Counting Thread

[Exolt (the guy from black ops 3)]

[somerandomguy3124 (Blue-Lou)]

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

[WestRover (Annie)]

1953

[somerandomguy3124 (Blue-Lou)]

1954

I’m just going to start copy pasting the lyrics for We didn’t start the fire for the years from now.

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, “Rock Around the Clock”

[chiefsenionenlisteda (chiefsenionenlistedadvisorofcm)]

1955
Federal Republic of West Germany becomes a sovereign state, and the Soviet Union and seven East European countries sign the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense treaty.

[kerek]

1956
Marilyn Monroe marries her third husband Arthur Miller, hopefully it doesn’t last long so we all have a shot.

[unknown920 (FXF/Tristan Quilt)]

• The first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne’s 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It is decommissioned on March 3, 1980.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is enacted, establishing the United States Commission on Civil Rights. It is the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

• The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time

• The Mackinac Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge between anchorages at this time, opens in the United States, to connect Michigan’s two peninsulas
  

  

• SPACE RACE!
  The Soviet Union launches the first (artificial) satellite into space, Sputnik 1.
  

  
  
  Soon after, Sputnik 2 is launched, with the first animal to orbit the Earth, a dog named Laika, on board. There is no technology available to return her to Earth. She dies :<.
  
  

• Other than the !SPACE RACE! happening, this year was a bit slow (if you ignore the disasters that kill people). Here’s the painting The Alarm Clock by Diego Rivera
  

  

[somerandomguy3124 (Blue-Lou)]

1958

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

[XCatCreeperX]

1959. Alaska is admitted as the 49th US state.
      Also my mic wasn’t dead, it just has a faulty indication light.

[somerandomguy3124 (Blue-Lou)]

U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

[XCatCreeperX]

1961. April 12, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once before parachuting to the ground.

Also, new profile pic.

[NyoomVoyager (Nyoom)]

1962. The first Kmart; Walmart; and Target open

Silent Spring is first published as a serial

Watson, Crick, Wilkins, Pauling, and Steinbeck all win Nobel Prizes in their respective fields

[somerandomguy3124 (Blue-Lou)]

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

[chiefsenionenlisteda (chiefsenionenlistedadvisorofcm)]

1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law.

[Oh_God_Help_Me (Zhu Cijue)]

The funi number is coming

[chiefsenionenlisteda (chiefsenionenlistedadvisorofcm)]

1966
O.o

[WestRover (Annie)]

1967

woag

[drajesss]

1968

Apollo 8 made it to moon!

[imcope]

1969

heh,69.

[WestRover (Annie)]

1970
uh… The US performs a nuclear test at a Nevada Test Site.