(1952) Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened; first intensive care facility in nation opened at Johns Hopkins Hospital
(1954) St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore, became American League Orioles; University of Maryland first university to integrate below Mason-Dixon Line
(1955) Desegragation of public schools began
(1957) Baltimore Harbor Tunnel opened
(1958 and 1959) Baltimore Colts National Football League champions
(1963) Race riots occurred in Cambridge
(1967) Thurgood Marshall became first African-American Justice of Supreme Court; rioting and demonstrations in Cambridge resulted in two blocks of black district destroyed by fire
(1968) Rioting occurred in Baltimore and Washington, D. C. following Dr. Martin Luther King assassination
(1969) Spiro Agnew elected U. S. Vice President
(1970) Baltimore held first city fair; Baltimore Orioles won World Series
(1973) Maryland adopted state lottery; Spiro Agnew resigned vice-presidency
(1974) Both houses of General Assembly elected on basis of equal representation by population
(1979) Daniel Nathans, Hamilton Smith of Johns Hopkins Hospital won Nobel Prizes for medicine
(1980) Harbor Place in Baltimore opened
(1992) Baseball stadium, Camden Yards, opened downtown Baltimore
(1995) Annapolis celebrated 300-year anniversary as Maryland's capital
(1998) Middle East Peace Talks held at Wye River Conference Center
2000's
(2004) Maryland celebrated Flag Centennial
(2006) Maryland had lowest poverty rate in US
(2007) Nation's first Living Wage law enacted in Maryland; Middle East Peace Conference held at U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis
(2008) Walking became official state exercise; Maryland first state to name offical state exercise
