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The year UCLA Medical Center opened was busy around the world. Many exciting events shaped the way the nation perceived politics, civil rights, medical research and pop culture. Do you remember...
President: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice President: Richard M. Nixon
U.S. Population: 165,931,202
Global Population: 2.8 billion
- President Eisenhower has a coronary thrombosis in Denver.
- Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
- The Soviet Union and seven other Eastern European nations sign the Warsaw Pact.
- The corticosteroid prednisone is developed.
- Hugo Theorell of Sweden is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on oxidation enzymes.
- Dr. Jonas Salk introduces the polio vaccine.
- Severo Ochoa at NYU synthesizes DNA- and RNA-like molecules.
- Physicist Albert Einstein dies at the age of 76.
- The Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees to win the World Series.
- Syracuse defeats the Fort Wayne Pistons to win the NBA Championship.
- The Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.
- "Sugar" Ray Robinson wins world boxing championship
- "Marty" wins Best Picture.
- "Gunsmoke," "The Lawrence Welk Show," "The Honeymooners," "The Mickey Mouse Club," and "Captain Kangaroo" debut on television.
- Film star James Dean is killed in a car crash.
- Ray Kroc starts first fast food chain, McDonalds Corporation.
- "Scrabble" debuts on board game market.
- Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
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