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Over 1,400 scientists from 73 nations attend first United Nations International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy which is held in Geneva, Switzerland
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Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik I pushing the US to create NASA
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John F. Kennedy is inaugurated
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The US, Great Britain, and Soviet Union sign Limited Test Ban Treaty prohibiting atmospheric, underwater, and outer space nuclear tests.
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president
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The first large power blackout covers the northeast US
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Oil is discovered on the North Slope of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay
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President Johnson signs the National Environmental Policy Act
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Richard Nixon becomes president
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An oil platform near Santa Barbara, California suffers a blowout releasing 200,000 gallons of oil creating an 800 square mile oil spill.
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The US, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and forty-five other nations sign the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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Gerald Ford becomes president
