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which officailly ends World War 2
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On October 22, 1952 Jonas Salk developed and first tested the polio vaccine.
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When Rosa Parks refused on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 1955, to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit, it is unlikely that she fully realized the forces she had set into motion and the controversy that would soon swirl around her.
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It made its debut on October 1st, 1958, with an annual fee of $6... intentionally $1 more than Diners Club. Because the goal was to position the American Express as the premium charge card. And low and behold, they have certainly stuck by that same marketing strategy of status and exclusivity ever since.Within a short period of time, only five years later, there were over a million people carrying Amex charge cards and more than 85,000 merchants across the globe accepted it for payment.
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