Music - Elvis Presley was the most popular artist.
New cars were about $1,500 and the cost for college was about $600. Average income was $3,216.
McCarthy communist witch hunt, Churchill elected back into office, Polio vaccine, DNA structure discovered, cigarettes cause cancer, Montgomery bus boycott, Launch of Sputnik - space age. NASA founded, Castro becomes dictator of Cuba, Brown vs. the board of education of Topeka, Kansas (started the process of desegregation), 22nd amendment was made so the president could only have 2 terms.
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