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November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor, and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea. November 18 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam. November 20 – The funeral of longtime House Speaker Sam Rayburn is held in Washington, D.C.
1946 – United States Atomic Energy Act of 1946. 1946 – President's Committee on Civil Rights. 1946 – Philippines regain independence from the U.S. 1946 – Republicans take control of Congress for the first time in 16 years. 1947 – Presidential Succession Act.
Doom is a first-person shooter video game and a reboot of the Doom franchise released on May 13, 2016. Players take the role of an unnamed space marine who battles demonic forces within an energy-mining facility on Mars and in Hell. The game also has an online multiplayer mode and a level editor. Developer id Software and co-developers took ...
In 1715, after the Calvert family had renounced Catholicism and embraced Anglicanism, the colony reverted back to a proprietary form of government. United States - Colonization, Revolution, Constitution: When Columbus arrived, he found the New World inhabited by peoples who in all likelihood had originally come from the continent of Asia.
Books. The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press. Conceived in the 1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-editorship of historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward, the series has been edited by David M. Kennedy since 1999.
June 27, 1945 208 days Virginia Harry S. Truman – Joseph Grew (1880–1965) Independent – June 28, 1945 July 3, 1945 5 days New Hampshire: 49 James F. Byrnes (1882–1972) Democratic – July 3, 1945 January 21, 1947 1 year, 202 days South Carolina 50 George C. Marshall (1880–1959) Independent – January 21, 1947 January 20, 1949
History of the United States (1964–1980) For the United States , 1945–1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states ; the Cold War had begun.
