Understanding America and Her Enemies in Wartime
Protests Force South Korean President to Resign
Syngman Rhee, hardline anti-communist and pro-American, was president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960. Rhee's government was characterised by authoritarianism, limited economic development, and growing public opposition. After his opponent died,...
First Kidney Dialysis Shunt
https://youtu.be/xG82t_a3-i0 In March 1960 the first kidney dialysis shunt, developed by Dr. Belding H. Scribner, was planted in a kidney patient in Seattle Washington. The process, enabling ambulatory dialysis, first developed in the 1940s by Dr. Willem J. Kolff, had...
Thanksgiving Day Parade 1960
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