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The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 and ended on July 27, 1953. Korea split into North Korea and South Korea 2 years before the War started. They both wanted to unify Korea under its own form of government. It started when about 75,000 North Korean Army soldiers crossed the 38th parallel and invaded non communist South Korea. The UN helped South Korea and China helped North Korea. In the end nobody really won the war. -
Was the first computer commercial business application -
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson -
Stalin suffered a stroke which caused his to pass away at the age 74 -
Racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, prompting a boycott that would lead to the declaration that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional by a federal court. -
U.S. Congress approves the first civil rights bill since reconstruction with additional protection of voting rights. -
Alaska became the 49th state then Hawaii became the 50th state on August 21, 1959
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John F Kennedy becomes the 35th president -
The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba is repulsed by Cuban forces in an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro. -
An American U-2 spy plane flied over Cuba and captured pictures of long range Soviet missiles in Cuba. The United States refused to allow this and, after thirteen tense days and many secret negotiations, the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missiles. -
In Dallas, Texas President Kennedy was shot by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Two days later, Oswald was killed on live national television by Jack Ruby while being transported in police custody. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson wins his first presidential election with a victory over Barry M. Goldwater from Arizona. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson orders the continuous bombing of North Vietnam below the 20th parallel.
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The first Super Bowl was held in Los Angeles between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs with Green Bay winning 35-10. Over fifty one million people watch on television. -
The Senate approves a Constitutional Amendment, the 26th, that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18. -
The Watergate crisis begins when four men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. on the same day that Okinawa is returned from U.S. control back to Japan.
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The United States Supreme Court rules in Roe vs. Wade that a woman can not be prevented by a state in having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy. -
The Watergate cover up trials of Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman are completed; all are found guilty of the charges.
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Tax cut legislation proposed by President Ronald Reagan is passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress. It would reduce taxes by $750 billion over the next five years. -
The highest unemployment rate since 1940 is recorded at 10.4%. By the end of November, over eleven million people would be unemployed. -
President Ronald Reagan wins reelection over Walter F. Mondale,
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Martin Luther King Day is officially observed for the first time as a federal holiday in the United States. This is a different date from Martin Luther king date. Martin Luther king day is January 17 -
President Bush became the 41th president from 1989-1993
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