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Student Non-violence Cordinating Committee provided a place for young blacks in the civil rights movement. founded at Shaw University
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Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights act
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John F. Kennedy is elected President but wins by 119,000 votes!!!! WOW!!
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the Food and Drug Administration approves of first birth control pill
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president kennedy starts the $17 billion nuclear missle program, increases military and in Indochina, and announces Peace corps
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US invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and the mission is an epic fail!!!
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East Germany constructs the Berlin wall communist East with Democratic West
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US begins underground Nuclera testing
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John Glenn fly's into space aboard the Friendship orbiting the globe three times!!!!!
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in the case of Engel vs Vitale the supreme court rules against prayer in school
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Soviets build missle bases in Cuba. President Kennedy orders a naval blockade to prevent missles from entering Cuba
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US and USSR agree to ban any atmospheric nuclear testing.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gives his famous speech "I Have A Dream"
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Kennedy is assinated making Lyndon Johnson President number 37!!!
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Beatles release their hit single "i wanna hold your hand" and Americans LOVE IT!!!!
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US and USSR and UK sign the outer space treaty which banned placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit, on the moon, or in any other location in outerspace for military purposes
