1952-1954
Theresa Rogers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961, and the last U.S. President to have been born in the 19th century.
Vaccine for Polio
Two polio vaccines, vaccines against poliomyelitis, are used throughout the world to provide immunity to poliovirus. One uses inactivated poliovirus and the other uses attenuated poliovirus.
England's New Queen
Elizabeth ll. 6th of February 1952-present. Is the queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, The Bahamas, and many others.
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano was an American professional boxer who held the world heavyweight title from September 23, 1952 to April 27, 1956
Liberace
Władziu Valentino Liberace, mononymously known as Liberace, was an American pianist and entertainer
George Santayana
George Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state
Georgy MaksimilianovichvMalenkov
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician and Communist Party leader. His family connections with Lenin speeded his promotion in the party, and in 1925 he was put in charge of the party records.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was the second President of Egypt, serving from 1956 until his death. A leader of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 against the monarchy,
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century
Winthrop Rockefeller
Winthrop Rockefeller was an American politician and philanthropist, who served as the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He was a third-generation member of the Rockefeller family.
Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella, nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player, primarily as a catcher. The Philadelphia native played for the Negro leagues and Mexican League for several seasons before moving into the minor leagues in 1946.
Communist Bloc
the Communist bloc. the former Soviet Union and the countries of eastern Europe which had Communist governments and were under Soviet influence, especially between the end of World War II and about 1990.
Roy Cohn
Roy Cohn was the advisor to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy Hearings on Communists in the movie industry and government.
Juan Peron
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician, who served three times as President of Argentina.
Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and of the 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory.
Dacron
Dacron was made out of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PETE or PET). PETE is recycled plastic number #1.
Dien Bien Phu Falls
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries
Rock around the clock
Rock Around the Clock" is a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C.Freedman and James E. Myerz (the latter under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight") in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Billy Haley & his comets in 1954 for American Decca. It was a number one single on both the US and UK charts and also re-entered the Uk singles chart in the 1960s and 1970s.