50s

The 50s

The Baby Boom

Color TV

Everest

DNA

First Organ transplanted

Social Rights

First Satellite into Space

Queen Isabel II

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The baby boom of the 50s is the result of the post-war era, which increased feelings of prosperity among the population, which made people feel again that they could give their children everything that the war had taken away.

Although it was not successful until about a decade later, the year 1954 marked the arrival of the first electronic color television that arrived on the market: the Westinghouse H840CK15. The first color issue from coast to coast also occurred in 1954 - specifically the day of the new year. The Rose Parade was broadcast by the NBC, who announced the future television broadcasting standard.

The first organ to be transplanted in human history was a kidney. The operation took place on December 23, 1954 at Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Ronald Herrick donated one of his kidneys to his identical twin brother, Richard. The experience acquired in this historical operation would provoke a revolution in transplant operations, saving countless lives in later decades.

The double helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, was discovered in 1953 by American geneticists James Watson and Francis Crick. This important discovery led to the creation of powerful new scientific techniques, such as genetic engineering, gene sequences and antibody development.

The Civil Rights Movement intended to end legalized racial segregation in the United States. The first lawsuit was against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, where the plaintiffs argued that the segregation of black children in the public school system was unconstitutional and had a detrimental effect on them.

The Soviet Union was the first world power to launch an artificial satellite into space. Sputnik 1 entered Earth's low orbit on October 4, 1957, unleashing a space race between the Soviet Union and the United States. Sputnik 1, only 23 inches in diameter, featured four external radio antennas to emit radio pulses to Earth. The satellite orbited the Earth 1,440 times during its 92-day mission.

On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne of the British monarchy. In addition, today, it is the largest landowner in the world and the longest-lived monarch in the history of the British monarchy.

The highest peak in the world proved difficult to reach - the British sent eight expedition groups in the years before 1953 to try to reach the summit of Mount Everest, but all failed. On May 29 of that year, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the top of the world. The feat was the symbolic domain of man over nature, and the news rumbled throughout the world.

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