People in History
The people behind the moments: leaders, scientists, explorers and ordinary people whose choices changed what came next.
1956
1956 · Sport
Don Larsen’s Perfect Game: No Hits, No Walks, No Baserunners
October 8, 19561955
1955 · Politics
Rosa Parks Is Arrested in Montgomery
December 1, 19551951
1951 · Art & Literature
The Ninth Street Show opens in New York
May 21, 19511951
1951 · Politics
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg receive death sentences
April 5, 19511950
1950 · Politics
Gunfire Outside Blair House: The Attempt on Truman’s Life
November 1, 19501949
1949 · Politics
Aurora Quezon is killed in an ambush
April 28, 19491949
1949 · Politics
Israel’s first elected assembly convenes
February 14, 19491948
1948 · Politics
UN mediator Folke Bernadotte is assassinated in Jerusalem
September 17, 19481948
1948 · Politics
Edvard Beneš resigns in Czechoslovakia
June 7, 19481948
1948 · Politics
American diplomat Thomas Wasson dies after a shooting in Jerusalem
May 23, 19481948
1948 · Politics
Chiang Kai-shek is inaugurated as president under China’s new constitution
May 20, 19481948
1948 · Music