PRESENTATION OUTLINE
WE TOTALLY STARTED THE FIRE
Little Rock, Arkansas is the site of an anti-integration standoff at Little Rock Central High School. The Little Rock Nine
Boris Pasternak, the Russian author, publishes his novel Doctor Zhivago.
Mickey Mantle spent his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star.
Jack Kerouac publishes his first novel in seven years, On the Road.
Sputnik becomes the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4th, 1957, marking the start of the space race.
Chou En-Lai, Premier of the People's Republic of China, survives an assassination attempt on the charter airliner Kashmir Princess.
The Bridge on the River Kwai, an adaptation of a the 1954 novel, is released and receives seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention.
Charles de Gaulle is elected first president of the French Fifth Republic following the Algerian Crisis.
California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California and become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants.
Charles Starkweather Homicide: Starkweather's murder spree, in which he kills eleven people between January 25 and 29 before being caught in a massive manhunt in Douglas, Wyoming, captures the attention of Americans.
Children of Thalidomide: Many pregnant women taking the drug Thalidomide had children born with congenital birth defects.
Bill Clinton, OJ Simpson,jet fuel, steel beams, something's missin'
Terantino, Pulp Fiction, and a whole lot of addiction
Adderall, Mary Jane, dropping acid, crack cocaine
Meninism is a joke, Oscars and Dicaprio
