26. Civil Rights Act outlaws segregation 1964

27. Berlin Wall falls 1989

28. Television debuts at New York World's Fair. 1939

29. Mao Tse-tung establishes People's Republic of China 1949

30. Lindbergh crosses Atlantic in first solo flight 5/20-21/27

31. Mass market personal computers launched 1977

32. World Wide Web revolutionizes Internet 1989

33. Scientists at Bell Labs invent transistor 1948

34. FDR launches New Deal 1933

35. Cuban Missile Crisis 10/16-28/62

36. Titanic sinks 4/14-15/12

37. Germany surrenders: V.E. Day celebrated. 5/7-8/45

38. Roe v. Wade decision legalizes abortion. 1/22/73

39. WW I ends with Germany's defeat. 11/11/18

40. First regular radio broadcasts 1909

41. Worldwide flu epidemic kills 20 million 1918

42. ENIAC becomes world's first computer. 1946

43. Regular TV broadcasting begins in U.S. 1941

44. Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color barrier. 1947

45. Israel achieves statehood. 5/14/48

46. Plastic invented: revolutionizes products, packaging. 1909

47. Rosa Parks/Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott 1955

48. Atomic bomb tested in New Mexico. 7/16/45

49. Apartheid ends in South Africa 1993

50. MLK gives "I Have A Dream" speech. 8/28/63