150-146: The Golden Spike
150: Whiskey Rebellion – President Washington mobilizes a federal army to put down an insurrection in western Pennsylvania ft. Historian, Lecturer at Robert Morris University, Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Revolution, and author of The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis, Brady J. Crytzer
149: Truck bombs kill 241 American servicemen in Beirut, Lebanon – Terrorist organization Islamic Jihad would claim responsibility
148: The first transcontinental railroad is completed in Promontory, Utah with a golden spike
147: In Selma, Alabama Civil Rights protestors make two attempts to the Edmund Pettis bridge on a march to Montgomery but are met with violent resistance by police forces injuring scores and killing one. A third attempt is successful.
146: Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine is approved for mass distribution by the FDA ft. Son of polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas Salk & Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Dr. Peter Salk
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