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The republicans win control of both houses of Congress in November elections.
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He announces the first Levittown.
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Truman orders end to segregation in armed forces.
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Minimum wages raised for 45 to 70 cents an hour.
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Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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Remington Rand unveils UNIVAC, the first electronic digital computer to be marketed commercially.
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Inaugurates television news show See It Now.
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They choose the golden arches design for its hamburger shops.
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They order schools desegregated in Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka.
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He reports success of antipolio vaccine.
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They begin boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, bus company.
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He signs legislation creating the interstate highway system.
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Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstruction.
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Confesses to cheating on television quiz show Twenty-One.
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African American college students stage sit in in Greensburor, North Carolina.
