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June 23, 2022
Loving v. Virginia Landmark Court Case
Loving v. Virginia was a 1958 Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States.
With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and Black woman whose marriage was deemed illegal according to Virginia state law, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that “anti-miscegenation” statutes were unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.
Source: history.com
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June 20, 2022
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Following closely after the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik, the act abolished the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and transferred its activities and resources to NASA.
The Act also created a Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, for the purpose of coordinating civilian and military space applications, and keeping NASA and the Department of Defense “fully and currently informed” of each other’s space activities.
Source: Wikipedia
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June 16, 2022
US Marines Sent To Lebanon
In July 1958 President Eisenhower ordered 5,000 US Marines to Lebanon, at the request of that country’s president, to face a perceived threat by Muslim rebels and help end a short-lived civil war.
Eisenhower justified his decision to send troops to the region on the basis that it was the “birthplace of three great religions,” as well as having “two-thirds of the presently known oil deposits.”
The American intervention lasted for three months until President Camille Chamoun completed his term as president of Lebanon.
American and Lebanese government forces successfully occupied the Port of Beirut and Beirut International Airport. With the crisis over, the United States withdrew.
Source: Wikipedia
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June 13, 2022
Cuban Rebels Capture US Sailors & Marines
In June 1958, Cuban rebel forces captured 29 Sailors and Marines as they returned to Guantamano from leave in Cuba. The hostages were detained in the hills for 22 days, then released .
Source: Naval Technology
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June 9, 2022
Execution of Hungarian Communist Leader
Imre Nagy served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People’s Republic from 1953 to 1955.
In 1956 Nagy. a committed communist, became leader of the Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet-backed government.
Sentenced to death, Nagy was executed in June 1958.
Source: Wikipedia
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June 6, 2022
Nuclear Waste in Marshall Islands
The Runit Dome (aka Cactus Dome) is a 377 foot X 18 inch dome of radioactive debris, entombed in concrete, that stems from nuclear tests conducted in the Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands by the United States between 1946 and 1958.
From 1977 to 1980, loose waste and topsoil debris scraped off from six different islands in the Enewetak Atoll was transported here, mixed with concrete, and stored in the nuclear blast crater of the May 1958 Cactus test.
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June 2, 2022
De Gaulle Returns to Power
In May 1958 during the turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) Charles de Gaulle returned to power after a twelve-year absence.
De Gaulle’s newly formed cabinet was approved by the National Assembly by 329 votes against 224, while he was granted the power to govern by ordinances for a six-month period as well as the task to draft a new Constitution.
A decisive shift in the balance of power in French civil-military relations in 1958 with its threat of force was the main immediate factor in the return of de Gaulle to power in France.
Source: Wikipedia
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May 30, 2022
Memorial To Americans St, Paul’s London
Source: Wikipedia
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May 26, 2022
Fidel Castro Behind Rebel Lines in Cuba
Believing support for the revolution was waning, Cuba’s president Fulgencio Batista called for a major military offensive against Fidel Castro‘s rebels in the Sierra Maestra mountains in the summer of 1958.
But the rebels turned back the offensive, forcing the army to withdraw.
With international media giving favorable press coverage to the revolutionaries, the United States began to withdraw support for Batista’s government, which it had previously backed due to the dictator’s anti-communist stance.
Source: History.com
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May 23, 2022
U.S. plan to explore space near the moon
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union began to build powerful new rockets—which they would eventually use to send humans into space and, ultimately, to the moon.
In 1958 NASA launched Project Mercury with three specific goals:
launch an American into orbit around Earthinvestigate the human body’s ability to tolerate spaceflightbring both the spacecraft and astronaut home safety the unstated goal: Accomplish all of this before the SovietsSource: NASA
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