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What is one photo that defines the year 1958?
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Explorer 1, the first successful American Satellite, was launched. 
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8446
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL100/exp1.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/explorer.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8446
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL100/exp1.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/explorer.html
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Always one with the history, thanks Danny
Bobby Fischer wins the US Chess Championship. People are still intrigued by him to this day.
http://images.dpchallenge.com/images_challenge/0-999/588/800/Copyrighted_Image_Reuse_Prohibited_430369.jpg
A quote from Unholy Book of Cultural Demise and Doom, also known as Wikipedia:
"February 21 – A peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment"
"February 21 – A peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment"
Nikita Khruchchev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union. This was a generational change. The Soviet Union becomes a less dangerous place to live. Here is his wikipedia page;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Nikita_Khruchchev_Colour.jpg/502px-Nikita_Khruchchev_Colour.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
BankAmericard (the precursor to Visa) and American Express Credit cards are introduced! 
source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Express
http://home3.americanexpress.com/corp/os/history/pop_card1958.asp
http://www.thehistoryof.net/history-of-credit-cards.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Express
http://home3.americanexpress.com/corp/os/history/pop_card1958.asp
http://www.thehistoryof.net/history-of-credit-cards.html
July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA is Born
The agency's mission statement will have faint echoes for Star Trek fans: "To improve life here, to extend life there, to find life beyond."
NASA's motto is: "For the benefit of all."
NASA's Office of Education motto is... "Shaping the Future: Launching New Endeavors to Inspire the Next Generation of Explorers."
The agency's mission statement will have faint echoes for Star Trek fans: "To improve life here, to extend life there, to find life beyond."
NASA's motto is: "For the benefit of all."
NASA's Office of Education motto is... "Shaping the Future: Launching New Endeavors to Inspire the Next Generation of Explorers."
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