 percent of whom are African-American, in Montclair, New Jersey, prior to the school board's decision on August 22, to divide Glenfield's students among the wealthy suburb's three other high schools.
A workman removes a restroom sign at Montgomery Municipal Airport, on January 5, , in compliance with a federal court order banning segregation. However, city officials delayed plans to remove waiting room furniture and close toilets and water fountains. But they said these and the airport restaurant will be closed if there is a concerted integration attempt. A white girl follows an African-American girl down the slide at Thomas J. Semmes school in New Orleans during recess on Sept.
The children played together as the school went into its second day of integrated classes. It reads "Negroes! This community could become another ghetto. You owe it to your 'family' to buy in another community. Chief U. Marshal James McShane, left, and an unidentified marshal at right escort James Meredith, center with briefcase, to the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Mississippi, on October 2, Meredith, was the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi after integration.
Kennedy with daughter, Caroline, sailing off Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, in a photo. Kennedy International Airport , on May 29, A high wall of concrete blocks, topped with barbed wire, divides Sebastian Strasse in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany, on February 15, To the left is the American sector and beyond the wall to the right is the Russian sector. Dying Peter Fechter is carried away by East German border guards who shot him down when he tried to flee to the west in this August 17, photo.
Fechter was lying in no-man's land for 50 minutes before he was taken to a hospital where he died shortly after arrival.
The infield and outfield have been sodded and construction of the center field bleachers is underway. Fans and teammates rush onto court to congratulate Philadelphia Warriors Wilt Chamberlain in Hershey, Pennsylvania, after he scored his th point in a win over the New York Knickerbockers, on March 2, The record still stands, 50 years later.
Five thousand people stood shivering in Trafalgar Square in London, England, on February 25, at a rally organized by the British anti-war group Committee of The rising fireball of the Aztec nuclear detonation test, part of Operation Dominic, a series of over nuclear test explosions in Nevada and the Pacific in The Halloween festival in Anaheim, California, on October 20, Nearly everyone in town turned out to watch the parade, and thousands were on hand to watch the show that launched it at the Palma Stadium.
South African police beat women with clubs in Durban, South Africa, on on April 17, , when the women raided and set fire to a beer hall in protest of police action against their home brewing activities. Said to be the smallest television receiver in the world at the time, this tiny model was shown by the Japanese electronics industry at the international samples fair in Milan, Italy, on April 21, The picture is compared with a postage stamp only 4 centimeters wide.
A soldier of the West German Army Bundeswehr carries a woman to safety in Hamburg, Germany, on February 17, , after rescuing her from rising flood waters with an army rubber rescue craft. Teenagers play volleyball in Mongolia in March of We want to hear what you think about this article.
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December, The U. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Menu Skip to content. January 9, Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse In his 84 years, Thomas Edison acquired a record number of 1, patents singly or jointly and was the driving force behind such innovations as the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture cameras.
The automobile was first invented and perfected in Germany and France in the late s, though Americans quickly came to dominate the automotive industry in the first half of the twentieth century. Henry Ford innovated mass-production techniques that became standard, and Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, best known for his invention of the telephone, revolutionized communication as we know it. His interest in sound technology was deep-rooted and personal, as both his wife and mother were deaf.
Serbian-American engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current AC motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology.
In , Connecticut-born gun manufacturer Samuel Colt received a U. Colt founded a company to manufacture his revolving-cylinder pistol; however, sales were slow and the As you might expect for a technology so expansive and ever-changing, it is impossible to credit the invention of the internet to a single person.
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