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Minimum Wage increases from .75 cents per hour to 1 dollar
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Jonas Salk creates a vaccine for Polio.
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Disneyland is established.
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She incites Montgomery bus Boycott
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he goal of the 1957 Civil Rights Act was to ensure that all Americans could exercise their right to vote.
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NASA created many jobs for the economy. NASA also selects the first seven military pilots to become the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts of the United States.
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Alaska and Hawaii enter the United States.
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John F. Kennedy is elected president
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President Kennedy is assassinated.
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USA enters Vietnam War
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Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
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Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin land on the moon. The U.S. economy spends a lot of money to make this happen.
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18 year olds can vote.
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Bill Gates founded Microsoft, which in time dominated the home computer operating system market.
