Salk polio vaccine
1955 · Event
Jonas Salk's vaccine begins to eliminate paralytic polio from the wealthy world.
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- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Korean War (1950)