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Was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers
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Was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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After Rosa’s trial upon the advice of her attorneys, Rosa deiced not to pay the fourteen dollars fine or the court cost(Reference Library of Black America).
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Ended bus segregation.
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On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs making threats to lynch.
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The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
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Was during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace.
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Was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
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Octobor 18-29, 1962.
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King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was confined after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign, a planned non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference against racial segregation by Birmingham's city government and downtown retailers.
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The world was revolutionized by a major protest of over 250,000 participants. the protesters met to form the largest gathering of people to that date.