Vintage Memories That Make You Go AAH!
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, were sparked on April 29, 1992 when a predominately white jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King when he resisted arrest following a high-speed car chase.
The third day was punctuated […]
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Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat polio.
The first was developed by Jonas Salk, first tested in 1952, and announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955. It consists of an injected dose of inactivated (dead) poliovirus.
Thereafter, Albert Sabin produced an oral polio vaccine using attenuated poliovirus. Human trials of […]
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