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popular culture - events| 1801 | USA | Frontier culture evolves in the western USA. Forms of entertainment – logrolling, barbecuing, whiskey drinking, gambling on horses or card playing, hunting, shooting, and dancing country reels and jigs – reflect the character of the frontier. | | 1853 | UK | Tighter licensing laws in Scotland make pubs close at 11 p.m. and all day on Sunday. Illicit stills proliferate as a result. | | 1923 | | The Charleston and the Foxtrot emerge as popular dances in the USA. | | 1943 | USA | Jive, a faster, more danceable version of jazz, emerges as a popular musical style. | | 1943 | USA | Nationwide salvage drives in the USA collect 255,513 tons of tin cans, 6 million tons of waste paper, and 26 million tons of iron and steel scrap. | | 14 January 1954 | USA | The US actor Marilyn Monroe is married for a second time, to US baseball star Joe DiMaggio; in October, she sues for divorce. | | 18 July 1955 | USA | Disneyland, created by Walt Disney, opens in Anaheim, California. It is the first theme park in the world. | | 29 June 1956 | USA | The US actor Marilyn Monroe marries the US playwright Arthur Miller; this is her third marriage. They divorce in 1961. | | 1965 | USA | The beat poet Allen Ginsberg coins the term ‘flower power’ for the antiwar, alternative lifestyle attitudes of the 1960s. | | 1965 | USA | Ex-Harvard lecturer Timothy Leary writes The Psychedelic Reader and coins the phrase ‘Tune in, turn on, drop out’ to describe the experience of using the hallucinogenic drug LSD. | | 6 September 1965 | USA | The US newspaper the San Francisco Examiner is the first to observe the birth of the hippie movement by noting that the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, California has become ‘a hip hangout’ for beatniks. | | 1984 | USA, UK | The Yuppie Handbook confirms ‘Yuppie’ (standing for ‘young urban (or upwardly mobile) professional’) as a label for the attitudes and lifestyle of an affluent social group with an aspirational lifestyle, and as an icon of the 1980s in Britain and the USA. | | 1989 | UK | Sales of compact discs overtake vinyl LPs for the first time in Britain. |
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