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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive.
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive
  8. China invades Tibet with 40,000 People’s Liberation Army troops, preparing to incorporate it into Chinese territory
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive
  8. China invades Tibet with 40,000 People’s Liberation Army troops, preparing to incorporate it into Chinese territory
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Sorry sorry, triple post, the board isn’t working for me :frowning:

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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive
  8. China invades Tibet with 40,000 People’s Liberation Army troops, preparing to incorporate it into Chinese territory
  9. The Mattachine Society is founded by Harry Hay. One of the first gay rights organizations.
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive
  8. China invades Tibet with 40,000 People’s Liberation Army troops, preparing to incorporate it into Chinese territory
  9. The Mattachine Society is founded by Harry Hay. One of the first gay rights organizations.
  10. St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive
  8. China invades Tibet with 40,000 People’s Liberation Army troops, preparing to incorporate it into Chinese territory
  9. St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  10. The Mauna Loa volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii, starts erupting.

I deleted #9, since it duplicated #6.

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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive
  8. China invades Tibet with 40,000 People’s Liberation Army troops, preparing to incorporate it into Chinese territory
  9. St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  10. The Mauna Loa volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii, starts erupting.
  11. George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984, dies at the age of 46.
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive
  8. China invades Tibet with 40,000 People’s Liberation Army troops, preparing to incorporate it into Chinese territory
  9. St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  10. The Mauna Loa volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii, starts erupting.
  11. George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984, dies at the age of 46.
  12. Senator Joe McCarthy delivered a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, WV, blaming failures in American foreign policy on Communist infiltration of the U.S. government
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News-makers of 1950

  1. Accused communist spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.
  2. The Korean War breaks out as North invades South.
  3. Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.
  4. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
  5. A group of men rob the Brink’s Building in Boston and steal over two and a half million dollars.
  6. The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles, California, as the first gay-liberation organization.
  7. Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive
  8. China invades Tibet with 40,000 People’s Liberation Army troops, preparing to incorporate it into Chinese territory
  9. St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  10. The Mauna Loa volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii, starts erupting.
  11. George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984, dies at the age of 46.
  12. Senator Joe McCarthy delivered a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, WV, blaming failures in American foreign policy on Communist infiltration of the U.S. government
  13. First use of a credit card, a Diners Club card (at a restaurant in NYC)

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Newsmakers of 1920

  1. Warren G. Harding is elected President of the United States in the first American presidential election in which women may vote
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Newsmakers of 1920

  1. Warren G. Harding is elected President of the United States in the first American presidential election in which women may vote
    2, Charles Lindberg pilots the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris, becoming the first pilot to solo a nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
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Newsmakers of 1920

  1. Warren G. Harding is elected President of the United States in the first American presidential election in which women may vote
    2, Charles Lindberg pilots the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris, becoming the first pilot to solo a nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
  2. The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
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Newsmakers of 1920

  1. Warren G. Harding is elected President of the United States in the first American presidential election in which women may vote
    2, Charles Lindberg pilots the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris, becoming the first pilot to solo a nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
  2. The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
  3. The Eighteenth Amendment(Prohibition) takes effect.

Isn’t this supposed to be for just the year 1920 and not the whole *decade *? Lindberg’s flight would have been much more impressive (read: impossible) in '20 than it was in '27.

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Newsmakers of 1920

  1. Warren G. Harding is elected President of the United States in the first American presidential election in which women may vote
    2, Charles Lindberg pilots the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris, becoming the first pilot to solo a nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
  2. The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
  3. The Eighteenth Amendment(Prohibition) takes effect.
  4. Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.
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Newsmakers of 1920

  1. Warren G. Harding is elected President of the United States in the first American presidential election in which women may vote
    2, Charles Lindberg pilots the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris, becoming the first pilot to solo a nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
  2. The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
  3. The Eighteenth Amendment(Prohibition) takes effect.
  4. Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.
  5. The League of Nations was established